My very first Atari TV has died! (sniff)

[farfel]

Yes. It broke.
The vertical hold died.
The used Sears TV my mommmy and daddy gave my in 1979 for my new Atari Video Computer System.



Oh how many hours I sepnt sitting in front of that thing playing Pac-Man and Asteroid and Missile Command. And watching RCA video records. And Johnny Carson & A-Team & McGuyver.

Oh the memories.

December 1976 - August 2004 = almost 28 years!

rest in peace :(

[Darth Sensei]

Can we all observe a moment of silence?

D

[PongHit]

... And watching RCA video records. ...

What the heck are RCA Video Records?

-PongHit

[omnedon]

Analog laser discs in a long flat cartridge that looks like a record sleeve but a bit thicker.

A fallen warrior to be sure. It's served you well. So long old friend!

[farfel]

No, not a laser.

It used a needle. Records that store about 2 hours of movie - it was RCA's try to beat VHS/Betamax video cassettes



More - Ye olde tele vision is nae dead anon! I just decide to make it a "tv radio" while playing videogames. For background noise. It still has purpose.

[omnedon]

Analog laser discs




It used a needle.


LOL LOL LOL

I was too lazy to type it out. I just realized I put analog and laser in the same sentence. LOL

[soniko_karuto]

hehehhe

analog laser

anyhoo, feel really sorry for your tv set, believe me, i know how you feel. :(

[-hellvin-]

R.I.P.

[allsport11]

R.I.P old friend. :( Luckily mine is still going strong.

[FABombjoy]

hehehhe

analog laser


Why's that funny? Laserdiscs are analog.

[Raedon]

TV's today suck. I had a 27" woodgrain Zenith Chromacolor III from the late 70's that lasted right to the moment I left it behind, still working, during a move in the late 90's.

[omnedon]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if a laser is reading it, it's usually digital information, correct?

Analog is physical vibrations (needle in a groove), or magnetic fluctuations (tape), or electrical pulse variations. Digital is 1's and 0's read in rapind succession, usually by lasers. Occasoinally on tape too. And magnetic discs. I guess the old laserdiscs, since they are not compressed data, are an analog signal, read by laser reflection. I think I get it!!

Owwww. Now my brain hurts. This thread is about the death of a faithful TV!! LOL

[The Manimal]

LaserDisc is analog and digital. I believe it's analog video all the way but is put onto the disc in a digital form. In 1985 or so, they started putting digital audio tracks (in addition to the analog ones) on discs...

So everyone is right....except those who called those Select-a-Vision discs LaserDisc (or LaserVision, or DiscOVision)...


FYI, a misnomer about DiscOVision is that the name had something to do with "disco" the music. It didn't.

[Ed Oscuro]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if a laser is reading it, it's usually digital information, correct?

Analog is physical vibrations (needle in a groove), or magnetic fluctuations (tape), or electrical pulse variations. Digital is 1's and 0's read in rapind succession, usually by lasers. Occasoinally on tape too. And magnetic discs. I guess the old laserdiscs, since they are not compressed data, are an analog signal, read by laser reflection. I think I get it!!

Owwww. Now my brain hurts. This thread is about the death of a faithful TV!! LOL
Interesting point - Digital doesn't necessarily have to be binary; if you had, say, a CD with various pigments (burned by running the laser at different frequencies/intensity, maybe) you could easily make a disc that stores much more data (there'd be a little bit of work decoding the data, though). Just think - a word in a single "bit" of data! :D

Oh yeah, I sorta remember when our trusty old grain Montgomery Ward was traded out for our current 50" TV...teh sad

[Videogamerdaryll]

:(






...............
Is getting it repaired an option...?..Just thought I'd ask..

[rbudrick]

As the son of a TV repairman, I am confident you could have it repaired. Sometimes those old sets are easier than the newer ones....

-Rob

[o2william]

In the face of this tragedy, take comfort in the words of Homer Simpson:


We're gonna get a new TV. Twenty-one-inch screen. Realistic flesh tones. And a little cart so we can wheel it into the dining room on holidays!

Now I don't know what's sadder, your TV dying or my knowing that quotation by heart. Either way, sorry to hear a little piece of your childhood has been permanently powered down.

R.I.P. :(

[Nuadha]

I still remember when my first TV set died. God, that was a nice TV. I only got about 12 years of use out of it and it ended up playing everything from my Vic=20 to my Super NES before it died. It sadly missed the Playstation by a couple months.

[farfel]

Repair yes but it's cheaper to buy another TV Time to move on.

I call my select-a-vision discs video records cause that's what they are. Plastic. Grooves. Needles.

I miss Johnny Carson.