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Title: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: SourdoughStomper on August 21, 2017, 07:26:15 AM
We had a CRT television for the very longest of times.  :) But we bought our first flat-screen two years ago with our tax refund.

You? :arena:

Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: Leave a Whisper on August 21, 2017, 07:41:15 AM
We just got rid of ours earlier this year.
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Post by: Reiya on August 21, 2017, 08:06:26 AM
We still have two! It's a turn dial from the late 70's. The other one is a a portable black and white from who knows when.
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Post by: Carrehz on August 21, 2017, 08:25:30 AM
Hmm.. I know we haven't got any still in usage, not sure if we have an old one lying around or not.

We still had an old CRT TV for years, too :) Only switched to a flat-screen when the old telly finally gave up the ghost.
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on August 21, 2017, 08:40:29 AM
None of the options really fit my case (I selected the spare one because I guess it's as close as I can get). We have one, in my bedroom, that I use as a gaming TV for my Nintendo Wii (all our other consoles are plugged into the main flatscreen in the living room). I play it occasionally. I would not call it a spare TV, but a gaming TV.
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Post by: EnaRocketQueen on August 21, 2017, 09:02:13 AM
We used to have two, one in the front room, and the other in my room. They're long gone now though
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Post by: northstar3184 on August 21, 2017, 09:33:44 AM
Yes, the TV in my bedroom is a CRT TV. However, the picture tube is going, so I will need to get a new TV soon.
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Post by: Pheasant on August 21, 2017, 09:58:51 AM
We used to have one until about ten years ago. :P Nowadays, all we've owned are flatscreens.
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Post by: brightberry on August 21, 2017, 02:18:29 PM
I think we have one in a closet.  My husband has a bunch of things in that closet I want to throw out so I'm not allowed to look in it anymore.  :lol: :P
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Post by: rosierjay on August 21, 2017, 02:55:18 PM
yes we have one. it's in the media room (library). my brother uses it to play super nintendo and sega genesis. I use it to watch my vhs that i refuse to give up.
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Post by: Wardah on August 21, 2017, 04:30:36 PM
While my family has had lots of TVs through the years, I can count the number of TVs and monitors I have personally owned on one hand and only my first computer had a CRT that is probably still lurking in the basement.

Does anyone else remember rear projection TVs?
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Post by: orangepeachmango on August 21, 2017, 04:33:31 PM
i remember using a CRT for most of my life :+ ) when my dad moved just this past year he got a big fancy digital one.

i also just a few months ago bought a bunch of old vhs classics, and now i dont have a player for them! what happened to all those built-in-vcr tvs we had when i was little ...
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: vira on August 21, 2017, 06:22:34 PM
we have one in the basement that we use for video games, and two in storage "just in case" :-P
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Post by: Koudoawaia on August 21, 2017, 07:01:56 PM
Nope. We got our Samsung flat screen a few years ago after our livingroom monologue TV started having the screen go bad and then we replaced the free monologue one that we got from a hospital a year or two ago with another flat screen. My parents however are still using a really big monologue television and it still suits them just fine.
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Post by: Beldarna on August 21, 2017, 11:28:04 PM
We've only had flatscreens in this household but want to get a small crt to be able to play old gameconsols. Unfortunaly every other gamer out there has the same idea so they're getting hard to come by.
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: Shaz on August 22, 2017, 01:48:58 AM
We don't own a flatscreen TV, we just have an aged portable TV that we've owned since 2003. We're not up to date with technology here! It is much to my disappointment that we no longer have a VCR, I have so many great videos I'd like to watch again.
I still remember the halcyon days of five channels and not having a remote. Now we have hundreds of channels and very little decent stuff to watch!
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Post by: SnorkMaiden on August 22, 2017, 02:16:06 AM
I had a non-flatscreen TV back when I was still living with my family, but ever since I moved out, I've had a flatscreen. My brother used my old TV for a while, but then I believe it gave up the ghost.
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Post by: tikibirds on August 22, 2017, 07:26:25 AM
I mostly use my computer for watching stuffs
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Post by: slyons on August 22, 2017, 09:48:26 AM
I've got a few that he refuses to throw out, because although we don't have any TVs in the house (save for the flat screen one we use as the camera screen) he always says he's going to use one...someday
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Post by: Einhornbaby on August 22, 2017, 10:08:22 AM
None of the options really fit my case (I selected the spare one because I guess it's as close as I can get). We have one, in my bedroom, that I use as a gaming TV for my Nintendo Wii (all our other consoles are plugged into the main flatscreen in the living room). I play it occasionally. I would not call it a spare TV, but a gaming TV.

same here :)
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: glitterball on August 22, 2017, 11:54:35 AM
I think we have one in a closet.  My husband has a bunch of things in that closet I want to throw out so I'm not allowed to look in it anymore.  :lol: :P

 :nod: :haha: yep, mine's the same!

I still have an old little TV from 1985 - it was a special birthday present from my parents - it is always in storage but has been very useful over the years - it was in my uni digs in London (carrying it on the Tube was fun...ex boyfriends has their uses lol), it was our temporary tv when my husband and I got our first house, it was moved to hospital for my grandmother's ward bed (in the 90s) - I think it is asleep in my parents' attic at the moment! Still working - but needs a Freeview tuner to get a digital signal now!  :relaxed:
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Post by: LadyMoondancer on August 22, 2017, 07:25:27 PM
I had the big ones for the longest time, but I finally switched a couple years ago.  The flat screens are sooo much easier to handle when you're moving or rearranging furniture.
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: HelloGoodbye on August 23, 2017, 09:05:37 AM
The downstairs TV that everyone mainly uses is a flat screen, but the TV upstairs in my Mom's room is a CRT TV.  It gets used every day still.
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Post by: scarletjul on August 23, 2017, 06:19:32 PM
Nope.

