Posted on 12/18/2024 10:46:25 AM PST by Vendome
If you have an old or damaged tv to get rid of, check out this 19sec video.
https://xcancel.com/PlanetOfMemes/status/1869143208418214032#m
Lol
Ha. I used to have a computer business in my old warbox house in North Hollywood. Mildly sketchy neighborhood. When I had received a large shipment of gear, it would often spill out of my garage and onto the driveway. I never had any stuff stolen. But often, I would seal a bunch of crap I wanted to get rid of in a cardboard box and write “VCRs” on the side. Gone the next day, without fail.
Now then, my dad has three Hallicrafter shortwave radios - two work and the other is good for parts; from the early Fifties era.
I had the same Sony TV, bought it in tax free New Hampshire.
At the time was considered the best commercial CRT ever made.
It weighed almost 300 pounds lol
Yeah I remember that hair! I didn’t like it then and still don’t. Except for White Snake. lol.
Guess I’ll have to figure out how to squeeze an old tube-type into a flat-screen box. Maybe judicious use of a sledgehammer. I think the weight May give it away. Well, and the clatter of broken glass and parts.
Never Twice the Same Color
There is a fair contingent of tube-TV afficianados on YouTube. My favorite, a guy named Shango66 does these ghetto resurrections on trashed TVs and if you’re into electronics, it’s actually fairly interesting and fun. He enjoys the challenge of getting old TVs to work when virtually every component in them is either bad or massively drifted in value. He’s very good and he’ll teach you some unconventional troubleshooting techniques, again, if you like electronics. I have seen him work true miracles, talking about fixing some TVs abandoned in an old mining camp, rained on for 20+ years and full of desert dust.
Most of these guys love the old Philco “Predicta” sets, with the separate tube hovering over the TV guts in a cradle and enclosure. which were truly built like crap. Remaarkably low quality builds.
He is the “discoverer”, the “quantifier” of “silver-mica disease” in the old tuned IF sections of radios and TVs. If you don’t know what that is, don’t worry about it!
I did this when I was a kid, I hauled dead TVs home from the garbage and tried to fix them. In the process, I learned a lot about electronics, especially video electronics, and later got into a pretty lucrative semi-career in broadcast electronics sales and rentals.
Now, I appreciate his videos because it means I can get my old junk yayas out without having to lift, test, clean, or get shocked by old tube TVs.
And yes, I agree with your 4:3 comment, although, until only a couple of years ago, there was a foreign language station that broadcast NTSC 4:3 in LA.
Don’t think it would quite work withy my 250lb Sony KD34xbr960 34” HD CRT tv
I had a Dumont oscilloscope, circa 1948. Beautiful workmanship on the cabinet.
Facebook (META) has a group for those. Make some cash!
“Got some old NTSC CRT tv’s in the basement. Rigged a transmitter so they can still be watched.”
Just curious, but why did you bother? What would you watch on an old 4.3 aspect ratio with poor resolution compared to today’s 16.9 with high resolution, not to mention the now 4k resolution? Maybe for old Beta or VHS tapes in a connected player?
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Because I Can.
I loved the picture on my old Sony Trinitron!
However, since I have the means to create a true theater experience in my 15'x20' bonus room, I opted for the following:
Video: New 65" LG 4k smart tv. It's like looking through a window.
Surround: Two DefTech front towers with each having 12" subwoofers with frequency and volume adjustments.
One matchingCenter Deftech speaker just under the display.
Two Mirage towers for rear channels that work with proper Surround adjustments.
The DefTech front left and right are Bi-polar as are the rear Mirage.
For those that don't get a bi-polar speaker, it simply means that each tower has the same speakers in the rear as in the front. The trick is placement against a wall or in a corner to get best results for the "depth of sound" effect. Any decent modern receiver can help with that with its Surround check noise generator.
Other than the new display, my Surround system is truly amazing after about 8 years and the reason I never go to theaters.
Good enough.
I started out on Long Island, a lot of older electronics engineers and techs were Dumont veterans. One famous story was the vice president who reviewed every new television design by turning on a bare chassis set, and cutting out components with a wire cutter. If the TV still worked, he removed the "unnecessary" component from the design. If not, he soldered it back in, and moved on.
Very interesting!
And garage!
Hey - I’m Back.
Rad through your home description a couple times, decided “This guy don’t watch tv - He watches movies and he’s Serious About It”.
Have a 70” in the living room, a pair of Klipcsh R6000 speakers, and a Sony STR-DH190 receiver. Prefer keeping things simple and the sound is excellent. Wife watches tv, I listen to music. The tv can be patched through the stereo when we decide to watch a movie together. There’s more but this covers the audio/visual.
I’d be willing to bet 3 or 4 years down the road you’ll have an organic LED tv set in place. Those displays are incredible but still kinda pricey.
You take care and “Crank It Up”.
How’s that any different than the delivery guys trucking a gun safe in the front door after unboxing it on the front lawn?
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