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It turns out, if it doesn't have a TV tuner then they aren't allowed to call it a television. So if the label actually says "TV" instead of "monitor" then it has to have a TV tuner, and presumably a way to connect the antenna.
so CCTV is a misnomer
It's been my observation that as TVs got smarter, people have gotten dumber. Correlation or coincidence? Only The Shadow knows.
I've got a smart TV, in my livingroom it's now about 8 years old, but within 3 years of purchase its smarts stopped getting updated and started sliding back down the evolutionary scale (compatability issues with some modern streaming services) until I gave up on its internal smarts and bought an Amazon "FireTV Stick" to plug into one of its HDMI ports. That bypassed the TV's compatability issues with modern streaming standards, but the disadvantage was having to use a separate remote control.
The FireTV Stick worked well until about 4 years later when it too stopped getting its firmware upgraded and its remote was beginning to develop button fatigue, but it was easily replaceable with a newer version FireTV Stick. The old FireTV Stick has now been moved to my bedroom's dumb TV that is 15 years old, and continues to work well enough for the limited use it gets up there.
My current TV in my livingroom is a nice 42" (perfect size for my room and seating arrangement) but it's just "FullHD" (1080p) and I've been considering an "UltraHD" (4K) and have recently purchased (at significant holiday savings) the newest version of the FireTV Stick that handles 4K streaming, just in case the current FireTV Stick kicks the bucket, and to have on hand if/when I get a 4K TV.
Complaint: Why did I feel compelled to say "just FullHD"? Have we already forgotten how incredible 1080p resolution is compared to the TVs of the last century?
Remember when a 42" TV was housed in a 5 foot square 3 foot deep box that projected a 520 line image, upward from a small cathode ray tube via a mirror onto a frosted 42" screen facing the viewer, still had convergence issues(see image below), was very dim, low contrast, and blurry at that screen size & resolution, weighed as much as a refrigerator, and cost as much as an automobile? Ah, the good old days.
And when, in the good old days, did a TV last 15 years without requiring professional image tweaking or malfunction repair service?
Example of a really bad convergence issue:
When our last TV stopped working (Vizio televisions don’t last 12 years plus they can’t call it a television anyway), it was a time that I didn’t think I should spend any money. But it was also a time that we needed a new TV. So we loaded up the truck and we moved to Beverly.
We actually went to Costco… in a car... and I bought the lowest cost TV I could find. It was a 43 inch 1080P Samsung model and it had very little of what one would call “features”. I think the features include the ability to change volume and change the channel (oh it has a TV tuner), and maybe some other settings that don’t actually matter. The “Smart” functions are there but the only one they update is the one that tells Samsung what you’re doing.
Like me, it was the most basic model one could find but if you look at it from the right angle, it looks like the more expensive models. And it is still working now, several years later. It just so happens that the one good viewing angle this TV has is the angle we have when seated in front of it. And the sound doesn’t matter because it’s connected to my aging but still great sounding Denon receiver. One day I will get a new receiver and think to myself, “this isn’t going to last 12 years either”. But the TV might.
...the last television I had blew up in 2002 or 2003 (too long ago to remember the actual year). It was one (CRT model) I got at a hotel sale with that had a semi programmable push button changer and remote. Lasted about 5 years.
I haven't replaced it since even though I had offers of free ones including a 42" flat screen (that would have taken up a large portion of one wall in my current studio).
Part of the decision was cable providers which charged a big fee ro get decent things to watch and often played the old "bait & switch" game. . The other part was paying that bill only to be assaulted by adverts every 10 minutes of so (often for about 4 to 5 minutes at a time). I eventually cancelled my cable subscription a little over year before the television expired, after they hit me with another surprise bait & switch.
Now, nearly a quarter of a century later, I really don't miss it much. Most of what is in "free television" is rubbish like reality shows conspiracy theory programmes, and vapid sitcoms. To get the dozen or so channels I'd actually watch via cable tends to involve a premium price in addition to paying for the the 800+ channels of rubbish I have little to no interest in.
So basically, a big expense saved and a major distraction eliminated which translates more time for Daz, my writing, and other important things.. Not a bad trade-off.
The interesting part is I grew up in the 1950s-60s "television" era when the worst punishment one could imagine was not being able to watch for a week..
My TV came in today. I set it up and it works with my antenna. It is now close to my bed time so I am going to go to bed. I already turned off the tv.
It's probably time to get out of bed. The TV has blown up by now. It might be better to go outside and play.
i want to but it is getting into mosquito season and they love me. I don't like that.
My wife & I are both safe while my younger daughter is within 50ft of us. She's food of choice for mosquitos, horseflies, ticks and fleas. When she's not there I become food of choice for horseflies while my wife gets the rest.
