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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

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653 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.456s | source
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tivert ◴[28 Jul 23 18:57 UTC] No.36911531[source]▶
One inaccuracy/anachronism: this simulation has a second of static between channel changes. Analog TVs were never like that. Channel changes were near instantaneous, and there was never any static unless you tuned to a dead channel.

All those pauses and waits are an artifact of later computerized/digital technology.

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lolidk ◴[28 Jul 23 19:42 UTC] No.36912218[source]▶
That's right. Before all that you'd typically spend a few minutes going through all the frequencies to set the channels.
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1. tivert ◴[28 Jul 23 19:46 UTC] No.36912275[source]▶
> That's right. Before all that you'd typically spend a few minutes going through all the frequencies to set the channels.

I don't think that's quite right.

IIRC that was basically a function to scan for inactive channels so they could be automatically skipped when flipping through channels sequentially. That scan was often automated.

The frequencies were already set in the TV, and I don't recall any capability on any set to change them (except to flip between the "over-the-air" channel/frequency mappings and the "cable" mappings).

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2. lolidk ◴[28 Jul 23 21:09 UTC] No.36913355[source]▶
Whenever you got yourself a new TV, you had to set the channels once. Afterwards it would just remember what you already had.