[Larry Lucido]

Maybe it’s time to put the old Dumont out to pasture.

[Vendome]

Wow

reaching back to nearly the beginning of the last century for that one..

LOL

[Gay State Conservative]

In the early days of HDTV I bought a 34" Sony.I paid about $1,000 for it and it was said to be about the best that was available. The thing weighed a ton and the screen was small and the picture was certainly better than a regular TV but it certainly wasn't great.

A year ago I bought a 55" LG. Paid just over $1,000 for it (it was an open box at Best Buy) and its said to be close to the best you can find.

It's light enough for me to lift and move myself,the screen is more than big enough for my not that large condo and watching a BBC nature disc in 4K the giraffes look like they're in the living room with us.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I had a Dumont oscilloscope, circa 1948. Beautiful workmanship on the cabinet.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

BTW, the Honeymooners was brought to you on the Dumont Television Network. Dumont was bought out by Metromedia, which was bought out by News Corp., which owns the Fox network. The Fox television network is the descendant of Dumont.

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.