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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 25, 2022 12:48:37 GMT
Do You Remember the first few TV sets you had when you were growing up?
My First TV was a 4 inch screen black and white with a coat hanger hanging out the back for an aerial, I think really it was intended to be a TV for caravans or something like that but my folks gave it me to play my Spectrum 48k and Atari VCS on, when I got a 14inch Colour Matsui TV for my Christmas present one year it was like stepping in to a whole new world specially as it had a composite socket and stuff.
After this it became the days of me buying my own TV's and I loose count of how many I had and the makes and sizes, most of them were gotten from car boots or second hand places and used until I either got better or they just ran into the ground etc..
I remember my First Flat Telly it was about 20inches and by a German Company called Kogan, it was gotten years and years ago and only started developing issues 6 months ago when my daughter took it to uni, first the sound went crackly and then it just started failing in ever way so I told her to throw it in the nearest Skip. The TV I use most of the time now is a Sony 50inch 4K one.
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 25, 2022 13:02:36 GMT
I had a nice Sony 21" Trinitron TV as my first games screen. None of that fancy widescreen stuff though, the on/off switch didn't work so we just pulled out the plug! Gave many years of Amiga gameplay until those dreaded lines showed up and we had to ditch it.
*EDIT* This was the TV we had downstairs, my parents upgraded to another Sony, a bast*rd heavy widescreen one, which also lasted years and years.
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Post by merman on Aug 25, 2022 13:40:17 GMT
First was the “big TV” in the lounge, a 19” Panasonic.
Had a small black & white portable for a while, then a much bigger 23” b&w screen when the computer was set up in a bedroom permanently.
Then it was a Sony portable colour TV, which I still use with retro machines.
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Post by rednoggy on Aug 25, 2022 15:11:14 GMT
I basically git the living room hand me downs. First was a black and white thing,with a dial to tune in. Played my nes on that bad lad. Then I got a colour 14" which I had up until I earned my own cash.
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Post by sega2006 on Aug 26, 2022 3:01:38 GMT
Usually it was retired CRT monitors bought for a pittance, first actual TV was a 80s Matsui Colour which in hindsight I'd wished survived as it fit in with my Stereo, first TV I bought myself was a Monitor Hybrid from the Ferrari Acer line that I should still have somewhere, no remote but the thing was CRT heavy as it had a lot of metal in it's Casing thatwas of course Rosso corsa red.
Current set up bar the Laptop is some cheapo wall mounted 19" lcd that was still in the room when I moved into it, a 19" Hybrid I got NOS from Cash Converters donkeys years ago but is full HD and the Dual 14"CRT I was given on my 16th birthday which of course is required for light guns.
Can't go for anything larger as I don't have the space and tbh 99% of the time I'm doing everything on the Laptop anyway.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 26, 2022 4:34:07 GMT
One thing I will say about modern TV's is the flatness really helps with getting a big screen, the back of some of the old 28inch TV's used to take up a huge amount of space , I don't think if someone had offered me one for free as a kid I'd have had the space for one in my room.
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Post by learnedrobb on Aug 26, 2022 15:26:50 GMT
I had a 12" b&w portable TV, tuned in with a rotary dial. Used that for a couple of years with my C16.
When I got the Speccy, my parents also bought me and my brother a 14" colour portable to go with it. I was still using the same TV well over a decade later with my Dreamcast.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 26, 2022 20:36:55 GMT
Something funny I forgot to mention was my second ever TV the Matsui 14inch one was the exact same type of TV I ended up getting my daughter when she was 4.
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Post by Special Turbo on Aug 27, 2022 5:10:01 GMT
First TV I bought with my own money was a Sony VVEGA Trinitron 27". These days I play my retro games on a Sony VVEGA Trinitron 36". But that 27" I played nonstop for 20 years and have a lot of fond memories.
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Post by flatapex on Aug 27, 2022 22:32:42 GMT
Akura portable from about 93 till sometime in the late 90s
Big gap between getting rid of md and getting a ps2, by that time I had a 21 inch Sony, before upgrading to a 23 inch Philips lcd in the mid 2000s, which I still have.
Moved out and got a 32 inch lg, that’s now in the games room. We have a 40 something inch Panasonic which the xb1 utilises in the front room
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Post by necronom on Aug 28, 2022 17:56:09 GMT
I've mainly used the same portable. It's the same Sony Trinitron that RMC Neil has in lots of his videos. I got it in 88 after putting up with my previous non-SCART TV and using my Amiga with a modulator. It still works great and I use it mostly for my Vic-20 at the moment.
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Post by oldtimer on Aug 31, 2022 16:05:56 GMT
A 12" Ferguson B/W TV to play an early Binatone Pong machine.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 31, 2022 16:32:08 GMT
A 12" Ferguson B/W TV to play an early Binatone Pong machine. Wish my first black and white had been that big lol .... Still I loved it and thats the important thing that you valued what ever you had. |
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Post by Markopoloman on Aug 31, 2022 20:13:59 GMT
The first TV I had for the C64 was bloody HUGE! No idea what make it was though. No idea where it came from either - it was bigger than the one in the lounge!!!
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Post by RetroBob on Aug 31, 2022 21:01:05 GMT
YES, it was an ancient TV that was in my Granny's house for years, brought it downstairs the day I bought my SMS 2 around 1991/2. Massive convex CRT but it was my first!
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