"On TV”

Papi,

ON TV went back into the 70's. I had a modified box a friend gave me. Worked decent, but was not at all reliable. I think it was related to signal strength.

I can recall a cable channel 25-30 yrs. ago, that showed adult content in scrambled form (can't recall its name now). If you waited a while, you could actually discern what was going on, on screen. Every so often, the scrambled image would freeze long enough to see that there was clearly a naked woman visible, but it wasn't worth the effort to devote a lot of time trying to watch--certainly not for masturbatory purposes.

Is this what you guys are talking about?

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LOL shadow - right on - even the part of getting busted by one's mom LOL.

“… but it wasn't worth the effort to devote a lot of time trying to watch …”

When one is 12 or 13 years old w/ raging hormones and that (“ON TV”) is the only access you have to seeing live (vs. photos) naked women, one “makes the effort” :)

Hell, ON TV is what got me started with electronics. Had to fix that broken channel!

sc,

That was it in "normal" un-decoded form, but with a modified box, it was a lot better.

If one is old enough remember the really old days of cable, the Lifetime Network used to devote Sundays to "Lifetime Medical Television" meant for medical professionals. (Why they would expect doctors to watch educational television on their only day off is quite the mystery).

Anyway, if one was lucky, you could find a segment on breast exams. That was indeed desperate times.

Deogol,

Where you able to fix it where you could actually see the action w/o paying for the service. Do you remember how you went about it?

Clubber - I had a pirated box too. :)

That technology is long ago - it's all digitally encrypted these days... and free on the internet.

motor,

Our first TV got like 3-4 channels at most ant was about a 12" screen. Also, we had one of the first color TV's in town, About 20 people came over to watch Bonanza in color (mostly green).

Anyone remember what is likely the first game played on a TV?

We got our first TV in 1952. Only 1 TV station. KTLA and it's still an independant station in L.A.

Never heard of it until you posted this. It appears to have only been in certain markets and was gone from Chicago (its last market) in 1985, before I lived in the area. Of course, knowing my dad, he would have avoided getting this were we able to get it.

Motorhead: I was up early one Sunday and Lifetime Medical was discussing the latest in Ultrasound technology -- the internal vaginal ultrasound probe. It looked just like a dildo and they demonstrated it on several women two of whom were early in pregnancy, two who were not. Quite interesting especially when they moved the probe around to "view different angles".

So, no ideas from anyone?

From above post.

"Anyone remember what is likely the first game played on a TV?"

Is wrestling a game? Because I know I watched a lot of it on our first TV.

My first thought was a boxing match

I was speaking of video games, not sports. :)

Probably "Pong" then.

deogol,

Many years before Pong. I would say about 60 years ago.

"Tennis for two"

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sc,

Nice try, but no. I checked and my choice beats yours by 5 years.