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[Sgt PSN]

Remember the days when "we" were the tv remotes for our parents ?


Good times

No, you old coot, I don't remember.  The tv we had when I was a kid had a remote because we weren't still fighting in Korea.

Im pretty sure the Korean was wasn't fought in the 70's capt crunch.

No, but it was when Rome was turning the dial back and forth between Bonanza and Gunsmoke on his pop's boob tube.

[QB Eagles]

We used to have to go up to the roof and move the antenna when Jack Benny was over and it was time to switch over to the Texaco Star Theatre.

[Sgt PSN]

All of that sounds terrible.

[Geowhizzer]

Grew up in Honey Brook Township.  No cable there until after I went to college.

I think the first TV we had with a remote was in high school.  Was a Sony System 3.

[General_Failure]

Remember the days when "we" were the tv remotes for our parents ?


Good times

No, you old coot, I don't remember.  The tv we had when I was a kid had a remote because we weren't still fighting in Korea.

Im pretty sure the Korean was wasn't fought in the 70's capt crunch.

Then what the farg was MASH all about, huh?

[smeags]

Grew up in Honey Brook Township.  No cable there until after I went to college.

I think the first TV we had with a remote was in high school.  Was a Sony System 3.

Freshman year for me. Parents still didn't get cable till we moved to the burbs in 89 so it was still just 7 channels but still was great to have a remote.

[Susquehanna Birder]

The first "remote" we had was one of these:



And it was a slice of heaven.

[smeags]

Nice, how long was the cord ?

This was our 1st

[Susquehanna Birder]

The cord was long enough to run across the room with quite a few feet to spare. It was definitely a tripping hazard.

[ice grillin you]

i dont remember the first tv remotes but i remember we had a cord betamax remote...holy shtein was it awful...you couldnt rewind or ff a few seconds...youd hit the button and the thing would just go buckwild and and rewind at least 30 seconds after you told it to stop...it was so farging annoying

[Sgt PSN]

My poppop had one of those.  I was like 5 and at the time I thought it was some futuristic shtein because it had so many buttons. Cords on those things were long as hell too.

[ice grillin you]

Cords on those things were long as hell too.

haha...yeah they were

[QB Eagles]

The first "remote" we had was one of these:



And it was a slice of heaven.

Those things were super satisfying to use. Also I remember being able to descramble the Spice Channel by messing with those buttons and the dial.

[smeags]

A scrambled spice channel still was worth W at Hong as a teenager. 

[hunt]

i was gifted an unlocked amazon fire stick with kodi & a bunch of add-ons already installed.  i'm guessing it's super illegal...but i'm not sure i care.  holy crap, there's a lot of stuff on there...including movies still in the theater.