Televisions

[supremewhirlpol]

We need a television thread. How many TV's do you have? Have you had any issues with them? Please post pictures if you can.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

I have a 2005 36" Sony Trinitron CRT TV. Has very nice picture and is very heavy. There's just something about the quality of a heavy CRT compared to those Plasmas and LCD TV's. I'll try to get a picture in here later.

 

[ronhic]

We've....

...3 of varying ages...

- 1982 30 cm (12") AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) which is just fantastic....

- 1998 51cm (22") NEC

- 2008 127cm (50") Samsung HD plasma

 

[xraytech]

We have a 19" Zenith from 1989
a 21" Sylvania from 1999
and my Favorite our Montgomery Wards Signature 27" console from 1984

 

[circlew]

GE

One TV here, a GE with June 1991 manufacture date. Has been very reliable.

 

[countryguy]

3 TVs here - a 26" RCA cabinet console from the mid 80s, a 2009 Samsung 40" LCD flat panel and a 2007 Toshiba 32" flat panel.

Gary

 

[whirlcool]

We have a 2004 Sony 36" WEGA set. You are right, these are very heavy sets. This one weighs probably about 160lbs or so. Two people are required to lift it with great effort.

And in the kitchen we have a 1969 Zenith B&W portable. It still works fine, even though we had to get an adapter for it.

 

[whitekingd]

I have two 21" Packard Bell consoles from 1953, both still in working order. A small Sansui that is about 9 years old, and a Magnavox combo 27" from 2005.

 

[112561]

WOW! I got color tee vee!

My livingroom television is a 1996 RCA stereo console. It is suffering from convergeance, according to an electronics fan. My bedroom tv is a 19" '87 Zenith stereo table model with all the bells and whistles, and acres of fake woodgrain. Sounds fantastic with a pair of Circle Of Sound speakers plugged in. The third set is the twin of the dying 13" '87 Zenith System 3. The original set was purchased new in Jetson's Home Appliances, the second clone was picked up in Goodwill for $15. I have three 9" Zenith cubes, one pink, and two white. I have many little portables, the latest being a three inch Toshiba with an AM FM radio.

Ad for 1965 GE stereo theatre-never knew they made one.

 

[douglasdc6]

On the newer side its Sony for me.

Back in the early 1970`s my parents took me to an appliance store Where I saw the new Sony Stereo`s & the new Sony Trinitron tv`s - It was love at 1st sight .

Took me 3 summers mowing yards & washing cars to pay off the Sony`s I still have them , Geez were they expensive.

Don`t know where sony compares now days but back in the 1970`s the Sony Trinitron was the best money could buy.

I have 2 Sony Trinitrons & one Sony stereo.

 

[112561]

I have a Sony Trinitron portable, and two small black and wh

Keep those Sonys, I love their products. There is a pressed board large Sony Trinitron table tv in our St. Vincent de Pauls, $60, but it's not feasable to take it on here at the moment.

 

[petek]

We have a new Samsung 40" LCD, great set, fab picture as well an Akai 32" LCD,, not quite as good a picture and the sound is awful on it unless you run it thru your cable box or a receiver for some reason.

Vintage wise I got rid of that beautiful portable Sony Trinitron I used to have back in Calgary.. sorry I did that now. I also have the Panasonic pop up tv/radio somewhere still boxed away. Oh and a little Radio Shack B/W handheld from the 80's Now theres no over the air analog broadcasting it won't pick up anything.

 

[rp2813]

We have a 46" Sharp panel with built-in Blue-Ray player. We just got HD added to our Dish Network service last week. It's really amazing. Watching TV is a novelty again.

We have other sets, one more flat panel in the breakfast room and a couple of CRT types, including a 27" Sony that's about a dozen years old.

In the guest room I have the 1950 Admiral consolette, a 10" round CRT behind "double D" shaped window in a bakelite cabinet. It's hooked up to a digital converter and gets only over-the air broadcasts via the decades-old rooftop antenna. That one is a novelty of an entirely different variety.

 

[lordkenmore]

Currently, I'm using a small (14 inch or less) Sharp TV/VCR combo that was lying around when I moved in. It's not my dream--it's a little small, and color isn't quite right--but it's passable for the moment. I mainly use it to watch DVDs from the library and VHS tapes from the library friends sale and thrift shops. I don't watch broadcast TV--signal is poor out here, and I'm not interested in coughing up money for cable. I'm giving thought to upgrading to a better CRT. I have liked the plasma sets I've seen, but really can't see spending $500 on up on a TV, and really good older CRT sets are cheap.

I've also considered vintage. I'd had the fantasy of having an old tubed set that I could have turned on when the analog shut down occurred last year. But none came my way, and, as I said, TV reception is bad. (Although, at least back in analog days, something came through.)

Years back, The New Yorker had a cartoon that showed discussed an advantage of vintage TV sets. The person in the cartoon is pointing out the old black and white set that they kept for watching colorized movies.

 

[mattl]

A 50" and a 42" plasma, and a 40" LCD all new in the past 8 months. 32" Panny 4x3 and a 27" Sony trinitron from the early 80's. and a great non-working RCA 38" HD tv that died prompting the purchase of the new stuff. Got a 27" color Heathkit in the attic somewhere that I built as a kid. Got assorted 15", 19", 20" sets in the attic and closets around the house, really should get rid of them. All work but i would not spend any time watching any of them any more, HD has spoiled me. If it's not in HD I won't watch it 98% of the time. Even deleted all the non-HD channels from my SAT boxes...

 

[DADoES]

 
Panasonic 42" plasma (720p) bought end of Sept 2002.

RCA 20" CRT bought in March 1988.

Magnavox 27" CRT of unknown age that was given to me.

Had a 27" JVC CRT that went to the grandmother when I got the plasma, and was subsequently stolen from her. The JVC was bought sometime around 1992-1993.

 

[douglasdc6]

Since were on the subject of Sony

Here`s a few pictures of some 1970`s sets .

I`ve had these awhile so pardon the dust.

My Aunt claims she bought this stereo 8 track back in 1971 - She gave it to me 7 years ago .

This one brings back alot of memories.

 

[douglasdc6]

These are all 12 inch portables

This one I think is from around 1971 or 72

 

[douglasdc6]

This one is from 1975

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