Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The average person spends almost 10 years of their life watching TV.

The first VCR (Video Cassette Recorder) was made by Sony in 1970.

(14-01-2019 01:15 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  From 1967 to 1998, the BBC showed a static image of 8 year old Carole Hersee with a blackboard and toy clown known as Test Card F whenever a channel wasn’t on air.

And amazingly it is still used today.

On December 15th 1978 the first Laserdisc player,manufactured by Phillips went on sale in Atlanta,Georgia.The Magnavox 8000 cost $749 and the manufacturers were immediate besieged by customers complaining of technical issues.The first title on the system to be marketed in North America was Jaws.

Just noticed we've hit over 1,000 posts as well as 100 pages-bloody ell!
In Mork and Mindy there was a character who would return as Mr Bickley called Mr Wanker-the US not realising that in this country that means something completely different. However, it wasn't edited out when shown on Channel 4-but also wasn't edited for a repeat.

(14-01-2019 03:01 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Just noticed we've hit over 1,000 posts as well as 100 pages-bloody ell!

100 x 10 = 1000, who knew...

German Inventor Paul Nipkow managed to achieve static black and white television transmission with his famous ‘Electric Telescope’ in 1884.

About 1% of the static in between the channels of an FM radio or an old analog TV is leftover radiation from the Big Bang.

Most of the radio broadcasts delivered by Robin Williams in the film ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ were improvised.

The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be scrapped after 20 years. It only survived because the military started using it as a radio tower, intercepting crucial military transmissions during WW1.