When I was young, houses were houses and a fancy home had a second TV
I’m (quite) a bit older than you. When I was young, nobody I knew had a second TV, not even in fancy homes (at least of the kids I knew who had parents wealthier than mine). But the fancy homes did have a color TV, the rest of us only had black and white models. Back in the early to mid sixties, you could buy a plastic screen you that you’d put over the picture tube of your black and white TV that diffracted (I think that’s the term) the picture to produce colors. Really hokey and it tended to display bands or blotches of color unrelated to what was going on. Orange grass, blue people, whatever.
Sounds like something an early hacker would do :D
I haven't heard of that one, but I remember a couple people having screen magnifiers that would sit in front of the television so they could see it. I did a quick search and I think they are called Fresnel lenses.
We had a black and white TV and remember it and only realised when you went to a friends house who had color what you were missing out on lol. Our tv shut down at midnight and you were left with the test pattern until morning.