reactor
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This month is my GE tv's 34th birthday. I purchased it new, in late '85, through a phone-in buying service, before the days of the internet. The service had a database of retailers, you just called them with your item, brand and model number and they gave you the best price and ordered it. Mine was shipped from a retailer in New York.
I had seen this model in a GE electronics brochure that GE had sent me and I fell in love with it. It was their top of the line model. First year that General Electric offered extensive models of stereo TV's throughout their console lineup.
No repairs, as of yet. However, I quit using it as a daily driver almost four years ago, when I finally bought a LED big screen. It's in the bedroom now and I still watch it oftentimes at night while I am in bed (using a DTV converter for broadcast viewing.) GE's electronics were superb. I also have a 1982 non-stereo General Electric console, which I purchased about ten years ago, for the guest room. It works flawlessly as well. (Another testimony to GE's electronics are the 30+ year old GSD 2800 dishwashers I have had. Never had a single component nor circuit board failure in any one of them.)
The TV was fairly advanced with two antenna inputs and two AV (video/stereo) inputs, all selectable from the remote control. It had AV video/stereo output for taping with the VCR and on screen wording display of functions. Selectable tuner input for cable or air broadcasts. Two woofers and two tweeters with crossover. the sound quality and bass output blows my big screen sound away.
It also had the VIR II, the improved version of the system GE won an Emmy Award for, for excellence in technical achievement. It retrieves color and picture informative from the studio (hedden in the signal as reference for TV stations to adjust their equipment.) The tv adjusts its own controls for picture quality based on the network signal.
Sadly, in 1986/87 after GE's Welch (Neutron Jack) purchased RCA, he stopped production of tv's by General Electric and used RCA chassis sets with the GE logo. Of course, even more sadly in 1987 Welch destroyed RCA and sold it divisions off.
Thomson Consumer electronics purchased GE's Audio and Electronics Division as well as parts of RCA in July, 1987. Thomson produced all GE and RCA sets from that point on and paid a licensing fee to GE to continue the use of the GE and RCA logos.
The picture looks better in person, for some reason my digital camera puts lines in the image.
Hope it keeps working for another 30 years! Although I most likely won't be living to see it, ha.
I had seen this model in a GE electronics brochure that GE had sent me and I fell in love with it. It was their top of the line model. First year that General Electric offered extensive models of stereo TV's throughout their console lineup.
No repairs, as of yet. However, I quit using it as a daily driver almost four years ago, when I finally bought a LED big screen. It's in the bedroom now and I still watch it oftentimes at night while I am in bed (using a DTV converter for broadcast viewing.) GE's electronics were superb. I also have a 1982 non-stereo General Electric console, which I purchased about ten years ago, for the guest room. It works flawlessly as well. (Another testimony to GE's electronics are the 30+ year old GSD 2800 dishwashers I have had. Never had a single component nor circuit board failure in any one of them.)
The TV was fairly advanced with two antenna inputs and two AV (video/stereo) inputs, all selectable from the remote control. It had AV video/stereo output for taping with the VCR and on screen wording display of functions. Selectable tuner input for cable or air broadcasts. Two woofers and two tweeters with crossover. the sound quality and bass output blows my big screen sound away.
It also had the VIR II, the improved version of the system GE won an Emmy Award for, for excellence in technical achievement. It retrieves color and picture informative from the studio (hedden in the signal as reference for TV stations to adjust their equipment.) The tv adjusts its own controls for picture quality based on the network signal.
Sadly, in 1986/87 after GE's Welch (Neutron Jack) purchased RCA, he stopped production of tv's by General Electric and used RCA chassis sets with the GE logo. Of course, even more sadly in 1987 Welch destroyed RCA and sold it divisions off.
Thomson Consumer electronics purchased GE's Audio and Electronics Division as well as parts of RCA in July, 1987. Thomson produced all GE and RCA sets from that point on and paid a licensing fee to GE to continue the use of the GE and RCA logos.
The picture looks better in person, for some reason my digital camera puts lines in the image.
Hope it keeps working for another 30 years! Although I most likely won't be living to see it, ha.
