Little White Dot

[sp1814]

When my sister and I were younger, we would always run up to the TV when it was being switched off to watch the little white dot disappear into nothingness (okay, we didn't have a lot of money, so had to make our own amusement).

My question is this...whatever happened to it?

Why don't modern TV pictures fade to a little white dot anymore?

[ummmm]

Is that a serious question, Mikey?

[mibn2cweus]

I started fixing TVs about the time it became cheaper to buy a new set. Then I went into piano tuning. Now you can buy a new keyboard for about the same price as a tuning.

Do I know how to pick careers . . . or what!

[mccfluff]

seriously?

[RATTER15]

Mikey, just for you!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT26WPjZIwo

[Baldric]

The Cat we had at the time used to try and get the dot'
and when it disappeared would run around the back of the set to try and find it,
Stoopid animal!

[jno]

mikey, DJ for disc jockey has been in use since the 1950s. Has it been a while since you switched your crystal set on?

[Baldric]

Chambers

DISC JOCKEY noun someone who presents a programme of recorded popular music on the radio, at a disco, in a club, etc. Also called DJ.
ETYMOLOGY: 1940s.
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[belrec]

do you remember the test card girl? my little bro thought it was me on the TV because she looked like me :-)

[zebo]

If our little TV conked out, my Dad would tell us it was clogged up with dead cowboys and Indians, he watched a lot of westerns. Please don't lecture me on non-pc terms!

[mikey4444]

Yes seriously. If you use random abbreviations instead of words, you must expect the occasional question !

BB !

[mikey4444]

Thanks Baldric...if capital letters were used, like yours, I wouldn't have asked.