Happy Thanksgiving on CTC-5
 

oooh nice....

So nice.

I spent 15 of my first 17 years watching the Thanksgiving day parade on a CTC11. Great memories.

John

Sweet.

How are you watching that program on a TV which is set up for the television system that existed before DTV? I do not see a cable box anywhere near your television, and I cannot otherwise imagine how you are getting anything over the air on a set that old, especially with rabbit ears.

I have a combo DTV converter / file reader (outside the picture). The base image was copied off the internet and I added the lettering in Photoshop, then copied the file to a USB stick to feed the converter.

EDIT:
CAUTION: In case you are thinking of buying one: The unit supplies 12 V power on the antenna input. You are supposed to be able to turn it off in the menu system, but it would reset itself to ON. I had to install a DC-blocking connector in the antenna feed.
The unit includes an RF modulator. You do not need a separate one.

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Thanks for the cautionary note. Was thinking of buying one.

OK... you JUST made me fall out of my chair! I was watching the playback of the 2020 The Early Television Foundation meeting on YouTube, and when I heard you say " go back to that picture that looks like a prototype Dalek,," I nearly died laughing !

YES, I have seen EVERY episode of Dr Who there is to see.

I have met.
Jon Pertwee.
Patrick Troughton
Peter Davison
anthony ainley
Elisabeth Sladen
Louise Jameson
Nicholas Courtney
John Levene
to name a few!

Live CTC-16LX version.

https://i.imgur.com/ZYqjnmc.jpg

STILL can't get a good pic with the cell cam. :( AND the cable box is doing letterbox format by default, but this was a live shot.

:thmbsp:

I can't see Yamamaya42's replies. That is, I can see the text of his replies, but when I click on the link to imgur.com I get nothing. I do see images, etc. on all other posts which have links to image sites. Is there some problem with imgur.com which is blocking me from seeing these images?

Thanks much.

Wish I could help, but I've never had any trouble with Yamamaya42's imagur pictures.

That last one of the parade this morning looks very good.

Not quite Thanksgiving images but earlier this week I did run both of my CTC5s at once...The occasion was me installing a weak (like needs a brightnener to have red weak) 21AXP22 into the red one and installing the 21FBP I had retrofitted into it a few years ago into a Packard Bell combo....Thus confirming my retrofit was %100 reversible.
Pictures are before switching back to the ADP, after, the glass conversion kit I pieced together, and the packard bell showing that their CRT mounting hardware makes its own test jig and how good the glass CRT out of the 5 was (aside from a pea sized dead spot near the edge of the screen).

Happy Thanksgiving 2021!

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Excellent. Happy Thanksgiving to you and all.

I decided to post early to give time to anyone else who might want to contribute to the theme - hint, hint.

Happy thanxgiving everyone :)

and :D
2021 CTC 16XL version!

https://i.imgur.com/x9HidBz.jpg

Had to get some green in there!
https://i.imgur.com/x9HidBz.jpg

Nice!

Happy CTC-5 Thanksgiving!

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My 5 isn't exactly in the most glamorous setting and the convergence and and other adjustments have drifted since I parked it there last year, but what the hay happy turkey day.

Gorgeous

Yesterday’s Macy Thanksgiving parade.

https://visions4netjournal.com/wp-co...D78874733.jpeg

Fun!

I recorded the CBS version. I always moan about how much time they spend on commercials and actor interviews, but at least in the later part of the broadcast they did delayed presentation of a lot of the things they missed during the first part.

Since when did the Macy Thanksgiving parade get so full of lip syncing auto tuned crap from artists that nobody has ever heard from before or could care less about?

Did it not used to be about the PARADE and the floats? And not some has-been singers who don't matter? They seem to focus WAY too much on them now.

Which network? I gave up on NBC some time back with all their staged stuff in front of Macy's store.

Wayne, your Happy Thanksgiving 2021 photo is so very sharp. Was that a DSLR camera shot? By the way, it’s very nice too.

Thank you.

Canon 5D Mark IV, 1/30 second at f/4, ISO 2500, EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM with stabilization off, at 31mm.
Camera on tripod with shutter release cable. Auto focus point set to TV screen.
I would normally take a long exposure at ISO 200 to avoid noise, but I had partially shut down and reset the camera to auto ISO when I decided to take this shot with some changes to room lighting.

In Lightroom:
Profile: Camera Faithful;
Cropped to 6021x3387 (16x9);
Custom white balance: Temp = 4544, Tint = +10;
Highlights reduced -100; Shadows increased +47,; Texture increased +47; Clarity slightly increased +19;
Sharpening and Detail at default values, no noise reduction.
Lens correction ON.

Linked photo is the 1024x576 version on Flickr.

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Another well-preserved thermionic time capsule. Love it.

I'm not sure what network it was, perhaps NBC, not sure, was at my mom's and all that I know, is that they kept changing focus away from the parade proper, and more on to the useless has-been "celebrities" on the floats BADLY lip-syncing to blatantly obliviously piped in recorded music, and hardly showed much parade.

and the commentary was inept and boring.