Aaryk Noctivagus

Try lifting a 50" Plasma TV!!!!

David Brent

Yeah, but you got your own back Harley.
You sent us 'Eastenders' and 'Trish'.

Dave.

David Brent

Does anyone remember how luxurious it was to have one of the first colour televisions with remote control?
Before that you had to train the wife or kids to change the channel for you. Wasn't it murder trying to adjust the contrast and colour controls on the old sets?

They talk about a future energy crisis but maybe we should be using up more energy and getting more exercise at the same time by banning television remote controls.

Although, I'm not even sure whether many of today's modern televisions can actually be worked without a remote control.

Dave.

brianl

I can remember the great excitement in the 50's when our neighbour announced that he had obtained a colour television which turned out to be a coloured plastic sheet that fitted over the B&W TV screen!
What a letdown!
BrianL

batman

What colour was the plastic sheet ... do you remember what effect it had on the picture?

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

christoph404

I remember ads for those attatchments even in the 70s in the back of the Sunday newspapers. There was also a large plastic sheet that clipped on the front of your telly that claimed to make your screen much bigger by acting as a magnifyer, god knows what effect that must have had on your eye sight.

batman

I remember those magnifiers .... in a flat I once rented the tiny TV provided had one attached. It was very odd.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Lord Brett

Oh God, we Brits haven't stuck you with that one have we? You haven't had The Jeremy Kyle Show foisted on you, I hope. A theatre of cruelty that makes Trish look like a hard news programme.

batman

Isn't Trisha Australian? If so, all we've done is sent her back. No more than they deserve for inflicting Prisoner Cell Block H on the world.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Aaryk Noctivagus

Not I. I came from a poor family and still had a small (tune to each station with a dial) black and white TV when almost everybody else had remote control colour.

My first remote control operated TV was a Wedding Present in 1988 from my wife's family - they gave us the cash and we bought the TV - We got our first VHS Video Recorder at the same time.

smudge

Likewise -

My folks finally went colour very soon after I'd left home (most mothers buy a puppy, don't they ? )

Must say it was funny coming home that first time and seeing them both in colour after all those years.....

Smudge

Welcome to my house. Enter freely, and of your own will...

Lord Brett

But Prisoner was fun in its way, wheras those goad-a-chav shows are just mean spirited.

I gather Aussies know the show just as Prisoner, as Cell Block H was added to the title for UK screenings in case people got it mixed up with the Paddy McGoulash show.

brianl

Can't recall the exact colours but the plastic sheet had a bluey/greeney tinge to it.
Didn't do very much for the picture!
BrianL

batman

Cheers BrianL.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Hugo

These sheets were divided into 3 horizontal strips. The top third was blue, the bottom third was green and the middle bit was pinky orange (flesh coloured) so that when there was an exterior medium shot out in the country the grass was green, the sky was blue and faces were pink. Interior shots looked a bit peculiar though.