“We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. Do not try to adjust your set.”
Outer Limits. Always wondered how many people heard that intro and really believed they had lost control of their TV
especially when you can almost see titties on an hbo channel.
Or the tracking on a VCR.
Who remembers beating the shit out their TV to get red to work again? Different times
Ah, scrambled porn stations…
…I mean, no.
I remember… The before times.
Yep. I’m 55 and totally remember doing this. I also remember when channels would play the national anthem before they stopped broadcasting and it went to snow.
55 here next week. That was time to go to bed. Much like it is for me right now.
My grandparents’ beautiful wood console TV also had the more rare horizontal hold. I have many fond memories of watching Gunsmoke, Star Search, and Wheel of Fortune on the thing with my grandad.
This is before even my time, what does this do?
It controls the beam that forms the image. Basically when it’s set wrong it looks like the image is scrolling past the screen.
Ah, some kind of frequency timing modulation fiddler thingy I guess? I don’t know if you can tell I’m not in the field of electronics… 😎
