TV help

[Ironside]

whats a CRT TV room is no problem its my living room which is for me allone and if i needed room i could always ditch the sofa

[RED-DOG]

This was our very first TV. It was a 12 volt b&w with a 10in screen, we used to connect it to my dad's lorry battery. Many was the time he would jump into his truck and drive away, usually breaking the wires and once pulling the telly through the window. we solved this problem by removing his ignition keys and putting them on top of the battery.

We had this TV for ages, but one fateful night my brother Tracy threw a boot at me, it missed my head but sheared the vertical hold knob off the telly, instantly plunging us back into the world of radio for the next 6 months.

[fearisthekey]

POTW 

Sure it was 'hi-tec' in its day..

[RED-DOG]

POTW 

Sure it was 'hi-tec' in its day..

I did a Google image search for "Perdio TV" and found this picture immediately, it is the exact model that we had. The knob that he knocked off was the top left as we look. I haven't seen this telly for almost 40 years, but that image transported me back to so completely that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I am almost in tears here.

[kinboshi]

I'm not THAT old, but we used to have an old Sony TV (black and white) with an analogue dial to tune and the good old vertical and horizontal hold.  The number of times we had to watch a programme with the picture scrolling slowly upwards

We obviously got a colour one, but the black and white Sony was the second telly for a long, long time. 

[lazaroonie]

POTW 

Sure it was 'hi-tec' in its day..

I did a Google image search for "Perdio TV" and found this picture immediately, it is the exact model that we had. The knob that he knocked off was the top left as we look. I haven't seen this telly for almost 40 years, but that image transported me back to so completely that the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I am almost in tears here.

funny story actually, when I came back from Holland about 10 years ago I brought my Sony TV with me, not realising that it wasnt really compatible with the UK transmissions (the picture was fine, but there was no sound). The house I was renting had an old push button tv in the garage, which had a lousy picture, but the sound was ok. Not really having money to splash out on a new tv right away I setup a system when I had my TV on the tV stand, the big old push button TV down behind the sofa where it was pretty much out of sight.

anyway some mates came round to watch the football one night and about 3 nights later we were in the pub where one of my mates started quizzing me on my "surround sound" setup, and was it expensive and difficult to install.

i found it difficult to keep a straight face...

[Ironside]

got TV back fixed for £56 total

[kinboshi]

Result.  Get Bolty to fix your remote if it's broken.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?sku=739566&camp_id=ppc

Just bought this for my bedroom, currently on my wall, Looks awesome, lovely looking tv's.

[bolt pp]

Result.  Get Bolt to fix your remote if it's broken.

FYP

 

[Ironside]

wow bolty can you fix remotes?

i am using my sky one as the tv one got run over and snapped i will bring it to luton tomorrow

thanks bolty

[kinboshi]

Result.  Get Bolt to fix your remote if it's broken.

FYP

 

My bad.  The 'y' key is next to the 't' key - must have hit it accidentally.