• chingadera
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      2 days ago

      Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?

      Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.

      • VieuxQueb
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        32 days ago

        It’s crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.

    • LumpyPancakes
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      92 days ago

      We had to get a VCR in order to get our fifth channel - it was on UHF which our National Panacolor TV could not receive.

    • @Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      62 days ago

      I was so confused when i found out not everyone had channel 5. And we had the vhs tuned to 5 on the tv so channel 5 was on 6…

    • @NKBTN@feddit.uk
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      22 days ago

      It would’ve been, but I didn’t get it until the mid/late 2000’s. First I lived in Herts which only got it if you had Sky, then just before it came out there, I moved to Brighton, where it wasn’t allowed because it interfered with radio signals along the north coast in France. Still not sure if I’ve ever watched anything on Channel 5.