How the hell did people watch a 17 inch tv 15 feet across the room ?

How the hell did people watch a 17 inch tv 15 feet across the room ?

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i have so much aversion to the look of this room

It took lots of focus and was not submersible at all. When I was little we had a 27in TV and sat 8 feet away. I remember thinking 35in was HUGE

They paid attention to the TV very intently.

You just did. There wasn't really an alternative. Hell, most people now are idiots and still don't sit at an optimal distance from the screen, despite their larger sizes. The difference then between TV and cinema was paramount. You went to the movies to see anything in high fidelity, and TV was a definite b-tier. This has changed in the last decade with streaming and advances in screen technology, ushering in the golden age of television.

I have absolutely no fucking idea. I dont recall ever having issues seeing anything on one which is bizarre since I needed glasses when I was younger. The only time I really noticed is when my father got a slightly larger television for the living room and me and my brother were still stuck with a small CRT. Once you notice how much better it can be thats when it became an annoyance.

zoomity zoom zoom

You get used to whatever. Remember going 40" and thinking I'd made a huge mistake. It was too big, like it was a black hole sucking the entire room in and my eyes couldn't look away from it.

>his tv wasn't submersible
What did you do during monsoon season?

You had to. There was no alternative.

you were supposed to sit on the floor right next to the tv set while your mom wasn't looking

not be Indian

People had better eyes back then

It was kind of like how people play dwarf fortress, you just get used to imagining what was going on and filling in the blanks you couldn't see

Shit in the muddy street of course. Dry season is always better.

tv was like 144p back then, you could watch all the details from the other side of the room

We're just used to taking in FAR more visual detail these days. Back in those days there weren't UHD computer displays either.

The only thing you need to be big enough to make out small details are movies, and on old TVs you were just happy when one came on with commercial breaks. It wasn't about fidelity

15 feet was only like 7 feet back then

sorta true since we were smaller back then

that's because we were children

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we didn't, we sat 3 feet from the tv cross legged

no, because visual acuity decreases with age

I don't even know how I managed to watch things before HD. Whenever I look at old sports highlights, the difference is impossible to ignore. Even stuff from 10-15 years ago looks like absolute shit compared to now.

current hd movies will look like shit in 15 years when everything will be in 32K-per-eye HDR HFR VR

This looks just like the layout my Grandma had in her house. Her brother would always be in this lounge room watching the news with his schizo dog.

I miss those square TVs desu. I wouldn't mind buying a shitty TV like that and hooking my video player up to it and playing cheap tapes through that, but that might be a bad coping mechanism of me trying to escape back to a time that will never exist again...

A big part of it was direction - things were made be viewed on a tiny screen from 8 feet away. Look at sports from forty years ago to how - they’re super zoomed in to the action so you an still see what’s going on. Now you see half the field / pitch / court in one shot on your 60” monster

Imagine trying to watch something in 4:3 these days

>the golden age of television
The Golden Age of Television was 1991-2004.
No other shows will touch The Sopranos or The Simpsons or Voyager. Face facts kid, Better Call Saul is good, but purely a silver age show.

haha yeah just imagine...

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The Golden Age was when The Sopranos, The Wire, Rome and Deadwood were all airing simultaneously on HBO

I found my portable one the other day. It has a big divot in the top where I had a tealight candle on it and it ended up melting the plastic.

>mfw used to use it for surfing the internet with the Dreamcast

Now that was a real fucking chore.

Deadwood was based so I'll graciously extend the Golden Age to 2006.

pleb detected

it was a different time

weird isn't it?

i remember watching star wars trilogy for the first time on a 14inch TV and it absolutely blew me away. never felt anything less than 100% immersive despite the minute screen, pan and scan framing and shitty sound.

I used to lay on the ground with my feet on the entertainment center. Thought my parents were crazy for sitting a fathom away.

Feels weird to think about now to be honest. I had a 22 inch Sanyo in my room that I had a VCR, PS2, and GC hooked up to and remember things looking amazing on it. Now I have a giant TV in my entertainment room. Simpler times.

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isn't that 1.19:1 instead of Academy tho?

i miss these little niggas like you wouldn't believe

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look at this posh bumboy with his RCA cables who thinks he's too good for RF

>playing my PS3 with these hooked up to the TV

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he cute

>tfw having a hybrid dvd player/audio receiver and only needing a single yellow cable
good times

How many people here know what this is used for without looking it up?

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>RF
good times reaching around our family's monster crt and trying to screw that shit in

I'm 34. Of course I remember what those are for.

why was the SNES so much easier to screw in than the Genesis?

These were always unpleasant. Trying to crane your head behind a giant tube TV, trying to reach behind and guess with your hand which color is which. Getting them all plugged in and then realizing you fucked up the yellow and white cables because the holes look exactly the same.
HDMI is superior in every way.

People used to have good eyesight.

People just had a general idea of what was happening on the tv

Kind of miss it honestly though it is nice that a TV can be mounted to the wall.

That chest table looks like shit and it doesnt even look like they have a floor down

It stabilizes and restores picture quality for private home use only...although you may be able to also duplicate copyrighted video tapes with it.
HDMI is better than composite? Get out of here!

you just did and it gave people bad eyes

>implying I'll be watching movies when I could be having horsecock futa draenei VR sex

I can safely say I have no nostalgia for these motherfuckers

You have that backwards? I remember the Genesis' working like a plug. No screwing.

>there are anons on Yas Forums who never experienced being the human remote control who changes the channels and rewound the VHS tapes or he gets yelled at
>there are anons on Yas Forums who never experienced the VHS machine eating the tape and having to fix it

>Voyager
DS9 is about ten thousand times better than Voyager

>HDMI
no worries, we got that too

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You forgot pausing and adjusting tracking to get a screen pause of a girl. I paused a lot in the Goonies for Kerri Green panty shots.

>there are anons on Yas Forums who never experienced the VHS machine eating the tape and having to fix it
We had a VHS but this never happened to us

When I first got my PS3 there was something fucked about it and I literally couldn't get colour even though the same cables worked fine with my PSX and PS2. So I had to play PS3 games in black and white for like a year until I got a new TV.

>some anons on Yas Forums never saw a VHS that had melted in the car

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Well played,sir.

It's probably more likely to happen if you rented those VHS tapes.

We didn't rent a lot, just taped stuff from TV

And it aired during the golden age of television.

I'm just happy we don't use CRTs anymore. Carrying those shit around is very tiring.

Damn, that sucks. I gotta say, I've owned a PS2, PS3 and PS4 and I think the PS3 was the worst, idk why, a combination of a shit hud, weak game roster and ugly design. At least it had free online.