Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 12, 2019

I’d be amazed if that type of TV is still working.

oh, those were the days

Good exercise for you.

Do they still make TVs that you can change channels without a remote?

Since this is the set top box era, I don’t think anyone has to do that.

Oldie but a goodie if it works ;-)

don’t forget the fine tuning knob!

Horizontal and vertical hold.

That doesn’t work on the t.v.s nowadays.

all signs point to a lost remote

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I miss the days when you’d pull all the tubes out of the TV set (after discharging the capacitors by using the cat) and take it into the repair shop and just toss that nasty old picture tube into their back room. Good times!

Brookins is either recycling or showing his fake Pluggerhood. Broadcast went digital only in 2009. An analog TV can only work with a converter box, which controls the input & has a remote. Dropping cable, getting a decent antenna, and relying on streaming is now the anti-Plugger thing.Or maybe they’ve spent the last 10 years trying to clear the static.

Don’t forget the vertical and horizontal hold knobs!

I thought in 2009 all those analog tvs needed the digital box which came with a remote….that was a very sad day

When all the stations went digital, that was the end of my old RCA. At the time, it was 20 years old and still worked great. I have moved across town, then out of state and was glad I didn’t have to lug that “portable” 25" around.

I hated repairing rotary tuners. Worst ones were Sony’s that if not turned the contacts would corrode and actually lift. The fix was to spend a few minutes and crank the knob. That is what they said in the service bulletin

or a modern version – he has to get up to change the channel bc he cant find the remote that happens to be showing in his back pocket.

The HORROR!

But no more 10:00 test-pattern though.

PJ always said the main reason his parents had him & his brother was so they’d have someone to get up & change the channel & adjust the rabbit ears.

Or… you need to wait for your grandkids to change the batteries

Not to turn the dial. He has to get up to go find the remote.

Actually We have One Fairly Big Universal Remote with Simple Controls and Easy to Read Backlit Keys on it. Factory remotes are for Basic Settings Only If Required and they store on the Components shelf’s.KISS

YourTV is an Admiral Easy Vision.

With today’s digital everything, I can guarantee he isn’t doing that anymore unless he wants to. no more analogue airwaves!