Pretty soon we shall see a TV version of POW. Walmart’s funniest videos.
Phil from Oz
April 16, 2016 8:13 pm
Samsung. EXTREMELY reliable (as are LG – I still use an old Flatron monitor on the Workshop PC, and that must be a good 12 years old).
The Chinese are catching up / have caught up in terms of reliability – most of the Hospitals I work with use videoconferencing a lot, and the screens are “on” 24/7. The suppliers of the system (we lease, not own outright) installed ChangHong flat screen LCD’s about 3-4 years ago, a Company I’d never heard of (although the are the second-largest TV manufacturer in China, and act as Contract Manufacturer for a number of Western “Big Name” electronics Companies). ALL have been “on” (and in heavy daily use) for that length of time, and we have yet to have a single failure.
rhs jr
April 16, 2016 9:14 pm
I get about 8 rabbit ear channels if the weather is clear and there is no wind to screw up reception like an aircraft used to do; not one is “gold”; in fact, it’d say they are all 14 Karat Crap.
Ed
April 16, 2016 9:56 pm
Well, OK. fat guys in the woods might be the next Grizzly Adams or something. What do I know from TV?
IndenturedServant
April 16, 2016 11:32 pm
I think the golden years of TeeVee were the first decade of it’s existence. Back then people had the ideas that it would be a great medium to educate people and inspire them. After that, the ego maniacal ass wipes seized control to use it as a medium to spread misinformation and train sheople via the immoral pablum pumped out by the sparkle box. Now we get “Fat Guys In The Woods”. Nuff said!
We are currently enjoying the golden age of Al Gore’s innerwebz so soak it in because it will become as fucked up as teevee before too long with no redeeming value.
Maggie
April 17, 2016 12:06 am
IS, when in the Journalism school aka the J-school at OU, the Intro to Mass Communications class had an interesting “real” professor who taught us the real scoop and then retired to his office to drink himself into a stupor for the afternoon. He’d seen the whole bidness and his days in Vietnam as a reporter had sent him into a classroom.
He said that if it hadn’t been for advertising’s early influence on programming and “gatekeepers” that Television could have brought the world together instead of creating the disaster we were facing.
They fired him/retired him early that next year.
IndenturedServant
April 17, 2016 12:14 am
Not surprising at all Maggie.
IndenturedServant
April 17, 2016 3:51 am
An Idaho farm boy invented television in his mind while driving a tractor and later went on to build a camera and television and demonstrated it to the public.
There were a lot of folks experimenting with mechanical television. Philo may have copied from the Japanese inventor of the first electronic teevee. To say that Philo invented teevee in his mind while driving a tractor is daft. I’m looking forward to next year when you will have reached another 20 IQ points milestone.
Bostonbob
April 17, 2016 8:42 am
Full Retard,
You may want to read a little more into the development of the full electronic television. It was developed along many parallels by several brilliant men at different labs of which Farnsworth was one. Several of these men agree that his design was one of the critical prototypes of the tube based televisions we had for many decades.
Bob.
Grog
April 17, 2016 11:31 am
TeeVee
Talk about shit throwing monkeys…
Full Retard
April 17, 2016 3:02 pm
Bob, Your right, I meant that when I said there were a lot of people experimenting with television as the next frontier of radio. Philo was but one of them. Re-writing history to attribute their work to only one farm boy riding a tractor is a typical rags to riches fairy tale.
I would like to see I-S expand on this topic, it would make a nice article. Maggie gave him a head start with her comment.
BTW There is an interesting collection of old teevees in Italy.
Pretty soon we shall see a TV version of POW. Walmart’s funniest videos.
Samsung. EXTREMELY reliable (as are LG – I still use an old Flatron monitor on the Workshop PC, and that must be a good 12 years old).
The Chinese are catching up / have caught up in terms of reliability – most of the Hospitals I work with use videoconferencing a lot, and the screens are “on” 24/7. The suppliers of the system (we lease, not own outright) installed ChangHong flat screen LCD’s about 3-4 years ago, a Company I’d never heard of (although the are the second-largest TV manufacturer in China, and act as Contract Manufacturer for a number of Western “Big Name” electronics Companies). ALL have been “on” (and in heavy daily use) for that length of time, and we have yet to have a single failure.
I get about 8 rabbit ear channels if the weather is clear and there is no wind to screw up reception like an aircraft used to do; not one is “gold”; in fact, it’d say they are all 14 Karat Crap.
Well, OK. fat guys in the woods might be the next Grizzly Adams or something. What do I know from TV?
I think the golden years of TeeVee were the first decade of it’s existence. Back then people had the ideas that it would be a great medium to educate people and inspire them. After that, the ego maniacal ass wipes seized control to use it as a medium to spread misinformation and train sheople via the immoral pablum pumped out by the sparkle box. Now we get “Fat Guys In The Woods”. Nuff said!
We are currently enjoying the golden age of Al Gore’s innerwebz so soak it in because it will become as fucked up as teevee before too long with no redeeming value.
IS, when in the Journalism school aka the J-school at OU, the Intro to Mass Communications class had an interesting “real” professor who taught us the real scoop and then retired to his office to drink himself into a stupor for the afternoon. He’d seen the whole bidness and his days in Vietnam as a reporter had sent him into a classroom.
He said that if it hadn’t been for advertising’s early influence on programming and “gatekeepers” that Television could have brought the world together instead of creating the disaster we were facing.
They fired him/retired him early that next year.
Not surprising at all Maggie.
An Idaho farm boy invented television in his mind while driving a tractor and later went on to build a camera and television and demonstrated it to the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
There were a lot of folks experimenting with mechanical television. Philo may have copied from the Japanese inventor of the first electronic teevee. To say that Philo invented teevee in his mind while driving a tractor is daft. I’m looking forward to next year when you will have reached another 20 IQ points milestone.
Full Retard,
You may want to read a little more into the development of the full electronic television. It was developed along many parallels by several brilliant men at different labs of which Farnsworth was one. Several of these men agree that his design was one of the critical prototypes of the tube based televisions we had for many decades.
Bob.
TeeVee
Talk about shit throwing monkeys…
Bob, Your right, I meant that when I said there were a lot of people experimenting with television as the next frontier of radio. Philo was but one of them. Re-writing history to attribute their work to only one farm boy riding a tractor is a typical rags to riches fairy tale.
I would like to see I-S expand on this topic, it would make a nice article. Maggie gave him a head start with her comment.
BTW There is an interesting collection of old teevees in Italy.