But we probably still have one or two in the garage, collecting dust.
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Post by: Harmonie on August 24, 2017, 08:38:00 AM
There very likely are some out in my parents' garage. I didn't get an HD TV until maybe late 2010 IIRC. The TV I had before was a flat screen in the sense that the screen was flat, but it had a big back like the old TVs. I think I got it back in 2003.

None of these TVs are present with me right now. Everything is flat screen and HD at my apartment.
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Post by: Anitas_Mom on August 24, 2017, 09:00:37 AM
Yes, we have two.  One is a 300 lb 32 " Sony Brava in our bedroom.  Haven't gotten rid of it because who can lift it???
The other is another Sony that used to be in Anita's bedroom when she was in highschool.  Not as heavy, but equally as useless.  Both still work well and if anyone is interested, come and get 'em!  :LOL
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Post by: Honeycomb on August 24, 2017, 05:47:17 PM
I don't have a TV at all, but my parents have been using the same old one for I don't know how many years, and they refuse to replace it unless it's broken. Which makes complete sense to me!
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Post by: Wardah on August 24, 2017, 11:34:56 PM
The TV I had before was a flat screen in the sense that the screen was flat, but it had a big back like the old TVs. I think I got it back in 2003.

Your's was probably a rear projection TV too. They were pretty popular in the early 2000s.
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Post by: NightGliderSA on August 25, 2017, 08:56:11 AM
We have one, which is in the playroom for the kids to watch their dvd's on. And, yes, I too refuse to replace it until it no longer works. Perfectly good enough for them to use and nice and sturdy. Our other 2 tv's are flat screen.
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Post by: Lucky_Ladybug on August 25, 2017, 05:46:33 PM
I agree on using things until they're broken. We still use CRT TVs and computer monitors, although we also have flatscreens of both as well. We use both kinds around here.
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Post by: Stormness_1 on August 25, 2017, 10:49:39 PM
Our house's last hold out was tossed just last year. It's been on the fritz for as long as I can remember, but my FIL refused to throw it out. (we live in two halves of the same house) We had 2 flat screens, (one in our room and the guest bedroom) and the home theatre has a projector, but this stupid little pokey old telly that was constantly having to be thumped or restarted was still sitting pride of place in the living room, the one place with a HD cable setup! Finally, last year, it developed a blue line across the screen, and it was replaced with a 50-inch HD LCD. Talk about an upgrade! We left the old TV in it's cabinet, since it was a built-in, until we had time to rearrange everything, as we were moving one of the fish tanks to the old TV alcove, and of course it had to be emptied before we could move it. His wife came home and didn't even notice! She's sitting there, getting frustrated because the old TV won't turn on (it was no longer plugged in) when there's a massive flat screen right beside it, all set up and ready to go! She is literally the least observant person I have ever met, and I thought I wore the crown of oblivion, but she's waaay worse than me!
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Post by: Ringlets on August 26, 2017, 03:54:50 AM
I really don't watch TV much (I mostly watch stuff on computer for short times, or I watch DVDs rather than TV), but the parents have a non flat screen TV they use everyday and it still works perfectly ..from 1996 I think . We have a TV to use for our old video games consoles too (not that I play them like I used to *sigh*) .  :awake:
 I do have a flat screen with built in DVD player as well  though (that's mine n hubbys, the parents cant touch that :P )
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Post by: Shy Violet on August 26, 2017, 11:36:51 PM
We haven't had one for 9 or 10 years now. All flat screens here.
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Post by: Juliepants on August 28, 2017, 12:32:57 AM
We got given a heavy old TV when we first got married 12 years ago! It's only this year we bought our own new one!!

Jules x
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Post by: BethMcBeth on August 28, 2017, 11:27:06 AM
We upgraded all of ours due to quality and Costco.
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Post by: QuestorStar on August 29, 2017, 05:53:39 PM
I have a small one to play my old school games on (SNES, Game Cube, N64). I've heard you can get an upconverter for not much money but I haven't looked into it too much. MAN that thing weighs a TON!! It's 17" and I feel like it weighs 50lbs
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Post by: Suineder on August 29, 2017, 07:52:27 PM
I don't watch TV, but I do have a hand-me-down CRT in my bedroom for playing Atari games on.

I've heard you can get an upconverter for not much money but I haven't looked into it too much.
I've heard that the Framemeister is quite good and versatile, but that one's pretty expensive.
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Post by: Bright_Glow on August 30, 2017, 10:15:42 AM
We changed down our old TV about 2-3 years ago when the TV broadcast was digitalized in my country and my granny got her own LCD TV this year for her birthday.
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Post by: jrr74 on August 30, 2017, 05:14:39 PM
Have one in the garage and the wood shop just hanging out, collecting dust.  Not even sure if they work.  And now I'm afraid to turn them on in case they blow up
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Post by: TwistedRiver on August 31, 2017, 07:22:14 AM
Still have and use mine daily. I'm pretty much the only one who has one now, though Hannah has a small one that she our brother is borrowing since his flat screen died.
They're good for old games and all, so until they eventually die, even if I do eventually get myself a flat screen they're probably worth hanging on to.
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Post by: RandomPony on August 31, 2017, 08:57:20 PM
Yeah we had one, it finally was going down hill, so my dad being the redneck he was took it out in the woods and shot it! Don't ask me why ^^;
Title: Re: Watching old-school TV?
Post by: Pierlala on September 06, 2017, 08:48:09 AM
The last time I remember using one was my father's house in 2006. After he moved it got replaced by a flat screen.
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