How come TV's don't "flip" any more? remember you used to have to adjust

raccoon

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Mon Jan-11-10 03:37 PM
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How come TV's don't "flip" any more? remember you used to have to adjust

Edited on Mon Jan-11-10 03:39 PM by raccoon

the horizontal when the TV started flipping?

Edited to add:

If you are too young to remember TV's flipping, ask your parents or grands.

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sakabatou

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Mon Jan-11-10 03:53 PM
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1. I remember when I had to adjust

We had an old TV set when I was a kid.

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Deep13

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Mon Jan-11-10 03:57 PM
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2. I still have a Sony Watchman that has controls for that.

The complete image would roll vertically or else it would become skewed horizontally so that the picture was unrecognizable.

I should get a converter for that thing. It's a cool TV. It has a B&W 4x5" screen, AM-FM and a telescoping arial. My father bought it for me in 1991 for my law school dorm. Had awesome reception. My Dad's arial was on the roof on a rotor because his reception sucked so bad. (There was no cable on that street.) From the cellar, this little TV picked up everything with its on-board arial. When I first started dating Sweetie, she would telephone me to ask what I was doing and I said I was "watching a little TV." That became a running joke.

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NoPasaran

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Mon Jan-11-10 04:04 PM
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3. Modern circuitry is more stable than old sets with vacuum tubes

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triguy46

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Mon Jan-11-10 07:43 PM
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4. They come with aluminum foil already attached to the internal antenna.

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rurallib

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Mon Jan-11-10 11:03 PM
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5. a good whack or two upside the head and the TV knew not to flip!

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