The blog where this link comes from is a retro look at lifestyles 30 to 60 years ago.

Here's a TV, admittedly not a run of the mill, but had some great ideas that would still be good for today :

http://thegikitiki.tumblr.com/post/1...-of-technology

Over the decades, visiting friends and family, they all spend considerable time in channel hopping to see whether it is time to switch channels, or to try and watch two channels at once, or to avoid the advertising, or some section of the news that they don't want to see.

Now with 3 mini screens, they wouldn't need to switch at all until the programme that they want begins. How much easier life would be !

And the speakers in those sets were good too - manufacturers of the high-end models actually TRIED to build decent sound in.

The only drawback with that technology was the push-buttons - they continually needed fine tuning because they were mechanical devices, that moved when they were operated ( if you follow me )...

But how good if the same ideas were available today... don't tell me that 80-inch 4K TVs can only display one channel at a time... ???

I still 1/2 live in the 1970s!

Good idea.

Then we got this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dOWSJ1Ipvg

The future seemed so exciting back then. Not sure where it all went wrong.

Here's a similar idea from the 1970s film Rollerball. Wall TV from Rollerball

Who inspired who, I wonder?

Some audiophiles still claim vinyl is the best ever format for listening to music.

But the rest of us have entered the 21st century!

I hope they don't think the noise from those awful cheap attaché case record players that are on sale everywhere at the moment is better than CD or even mp3.

They sound rotten!

Picture in Picture (PiP).
See what's on another channel while u keep on the current one.
Requires 2 tuners, or it did in the analogue days.

That idea was also based on the idea of working with an aerial signal. Many people now have a seperate sky/freesat/cable box - so PiP on those systems would be dependent on the box design. It should be possible since recorders (pvr's) have 2 or more tuners.

Most tv's in uk were mono sound with just the mains and aerial input. But a few were quite "cutting edge" having stereo ready speakers with Phonos or BNC connections to get a stereo feed into the tv (from a stereo source such as a Betamax vcr with stereo playback from pre-recorded tapes and matching BNC hook ups). There was no way to get a live stereo broadcast though - that didn't happen until Nicam sound was launched in UK. And when it did, those earlier stereo ready sets could not make use of it because they were not Nicam compatible....the best u could do was to plug in a Nicam vcr (if it had the same connections as the earlier tv). Another trick was to connect a stereo or Nicam stereo vcr to the hifi provided your vcr had the extra hifi hook ups - and provided your hifi had the necessary empty sockets). Stereo sound on the hifi speakers, and turn down the tv sound.

I don't think sir uncle clive sinclair really commuted to work every day in his c5 pedal bin .......... Tomorrow's World on tv was good fun, though .........