The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.
I have an old mini tv(the kind that took C cell batteries) that can still pickup the good ol CMB!
My mother had one of these. I got to use it as a hand-me-down as a teenager because my mother was abusive AF.
For clarity, the subject of the TV wasn't the abusive part. Her rationale of "I didn't have one when I was a kid so you don't get to have one while you're a kid" was. It didn't apply just to the TV.
You mean scrambled porn, right?
Maybe not directly on their TV set, but there are more than enough references to it in TV and film media that it's still known almost universally.
Everything from old beloved films to Modern period shows. Its literally an overused way to establish the narrative isnt taking place in the present.
I have actually, we had a big old crt tv way back when
or a new smaller tv sitting on top of the old, wood frame tv as a stand now
Umm… I had a CRT until 2009 and even sold it to someone.
Was it just me or has anyone seen or make out patterns while staring at it? I sometimes found it amusing
Dude Flatscreen HDTVs were expensive even in 2008, and cable actually got worse for higher price so most people were hooked into local broadcast.
If they ever watch Poltergeist they'll know it's the TV people trying to get out.
I had a CRT as our family's main TV until 2017
A high end CRT is a solid choice and was hard to replicate until recently.
Part of me wishes they still made them.
Well, if they had watched any HBO show, they kind of saw it !
uhhh, yes i have? I'm pretty sure some of my younger cousins have lol
While I've grown up with CRTs (90's kid) I've never seen the actual static in real life, only simulations.
I don't think channels ever went out, and if the TV was listening to a connection that didn't give anything it just shone bright blue.
2007er here, I grew up with a CRT as the TV in our second living room, I'd occasionally watch stuff like Bob the builder and others, but since it was all on analog tv, channels started displaying lots of static, pretty much only like 2 or 3 channels were working last I saw.
Also we had that CRT TV until 2018, then chucked it in the store room, then threw it out in 2020, I kinda miss it, kinda don't, idk.
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