Remember then?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

My first color 📺 I still have it!

[underpants]

1. Our Mom told when we were kids that if we took a picture of the TV

while it was on, it would explode.

🤯

She had all kinds of sayings like that.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. A wise woman! Polaroids were especially dangerous! 😬

[Goonch]

2. ;-{) I remember.......

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. ☺️

[rsdsharp]

3. My first color TV was a 17 inch Sony. I bought it in 1976,

on sale, as a discontinued model, for $495!

Sometimes, as I struggle to make out the scoreboard graphic in my 50” hdtv, I wonder what that would look like on the old Sony.

I no longer have it. It died in 1990. Sonys tend to go from a great picture to totally dead with nothing in between — but they do last a long time.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. 😥

[LogDog75]

15. My parents bought their first color TV in the early 80s

My mother's comment about the TV was she was surprised by how colorful Johnny Carson's curtains were.

[moniss]

4. You were a high roller buying a Sony all I could afford

was an RCA.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 😁

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Trinitrons still fetch good money on eBay, incredibly durable tubes

I had an XBR for about a week. I had to use it with its bunny ears and the reception was poor. The ears were brushed aluminum and did not pick up well like the chrome GE of the era. But surely Sony was not catering to rural areas.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/444560212348840/posts/1821183121353202/

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. 🤗

[quaint]

6. I have one of the last Trinitron models, 2001.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. ☺️

[Ptah]

7. I still have my color Etch-a-Sketch

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Sweet!

[LogDog75]

16. Remember 8-track tapes

I used to have an 8-track recorder back in the early 70s. You'd be listening to music and in the middle of a song the cassette would switch to another track and continue the song. I also remember people replacing their car radios with in-dash 8-track cassette with AM/FM radios.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. ☺️

[GReedDiamond]

17. I remember, in the early 1960s to mid-70s, having tv sets all over the house...

...including my own remote control (Zenith analog clicker device) tv in my room.

Plus tvs in pretty much all rooms of the house, including a small portable tv in the main bathroom.

The reason was, my stepfather was the lead electronics engineer for Zenith, and he was allowed to bring all of the new designs home to test them in real time, under "average family circumstances."

Here's a link to a Zenith promo from the early 60s - the remote control shown in the still is like the one I had:

I had a nice color tv in my room - in the early 70s - that was testing the effectiveness of something that was supposed to reduce the amount of "harmful radiation" emanating from the tv.

I asked stepdad, "howzit workin?" and he said, it was interfering with the quality of the image, so he had disconnected the device so my tv picture would look better.

I guess he didn't care about the radiation so much.

And no, I did not get to keep any of the tvs.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 🤗

[justaprogressive]

20. Our first: Hitachi 12"

[AllaN01Bear]

21. i have my second tv and my third . my first one burnt up at my moms and whend mom passed away

i inhereted her set anmd have a firstt gen flat screen.