where did the shut off dot go?

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Originally Posted by crtfool

On a side note for the original topic - my Grandparents had an old B&W console set when I was a little kid in the 60's. It had a hole burned in the phosphors at the center of the screen - that TV scared the crap out of me everytime I went near it!!

Maybe you saw "The Twonky" movie when you were a kid, too? The old Zenith we had like in my avatar had a dot that would fade away after turn-off. Spooked the heck out of me after seeing "The Twonky" on the Dialing for Dollars movie one morning.