Throwback Tech on DVD TV shows (1 Viewer)

[John*Wells]

Whats the thing you notice the most about Classic TV on DVD That is minimal today? For me its the communications tech. Hardline Telephones or a CB Radio

 

[jcroy]

In general, forensics without dna and computers.

 

[rjd0309]

Station wagons, telephone booths.

 

[Tony Bensley]

Apart from the already above mentioned, probably the overhead Elmo projectors.

 

[John*Wells]

I was watching Law&order season 4 last night and noticed a Typewriter lol.

 

[HubbaBubbaKid]

answering machines (like Rockford’s) .

video tapes / vhs players .

console stereos / record players

8 track/ cassette players

floor model tube tv’s , small black and white tv’s

manual cashiers machines

 

[The Obsolete Man]

floor model tube tv’s

I like Henry Spencer's solution in Psych... his flat screen TV is sitting on top of the old busted floor model CRT.

 

[Doug Wallen]

Phone booths and phone books,
big cars,
real obvious stunt doubles looking nothing like the stars. How did I not notice this growing up ?

 

[Rick Thompson]

Throwback tech? How about Frank Cannon's mobile phone ("Mobile operator, this is . . .") in that Lincoln Continental? You could probably make five Hyundais (or 9 Cooper Minis) with the metal from that beast!

 

[bmasters9]

Throwback tech? How about Frank Cannon's mobile phone ("Mobile operator, this is . . .") in that Lincoln Continental?

Or others that had mobile phones in their cars, like the Harts on Hart to Hart?

 

[Harry-N]

Even newer shows suffer from things like flip phones, and CRTs for desktop computers,

 

[DeWilson]

Even newer shows suffer from things like flip phones, and CRTs for desktop computers,

Gibbs still uses a flip phone on NCIS and it's 2020!

 

[Harry-N]

The TV series LOU GRANT features a bunch of outdated tech items. When the series started, every writer was using a typewriter to submit his stories. Reporters in the field raced each other to grab available phone booths. And when they finally upgraded to "video display terminals" they were giant, clunky things.

A lot of people have disparaged the series by calling it outdated, I find it easy to slip into the time-frame of the era in which it was made.

 

[Jack P]

I would say the one technology we have that would render good story plots of the past obsolete, it's a cell phone. Think of the TV movie "Duel" for instance.