I've got a colour TV :D

[YahudaMoon]

My 22" colour TV went green and black about 2 year back and I never got round to doing anything about it.

Anyway a friend gave me a tiny 14" colour TV a few week back, though I was thinking is the tiny 14" colour screen going to be better over the larger 22" green screen. Mmm ?

So this evening I decided to swap them over, and I'm very happy. Apart from the bright colours making my eyes water I have got over the small screen problem by pulling my chair up 12 ft closer to the TV making the screen size appear the same size as my old green 22" TV while I'm viewing Cops With Cameras

 

[marshmella]

Has it got one of those new fangled gadgets, er, what do you call it oh yeah ..a remote control?

 

[levad]

My first TV had an improvised remote control. It was a snooker cue, you had to have a steady hand to poke the buttons just right.

 

[Red Light]

Mine has a voice activated remote control. "Hey, would you mind switching the channel over for me and getting me a beer?"

 

[biggs682]

colour tv's what ever next

 

[ColinJ]

Has it got one of those new fangled gadgets, er, what do you call it oh yeah ..a remote control?

He doesn't need one - he is sitting close enough to use the controls on the set!

 

[marshmella]

Thats given me an idea Col, next time me remote needs new batteries i'll save money by just pushing the sofa closer to the set, cheers mate.

 

[ColinJ]

My first colour TV didn't have a remote control. A week after I bought mine, a mate went out and bought a similar set but with a remote and I thought it was the height of laziness! In those days we only had BBC1, BBC2 and ITV so we didn't exactly do a lot of channel hopping!

 

[postman]

Once my girls leave home for Uni.The Telly is going .We have Virgin cable xl crap total crap.Half of the progs are commercials.A total waste of money.

 

[YahudaMoon]

He doesn't need one - he is sitting close enough to use the controls on the set!

Double bonus

 

[MontyVeda]

My first colour TV didn't have a remote control. A week after I bought mine, a mate went out and bought a similar set but with a remote and I thought it was the height of laziness! In those days we only had BBC1, BBC2 and ITV so we didn't exactly do a lot of channel hopping!

MY nana and granddad were the first people i knew with a remote control... granddad insisted the RC unit should be kept on top of the TV for safe keeping. He was either a complete buffoon or comedic genius.

 

[marshmella]

The first people I knew with a remote control were in about 1978 - my first real girlfriend's parents. It wasn't wireless though. It apparently cost about the same as a small family car and it was attached to their TV by a cable. They used to have two Jack Russells who would charge around and regularly knock it off onto the flagged floor and although it was held together with bits of sellotape (duct tape and cable ties not having been invented then) it still worked very well. Because their house was on the wrong side of the hill, they could only get BBC1 and BBC2.

BBC1 and BBC2? Makes you wonder why we bothered having a television at all. Should just have stuck with the wireless.

 

[ColinJ]

BBC1 and BBC2? Makes you wonder why we bothered having a television at all. Should just have stuck with the wireless.

I remember being very excited when BBC2 started because up until then it was just BBC1 and ITV! They had some good non-mainstream programmes on BBC2 at the time.

 

[marshmella]

I remember being very excited when BBC2 started because up until then it was just BBC1 and ITV! They had some good non-mainstream programmes on BBC2 at the time.

i remember getting excited when channel 4 started in 1982, seemed a novelty having an extra button to press.