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The good thing about rabbit ears is, if you can use those, you've got the right hook-up for an Atari 2600.
Black and white TVs were still kicking around when I was little. My first bedroom TV was a little black and white one, because I needed something for my Nintendo. I didn't miss it when color TVs of gradually larger sizes replaced it in subsequent years. Lots of our first TVs still had rabbit ears, and the family TV was one of those gigantic, living-room, wooden furniture deals from before TVs were solely electronic gadgets.
OH MY GOD!! Rabbit Ears!!
I remember those! We had them on our first television set. I remember as a kid, constantly tweaking them and fiddling around with them to try and get the best TV reception. Gosh I haven't seen a pair of those in years! I doubt anyone below the age of 20 would even KNOW what rabbit-ears are. Gosh...
Last time I had to fiddle with one of those things to watch television, I was...five years old.
Tom, that could very well be the exact same TV, coincidentally.
If you're really old, you remember wrapping the ends of the rabbit ears in tinfoil to improve the reception. Or making your little sister stand next to the TV holding the left-hand rabbit ear because that's the only way Channel 8 would come in.
If you're really old, you remember wrapping the ends of the rabbit ears in tinfoil to improve the reception. Or making your little sister stand next to the TV holding the left-hand rabbit ear because that's the only way Channel 8 would come in.
If you're really old, you remember wrapping the ends of the rabbit ears in tinfoil to improve the reception. Or making your little sister stand next to the TV holding the left-hand rabbit ear because that's the only way Channel 8 would come in.
I'm a senior in high-school and I'm positive the majority of my class has actually seen/used a film camera. I find it difficult to believe that kids four or five years younger than me are completely oblivious to them. I believe you, it's just strange is all...
I wonder how many people associate it with THAT alone, and don't think "record" when they hear it.
Interesting, because I always pay attention to those marks since watching Fight Club, and I've noticed that they don't appear at every theater I go to. Maybe they'll start artificially adding them back in on the reruns of old films, as is done with the scratching of records on certain music tracks.