Tuesday, August 16, 2022

terrible old days

Imagine this 

It's from the Age TV and Radio Guide 26 September 1963 p. 1. People had to actually have their television sets physically 'converted' to receive Channel 0. Sick. Channel 0 offered an enticement in the form of an exciting new test pattern transmission to get people converting now and avoiding the rush.

FFS! 

2 comments:

B Smith said...

You have to remember that TV was such an exciting new development back then that people would actually watch the test pattern if it was on.

David said...

It's sad.
It's also sad in the context of one million facebook users a day complaining about how they used to make their own entertainment.

what a relief

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