As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
As most of the other comments point out, pocket TV did exist and you have exposed yourself as:
- Younger than the smartphone
- Never watched a 90’s movie with a security guard in it
Both wrong
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1st smartphone Galaxy Spica age 26
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These TV wouldn’t fit in your jeans
You missed the point of my very unelaborate shower thought. I see how not being a thing could be understood as never existed. I meant a big thing like, you know, smartphones
I’m unsure what you think Netflix or YouTube TV are, but they are indeed on my smart phone, which goes in my pocket.
Watch season 1 episode 8 of friends, Joey has a pocket tv to watch the football game at a funeral.
And that was mid 90s, 10 years before the hand tablets of today.
(…)a big thing like, you know, smartphones
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I am old enough to remember portable tvs.
And actual pocket TVs. Interesting to see OP think they were never a thing. Don’t get me wrong, they were shit, but they did exist!
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Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?
Probably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn’t great.
Absolutely! (Same as playing a regular game on a Game Gear.)
I had both an AC adapter and a 12VDC car adapter for mine. Without those (considering the sorry state of rechargeables back then), the cost of batteries would’ve made actually using the damn thing untenable.
I mean they literally are, you can watch literally any tv show or movie on them so I don’t see a difference.
Sure but they aren’t TVs. A TV can normally only do TV shit.
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Sweet summer child. It was a thing.
There absolutely were pocket TV’s. As a kid, even, I owned two of them. They are now of course functionally useless because they predate the switch to digital television by a significant margin. Both of mine were Realistic brand ones, which was an in store label for Radio Shack. Color LCD displays, telescoping antenna, and they ran off of 4 AA batteries. They were about the size of an OG Gameboy or a large Walkman.
I might even still have one in a box of tech junk somewhere. I believe the second one was a Realistic Pocketvision 27.
You can still buy a portable digital TV. These were always a bit of a stretch for a “pocket” television, more the size of a small tablet but thicker. But they totally did, and still do, exist.
