• grue@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    if that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”

    It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there’s really a chance of it being cable-ready?!

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      7 months ago

      Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was “cable ready”. It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.

      Transitional era technology is fun like that.