"Howard" wrote in message
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"Dr. Personality" wrote in
:

In
the 50's, smoking Camels because John Wayne did was cool, now people
aren't
quite that stupid.

You obviously aren't, but I think you overestimate the intelligence of the
product placement's target market.

Advertising methodology is continuously and exhaustively researched. If an
ad makes it to TV, the chances are very high that it will be effective, even
though it might turn some small percentage of people off to the product.

"Don Jennings" wrote in message
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"Randy S." wrote...
So is this the new advertising model?

As others have written, not new at all. It used to annoy me that we were
always treated to a prolonged shot of the Ford emblem whenever Efrem
Zimbalist Jr. first pulled onto the scene in the FBI in 1965. Not only
did we not have TiVo, I'm not sure we had a remote!


No remote? Yeah, right! How did you turn it on, change channels , volume,
etc? Open the back and rewire it? Sheesh, next thing you'll be telling us
that earlier TVs didn't have color or something.

Adam Corolla wrote:
No remote? Yeah, right! How did you turn it on, change channels , volume,

That's what children are for. I can still hear it... "Stephen, can you
switch to BBC1".... "Stephen, can you switch to channel 4".

The first TV we had with a remote... "Stephen, the remote is by the TV;
can you switch to BBC1"...

--
Stephen Harris

The truth is the truth, and opinion just opinion. But what is what?
My employer pays to ignore my opinions; you get to do it for free.

"Stephen Harris" wrote in message
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Adam Corolla wrote:
No remote? Yeah, right! How did you turn it on, change channels ,
volume,

That's what children are for. I can still hear it... "Stephen, can you
switch to BBC1".... "Stephen, can you switch to channel 4".

The first TV we had with a remote... "Stephen, the remote is by the TV;
can you switch to BBC1"...

LOL


Stephen Harris

The truth is the truth, and opinion just opinion. But what is what?
My employer pays to ignore my opinions; you get to do it for free.

LOL

My parents FIRST TV (and I remember watching it) was a 1946 RCA Victor
console unit with Hi-Fi.....not only did it NOT have color,it did not
have a remote either....and believe it or not(!) you had to change
channels and volume by actually WALKING UP TO THE
TV and turning knobs!! (Gasp!) There were NO recording video devices
either.
And to top it off,there were ONLY TWO (2!) TV stations to tune
to......one VHF and one UHF.
That was it....that is all you had! I bet you erudite techies could not
have survived in such a situation.

I live in the Pacific Northwest.I was a child at the time.The station
you mentioned,KPTV 12/27 WAS one of the stations I watched on it.
I barely remember the programs I saw on it.
The TV itself had a cherry wood cabinet with brass ring "knockers" on
the front doors that hid the TV screen.The screen itself was oddly
shaped too.It had "circular" sides with flat top and bottom.The UHF dial
was separate from the VHF dial.It had a "U" on the VHF dial to switch to
that band.The UHF had no "click" stops either like the VHF dial did to
demarcate the channel positions.And of course,the Hi-Fi (phonograph) was
mounted horizontally in a sunken cabinet to the right. It played
33=B9/=B3,45,and 78 rpm vinyl records.It was considered "state of art"
at the time my grandparents owned it.
Apologies to TIVO posters for this trip down memory lane....

In article , SAC 441
wrote:

I live in the Pacific Northwest.I was a child at the time.The station
you mentioned,KPTV 12/27 WAS one of the stations I watched on it.
I barely remember the programs I saw on it.
The TV itself had a cherry wood cabinet with brass ring "knockers" on
the front doors that hid the TV screen.The screen itself was oddly
shaped too.It had "circular" sides with flat top and bottom.The UHF dial
was separate from the VHF dial.It had a "U" on the VHF dial to switch to
that band.The UHF had no "click" stops either like the VHF dial did to
demarcate the channel positions.And of course,the Hi-Fi (phonograph) was
mounted horizontally in a sunken cabinet to the right. It played
33¹/³,45,and 78 rpm vinyl records.It was considered "state of art"
at the time my grandparents owned it.
Apologies to TIVO posters for this trip down memory lane....


My parents had a 21" RCA Victor b&w set they were very proud of. They
bought it in 1952, I think, two years after they were married. It was
furniture, with doors you could close over the screen. Apparently
people back then thought TV sets were ugly and tried to disguise them
as, I don't know, big wodden boxes you put plants on top of.

The set broke down every six months. I suspect the components
overheated, because there was black condensation of some sort, like a
light soot, on the wall behind the set.

The speaker was rather large and was placed under the screen. You
could remove it and disconnect the wire leads very easily. We never
did connect a Blabbo or anything. A Blabbo was a little device that
was connected to the speaker by wires, and you could mute the TV with
it. There were ads in TV Guide for Blabbo.

The channel tuner was a round dial with points at opposite ends, kind
of like the hands of a clock reading 6:30. Each channel would clunk
into place as you turned the dial. I would lounge around in front of
the set and change the channel with my foot by hooking my first and
second toes around the dial and turning it.

We got a 25" Sears color set in 1966. Dual mono speakers. It broke
down even more frequently than the RCA, but it was really big, so every
year we put the Christmas Nativity on top of it.

Still waiting for 3D and Smell-O-Vision.

