Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was “cable ready”. It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.
Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn’t heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn’t seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector which have existed since the 1920s.
Wow, interesting. I don’t think we had those in Australia. I was born in the very early 90s but my mum had a TV from the 1960s and it had a regular plug (like the one I linked to) for the antenna. Those prongs don’t seem user-friendly :)
It has dials. The kind that make an audible thunk when you change the channel. You think there’s really a chance of it being cable-ready?!
Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was “cable ready”. It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.
Transitional era technology is fun like that.
Prongs? I had to look that up since I hadn’t heard of a VHF/UHF connection with prongs before. That doesn’t seem very friendly compared to just using a regular plug? In Australia we used these connectors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling-Lee_connector which have existed since the 1920s.
These are the cables I was familiar with way back then.
Wow, interesting. I don’t think we had those in Australia. I was born in the very early 90s but my mum had a TV from the 1960s and it had a regular plug (like the one I linked to) for the antenna. Those prongs don’t seem user-friendly :)