Author Topic: The Cathode Ray Tube Site (Read 3039 times)

Clive · « **on:** March 08, 2005, 15:59 »

Hours of delight for Scrumpy Jack.

http://members.chello.nl/~h.dijkstra19/index.html

Scrumpy-Jack · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2005, 01:12 »

Yes Clive.......I know that site well......I've spent many happy hours there .....

Aren't CRT's wonderfull?..........shaped containers with almost nothing inside.......Just like my HEAD

LONG LIVE ..GLASSWARE !!!!!!!...thats VALVES AND CRT'S 8)

Michelle · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2005, 17:57 »

I have to say thats even more boring than the cloud website, at least clouds are pretty :!:

:twisted:

TR · « **Reply #3 on:** March 09, 2005, 18:30 »

Thats an Interesting site Clive..will add that one :wink:

Clive · « **Reply #4 on:** March 09, 2005, 19:54 »

Some of us are very disappointed with you Michelle.

:blahh:

chorleydave · « **Reply #5 on:** March 09, 2005, 20:03 »

I'm enthralled. Truly fascinating.

:x

Michelle · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2005, 23:13 »

Well clive I went and had another look just for you :wink: and its still the same. :roll:

Simon · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2005, 23:24 »

Michelle! I think that site is better viewed wearing an anorak. :wink: :blahh:

Michelle · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2005, 23:29 »

ah, is that what it is!

Well I don't have one of those, so I'll have to wait to borrow Scrumpy-Jack's but it seems he must be using it.

Scrumpy-Jack · « **Reply #9 on:** March 16, 2005, 01:01 »

Well heres a site full of GLORIOUS GLOBES and HOT HEATERS just for CLIVE .......

http://www.r-type.org/static/museum.htm

Be carefull CLIVE to much looking at this stuff will make you go BLIND :shock:

Hold on..just going to take my ANORAK off and hand it to MICHELLE 8)

Clive · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2005, 09:06 »

There can't be many people who find sites like that fascinating, but I confess to being one of them!

When I was a kid, my next door neighbour was a retired radio/TV engineer and he used to spend all his time in the shed tinkering around with those big Bush valve sets. I used to enjoy watching him diagnose and repair faults and he taught me to build my own valve radios. Sadly, I even reember many of those valve numbers!! I had a feeling that that DEQ valve he had in the drawer was old because it looked pretty antiquated even back then!

Simon · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2005, 10:59 »

It's amazing that companies like Bush are still going. These days, they are seen as the very lower end of the market, but I had a Bush TV from Radio Rentals, back in about 1984, that lasted 16 years with no maintenance whatsoever, and had a fantastic picture right to the end. The thing that killed it was simply the on / off switch, which possibly could have been replaced, if I had looked in the right places, but it gave me the excuse to move on to widescreen.

Serenity · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:07 »

Quote from: "Simon"

The thing that killed it was simply the on / off switch, which possibly could have been replaced, if I had looked in the right places, but it gave me the excuse to move on to widescreen.

Well I don't possess an anorak either thank goodness :twisted: but all due respect to the saddoes out there for keeping us informed of these sites :whistle: :wink:

Simon, I've had a Toshiba wide screen tv for about 18 months now and I STILL dislike it, everyone looks squat and fat even though Ive changed the dimensions soo many times... I wish I'd never bought one now :roll:

Sandra · « **Reply #13 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:12 »

Is this when watching from your Sky box only or from the analogue channels as well as the VCR and the DVD :?
If its only when watching Sky then you need to change the settings in the Sky box menu

Simon · « **Reply #14 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:29 »

Quote from: "Serenity"

Simon, I've had a Toshiba wide screen tv for about 18 months now and I STILL dislike it, everyone looks squat and fat even though Ive changed the dimensions soo many times... I wish I'd never bought one now :roll:

I remember having this conversation 18 months ago when you bought it, Bev. As Sandra said, you should only need to adjust the screen setting in your Sky Digibox to 16:9 (Widescreen), and your TV should automatically detect the correct ratio. You are connecting your digibox to the TV with a scart lead, yes? Not being funny, but in case you don't know, this is a scart lead:-

You will not get proper widescreen pictures from a normal TV ariel coax lead, nor will you get true widescreen from a terrestrial analogue signal. i.e. direct from the TV ariel.