In article , Dr. Personality wrote:
In article , SAC 441
wrote:

I live in the Pacific Northwest.I was a child at the time.The station
you mentioned,KPTV 12/27 WAS one of the stations I watched on it.
I barely remember the programs I saw on it.
The TV itself had a cherry wood cabinet with brass ring "knockers" on
the front doors that hid the TV screen.The screen itself was oddly
shaped too.It had "circular" sides with flat top and bottom.The UHF dial
was separate from the VHF dial.It had a "U" on the VHF dial to switch to
that band.The UHF had no "click" stops either like the VHF dial did to
demarcate the channel positions.And of course,the Hi-Fi (phonograph) was
mounted horizontally in a sunken cabinet to the right. It played
33¹/³,45,and 78 rpm vinyl records.It was considered "state of art"
at the time my grandparents owned it.
Apologies to TIVO posters for this trip down memory lane....


My parents had a 21" RCA Victor b&w set they were very proud of. They
bought it in 1952, I think, two years after they were married. It was
furniture, with doors you could close over the screen. Apparently
people back then thought TV sets were ugly and tried to disguise them
as, I don't know, big wodden boxes you put plants on top of.

The set broke down every six months. I suspect the components
overheated, because there was black condensation of some sort, like a
light soot, on the wall behind the set.


Most likely that black soot was a mold growing on the wall due to moisture
from the plants being on op of the TV set.

Did any of you suffer any respiratory problems in life?


The speaker was rather large and was placed under the screen. You
could remove it and disconnect the wire leads very easily. We never
did connect a Blabbo or anything. A Blabbo was a little device that
was connected to the speaker by wires, and you could mute the TV with
it. There were ads in TV Guide for Blabbo.

The channel tuner was a round dial with points at opposite ends, kind
of like the hands of a clock reading 6:30. Each channel would clunk
into place as you turned the dial. I would lounge around in front of
the set and change the channel with my foot by hooking my first and
second toes around the dial and turning it.

We got a 25" Sears color set in 1966. Dual mono speakers. It broke
down even more frequently than the RCA, but it was really big, so every
year we put the Christmas Nativity on top of it.

Still waiting for 3D and Smell-O-Vision.

So that is why they put fart jokes in about every movie released nowadays!
Hmmm.....

"GMAN" wrote in message
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In article , Dr. Personality
wrote:
In article , SAC 441
wrote:

I live in the Pacific Northwest.I was a child at the time.The station
you mentioned,KPTV 12/27 WAS one of the stations I watched on it.
I barely remember the programs I saw on it.
The TV itself had a cherry wood cabinet with brass ring "knockers" on
the front doors that hid the TV screen.The screen itself was oddly
shaped too.It had "circular" sides with flat top and bottom.The UHF dial
was separate from the VHF dial.It had a "U" on the VHF dial to switch to
that band.The UHF had no "click" stops either like the VHF dial did to
demarcate the channel positions.And of course,the Hi-Fi (phonograph) was
mounted horizontally in a sunken cabinet to the right. It played
33¹/³,45,and 78 rpm vinyl records.It was considered "state of art"
at the time my grandparents owned it.
Apologies to TIVO posters for this trip down memory lane....


My parents had a 21" RCA Victor b&w set they were very proud of. They
bought it in 1952, I think, two years after they were married. It was
furniture, with doors you could close over the screen. Apparently
people back then thought TV sets were ugly and tried to disguise them
as, I don't know, big wodden boxes you put plants on top of.

The set broke down every six months. I suspect the components
overheated, because there was black condensation of some sort, like a
light soot, on the wall behind the set.


Most likely that black soot was a mold growing on the wall due to moisture
from the plants being on op of the TV set.

Did any of you suffer any respiratory problems in life?


The speaker was rather large and was placed under the screen. You
could remove it and disconnect the wire leads very easily. We never
did connect a Blabbo or anything. A Blabbo was a little device that
was connected to the speaker by wires, and you could mute the TV with
it. There were ads in TV Guide for Blabbo.

The channel tuner was a round dial with points at opposite ends, kind
of like the hands of a clock reading 6:30. Each channel would clunk
into place as you turned the dial. I would lounge around in front of
the set and change the channel with my foot by hooking my first and
second toes around the dial and turning it.

We got a 25" Sears color set in 1966. Dual mono speakers. It broke
down even more frequently than the RCA, but it was really big, so every
year we put the Christmas Nativity on top of it.

Still waiting for 3D and Smell-O-Vision.

So that is why they put fart jokes in about every movie released nowadays!
Hmmm.....

My folks had a TV set that was so old it didn't even have a screen. Just a
dial, which you could use to tune in audio-only signals.

In article , Adam Corolla
wrote:

In article , Dr. Personality
wrote:

My parents had a 21" RCA Victor b&w set they were very proud of. They
bought it in 1952, I think, two years after they were married. It was
furniture, with doors you could close over the screen. Apparently
people back then thought TV sets were ugly and tried to disguise them
as, I don't know, big wodden boxes you put plants on top of.

The set broke down every six months. I suspect the components
overheated, because there was black condensation of some sort, like a
light soot, on the wall behind the set.


Most likely that black soot was a mold growing on the wall due to moisture
from the plants being on op of the TV set.

Did any of you suffer any respiratory problems in life?


No plants on our set, although it was reasonable to assume so from what
I said. (There might have been some plastic grapes, though.) The
black spot was caused by heat from the set. Something inside it was
vaporizing slowly.

Whatever respiratory problems we have had were probably caused by
second-hand smoke. The TV was the least of our problems.