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The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.
My mother had one of these. I got to use it as a hand-me-down as a teenager because my mother was abusive AF.
For clarity, the subject of the TV wasn't the abusive part. Her rationale of "I didn't have one when I was a kid so you don't get to have one while you're a kid" was. It didn't apply just to the TV.
or a new smaller tv sitting on top of the old, wood frame tv as a stand now
You mean scrambled porn, right?
I have an old mini tv(the kind that took C cell batteries) that can still pickup the good ol CMB!
I have seen this on a much newer TV last year. It didnt just disappear
Umm… I had a CRT until 2009 and even sold it to someone.
Was it just me or has anyone seen or make out patterns while staring at it? I sometimes found it amusing
Dude Flatscreen HDTVs were expensive even in 2008, and cable actually got worse for higher price so most people were hooked into local broadcast.
I had a CRT as our family's main TV until 2017
A high end CRT is a solid choice and was hard to replicate until recently.
Part of me wishes they still made them.
If they ever watch Poltergeist they'll know it's the TV people trying to get out.
Well, if they had watched any HBO show, they kind of saw it !
While I've grown up with CRTs (90's kid) I've never seen the actual static in real life, only simulations.
I don't think channels ever went out, and if the TV was listening to a connection that didn't give anything it just shone bright blue.
uhhh, yes i have? I'm pretty sure some of my younger cousins have lol
2007er here, I grew up with a CRT as the TV in our second living room, I'd occasionally watch stuff like Bob the builder and others, but since it was all on analog tv, channels started displaying lots of static, pretty much only like 2 or 3 channels were working last I saw.
Also we had that CRT TV until 2018, then chucked it in the store room, then threw it out in 2020, I kinda miss it, kinda don't, idk.