Our main TV in the living room is a 30" 14yo Samsung 'HD ready' tv, that defaults to analogue when first turned on, and is only HD ready in that if a HD signal goes in to the single HDMI port, it will display it. There is no HD tuner. The preferred input port for the machine is SCART or co-ax. My wife accidentally put the original handset on the fire and didn't notice until it was a dripping, flaming mess.
Before that, we had a 14" portable dating to 1982 and the remote was either a 6ft bamboo cane or my elder daughter who loved to run across the room and press the [eight] buttons.
Regards,
Richard
I just heard a YouTuber refer to a T shirt as a wearable
us Boomers called that clothing
...kids these days.
...I remember those days of being the "remote". Back then we only had 5 channels (the three major networks, an educational station, and the local UHF station) not the plethora that we have today. Hence, "channel surfing" wasn't a thing back then. Also, the Sunday edition of our local newspaper included a Television section that had the weekly programme schedule which we kept on an end table so we knew what was on which channel and at what time.
For some reason, I decided to put two potatoes into their own buckets with dirt. I just checked on the dirt buckets and something green is coming out of one of the bucket's dirt.
If a person puts the shirt on, does it automatically put the person into some kind of pose?
pity clothing doesn't work like that, I want outfits that apply a slimmer morph to me when I put them on
Once my stepdad gave me a red skirt outfit. The major problem is it reeked of moth balls! I tried washing that smell out. Instead it destroyed the shirt. I can't remember what happened to the rest of the set. Hopefully it went to a thrift shop where a nice elderly lady could wear it with a different top.
when my stepdad found out I no longer have that stinky skirt set, he said he won't give me anything else from his mum's old house. I was happy. I don't know why I accepted that skirt set. Let me think how many skirts or dresses I have. I don't want to include that cozy night dress I got recently. I can't think of any. I think I had some but they were donated or something.
I think if I find a dress or skirt when cleaning my room, I probably will donate it. But that doesn't count cozy nightdresses.
I am a serial cereal killer.
Back in the mid '60s when I was still in high school my parents had a Zenith 23" b/w TV in a nice "Early American" style oak cabinet. It had a button on the front that activated a motor to turn the channel tuning dial through the 12 VHF channels (of which we only received three clear enough to view. Channels 2, 4, and 7, all out of Buffalo), but it only went clockwise so if you held the button too long it had to go all the way around again. (Clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk, ...) At first it was exciting and my brother and I would fight to be the one to run to the TV to push the button. But I in my adolescent ambition took it upon myself to solder a length of lamp cord wire into the chassis and a nice hand-held button on the end of the wire. Then the fight was; who gets control of the wire? The TV did have UHF channels but no motor. But that didn't matter, there were no UHF channels available in our area back then.
...thick sliced apple wood smoked bacon, my special Mexican seasoned shredded hashbowns (with Tapatio™ sauce) with shredded sharp white cheddar cheese on top, and toast gave cereal a reprieve this morning.
Picked up a box of the classic "big biscuit" Shredded Wheat the other day (my favourite) which usually is expensive but happened to be on sale.. 2 biscuits per day yields nine brekkies for the next couple weeks..
seriously you don't use flannels, a face washer, washcloths?
another thing that blows my mind, how do you slough off the dead skin?
Seriously, not one bit of that clip made sense.
Shall we go back to using strigils?
Washcloths are cheap. Use a clean one everytime if you must. They don't all need monograms or have to match the wallpaper, they take up little room in the laundry, they fold quickly, they work. I don't understand why even question it?
Note to young people: Wash your face in a basin with a washcloth, instead of with your hands in the shower and try to tell me your skin doesn't shed.
I learned that when I was five.
I want to use a washcloth to wash my face but someone threw out most of my wash clothes.
it's apparently one of those cultural differences I was blissfully unaware of before the internet
like discovering there is a whole arse group of men who don't wipe their bums
which horrifies me
Australia using a washcloth or face washer as we more commonly call it is the norm and not just on the face, I actually scrub my limbs with a brush, many use a loofah and the cloth goes elsewhere after use on the face
the UK and Ireland it is common too, they call it a flannel
but Google confirms many European countries and in the middle and upper classes of the USA it is unheard off and thought of as a poor person thing
and neither group are aware of the others hygiene practices
once I saw the video not this one, a more controversial one I won't share here
I searched and was educated
Wearable is broader than clothing, encompassing forms of merch that might not normally be categorized as clothing like hats.
Fun fact: the Japanese word kimono literally translates to "thing to wear".
I can't figure out which level I left off at. Can you?
I am a serial cereal killer. That is why I go through a lot of milk in a week. It also means I can´t make hot cocoa with milk until I get my job situation figured out.
Do I get a prize or something for killing this thread?
No.
you get a sentence
However, if the thread dies of natural causes let it go with dignity