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Old 10-10-2007, 10:09 PM
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The advantage of old-school CRT tellys, though, is that they are far too heavy for burglars to steal.
Try lifting a 50" Plasma TV!!!!

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Should never have given them TV, then we'd have been saved 'Neighbours'!
Yeah, but you got your own back Harley.
You sent us 'Eastenders' and 'Trish'.

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Yes... in my case for not being wealthy enough to have my own private cinema
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.

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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!
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Old 11-10-2007, 08:00 AM
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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!
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What colour was the plastic sheet ... do you remember what effect it had on the picture?

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

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

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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.
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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.

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Does anyone remember how luxurious it was to have one of the first colour televisions with remote control?
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.
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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.....

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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.

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

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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!
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Old 12-10-2007, 08:32 AM
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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!
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Cheers BrianL.

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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.
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