Remember TV Tube Testing?

[Bozz10mm]

I'm curious how long ago that was. I have a Sony Trinitron, mfg. circa 1998. The audio comes on instantly, but I don't get a picture for around 10 seconds. Is this still a tube TV?

Andy

By 1998, I'm pretty sure everything was solid state. Those old tube models would take 30-45 seconds to warm up and stabilize. My fairly new Samsung big screen takes 5 seconds or so for the picture to show up.

 

[blackdeuce]

It's amazing how fast the technology has snowballed. Starting with class A, class A/B (push-pull) power amps/output sections, they are pushing past class S and class T amps.

I have done work using a tube driven pre-amp/modeler/effects processor stomp box no bigger than a small pizza box running directly into the board and neither I nor anybody else can pinpoint what I used.

There sure is some amazing technology out there and it's only getting better.

My son has an Axe FX that will replicate a ton of different guitar amps. You can even specify the types of tubes installed in the replicated amp. Pretty crazy.

 

[nocents]

if you get used to tube amp sound....almost everything after may sound a little tinny.....I just sold a McIntosh tube amp that Ive used for30 years.....so I up dated to one of my 25 year old solid state Realistic.....this STA-2100 isn't a bad compromise

 

[loknload]

Yeah I very well remember that, Getting drug down to the local five and dime of the day by my dad to test a tube so he and my uncle could watch the Friday night fights!
I also remember being the "remote control"

 

[Targets Guy]

I wish the tube testing stations were still in the hardware and grocery stores. My 1930's RCA needs a couple of new ones.

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[Jessie]

Yes, and I remember the screen test? symbol on the screen every night when the only 3 stations would shutdown for the night.
Wow! Only 3 stations, black and white, and they would quit broadcasting around midnight....ALL of them!

 

[joe44va]

That's one of many parts of the "good old days" that I'm happy are behind us.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Shades of the past. One thing that industry did right, was that every tube had a unique base, a combination of large and small prongs, so the various tubes couldn't be mixed up.
I like following cartoon from "Blondie":
Alexander: "Dad, the TV set is on the blink."
Dagwood : "OK, I'll call the repairman tomorrow."
Alexander: "Dad, it's cheaper to buy a new one."
Dagwood (looking at the reader): "For a moment I forgot what century I was living in."

 

[Walkingwolf]

We just called the TV repairman. But when I took my first LE job our terminal was just like this one.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[the ringo kid]

The earliest tv I remember we had-was an Admiral. When turned on-it was start as a small dot in the center of the screen-then the color would "fade" in. That reversed when turned off. The controls were on a slide? of some kind that retracted back into the set. I remember this set lasted into the 80s--was 50s? or early 60s? vintage. All the control knobs had colors--for color--sound-etc.
This one is the closest I can find an image of-that was like ours--but still nowhere near as fancy as ours was:

 

[colkid]

I worked on Arc-27 and Arc-38?? in the Navy.

 

[colkid]

I actually went to school in chicago in 1971 on the 33 and 35 teletypes.
The one in this picture looks like a 33 with the paper reader on the left side.
Our teletypes didn't have the phone setup.