tv and video

[cleo1]

someone says their was a tv with an remote control with a cable attacthed to the telly is this possible or is this made up, they are adament this is true

[Ethel]

This is perfectly true.

The first remote control units were plugged in to the tv on a long lead.

Here's the proof

http://www.tvhistory.tv/Remote%20Controls.htm

[spacechimp]

even I knew that, do keep up.

[Mattk]

My family's 1st video when I was growing up was a top loader with a wired remote control back in 1980 !

When some mates of mine got a flat together when they were about 17 they had a wooden remote control that looked remarkably like a pool cue !

[andy-hughes]

My first VHS was a top-loader with a cable remote - we thought it was dead sophisticated!

[smorodina]

...and how often I had to replace the cords because somebody had tripped over it and broken it! A fair number of the early vcrs had wired remotes. I don't think there was ever a wired remote for a tv marketed in the UK - at least on a mass scale - but the early ones, in the mid seventies, were ultra-sonic and they really used to upset people's cats.

[jon1968]

Yep, one of the first videos we had used a remote with a cable too.
And we had a telly with a �sonic� remote control which changed channels if you sneezed!

[Sequin]

My friend's parents had a sonic remote that changed channel just by making a loud click - unfortunately, they also had a parrot who soon learned to imitate it!