Beauty at CES

[TreyWingbat]

I saw this beauty of a TV at CES. Rumour has it that it'll be out next quarter:



480i, with a channel changing remote included!

 

[Jimbo]

I saw this beauty of a TV at CES. Rumour has it that it'll be out next quarter:



480i, with a channel changing remote included!

Looks like the old Montgomery Wards TV we use to have when I was a kid, it was actually pretty cool, you could tune the channels individually, which allowed us to tune in the old Channel 100 !

 

[mcintire123]

Wonder if a 720 version is in the works..

 

[RandallA]

My dad had an RCA like that one back in the late 80s. My brother is still using it just because it belonged to my dad so he doesn't want to get rid of it. Still going!

 

[stimpson]

Wonder if a 720 version is in the works..

720 lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JamesJ]

I saw this beauty of a TV at CES. Rumour has it that it'll be out next quarter:



480i, with a channel changing remote included!

wait, is that a drawer to store your remotes and other goodies? and speakers? what are they going to think of next?

 

[stardust3]

You can ask any installer on here & they will vouch to still hooking up these kinds of TV's.
I made a comment in 1 of the other threads regarding the non existence of an rf output on the hopper & joey. Someone responded back saying there would not be any customers with analog TV's signing up for this new service. Who is kidding who, tons of dish customers still own analog TV's. It would be like SOPA & PIPA getting their way, pulling down all porn sites & say "Ok folks we've shut down internet porn & eradicated pedophiles, perverts, wackos & sex addicts". You serious? Oh Thank goodness.
My analogy probably isn't the best, but you all get the point. Analog TV's will probably be used long after most of us are pushing daisy's.

 

[Jimbo]

wait, is that a drawer to store your remotes and other goodies? and speakers? what are they going to think of next?

No, thats not a drawer, just made to look like it.

Can you imagine getting on the floor to get anything in and out of it ....
The SINGLE speaker is directly below the channel tuner section.

You would have thougt they would have put one on both sides, they had room, but they didn't.

 

[navychop]

There wasn't stereo TV back then, eh?

 

[rglore]

That looks exactly like the Heathkit color TV I built way back. It had little motors on the channel and volume knob shafts that the remote operated. That was before integrated circuits (ICs). The kit came with bags of thousands of parts and dozens of empty circuit boards and spools of wire.

 

[Jimbo]

There wasn't stereo TV back then, eh?

This was what, mid '70's ?

 

[navychop]

That looks exactly like the Heathkit color TV I built way back. It had little motors on the channel and volume knob shafts that the remote operated. That was before integrated circuits (ICs). The kit came with bags of thousands of parts and dozens of empty circuit boards and spools of wire.

Wow. I did a few Heath kits, including a couple of H89s (that I souped up). Don't think I would have wanted to build a TV like that!

 

[TheForce]

My dad had an old RCA tube set but it had the 21" round tube. He was still using it when we sold the place and contents in 2009. Don't know what the new owners did with it. Dad had a big box of tubes in the basement he would replace when they went bad. Amazing the capacitors never went bad. They don't build them like that anymore.

 

[JamesJ]

No, thats not a drawer, just made to look like it.

Can you imagine getting on the floor to get anything in and out of it ....
The SINGLE speaker is directly below the channel tuner section.

You would have thougt they would have put one on both sides, they had room, but they didn't.

we had one at our house for the longest time...I was too young to remember if the drawer came out...i will vouch for the heaviness though.

 

[Neutron]

I am so glad TVs have come a long way since then...

 

[Jimmerinwi]

I remember back in the day going to Walgreens with my Dad to use their "tube tester" to check our tv tubes when the console went on the fritz. Used to be great to be able to fix your own tv most of the time by replacing a tube. They sure don't make 'em like that anymore. Stuff now is made to break and with the price of cheap electronics nowadays, it's actually cheaper to buy new than fix the broken one.

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[jayn_j]

When I bought the current house, there was one of these sitting in the family room that they offered to leave behind. I declined Unfortunately, they didn't offer to leave the Victrola that was also there.