What are they hiding from us?!
Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.
davidgro@lemmy.world 3 days agoEven before the 2000s they started showing a blue screen instead of static.
That wasn’t just a digital or flat panel thing.
But of course old sets were around for a long time.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
My memory of the exacts here are fuzzy, but I think this depended on whether or not your TV picked up digital signal, analog, or both. I remember around that time we had a TV that would pick up static on some channels and have a blue input screen on others.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s definitelly an analog over the air TV thing.
The way digital works you would either get a “No signal” indicator (because the circuitry detects the signal to noise ratio is too low) or squarish artifacts (because of the way the compression algorithms for digital video are designed).
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I remember back in the Wii days when I was young we had a flat screen that would go to the digital pattern with no input. However sometimes once in a while it would get that static loud no signal so I think mine had both
I don’t really have a point here just wanted to share
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Yeah, for instance the semi-ubiquitous “small TV with a vhs player built in” that was in a ton of mini-vans and kids’ rooms well into the early 2000s only supported analog cable/antenna signals, so it would give the black and white static when there was no signal.
davidgro@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m talking long before digital channels existed. (In the US anyway)