“constantly adjusting the vertical or horizontal :-)”
Oh yeah. I remember those days when the screen would randomly start flipping out. Used to drive me crazy.
And the old remote, I still remember the loud “clang” noise it made when you pushed a button. It only had 4 buttons, channel up-down and volume up-down. Spent many days playing sick from school and watching cartoons and game shows on it from my dads bed. :)
Still wish we had kept it. It was a cabinet-style tv in a beautiful cherry wood casing. Actually looking back at old pictures I think it was a Philco model.
I kind of like the fact that you can hide the new flat, light-weight TVs in a cabinet/armoire, so it’s only visible when you are actually using it; no interference if it seems anachronistic to your preferred decor ;-)
But a lot of the old ones were made into very nice contemporary furniture. I always wanted one that was a tv/stereo set combined.
There was even a fad for lamps that went on top of the TV; to be truly ‘with-it’, you HAD TO HAVE one, just like you needed a centerpiece for your dining room table:
http://cdiannezweig.blogspot.com/2010/11/collecting-1950s-tv-lamps.html