To: badfreeper
In about 15 years or so I'll be able to pick one up for a pittance! I just replaced my 1985ish 20" TV (with dials on the front and a separate cable converter) with a new 27" thanks to a great Boxing Day sale! It's nothing fancy, analog, not a true flat screen, but for the amount of TV I watch it might even have bordered on a splurge. The old TV was starting to have some problems though. I have to admit, DVDs through an s-video connection look pretty great! 27 inches, for me, is a pretty big screen.
Myself, I still watch the same TV that we had when I was in high school. We have a 1982 Zenith 25" that is still going strong. It is an old "System 3" chassis that came out in the late 1970's. I remember watching everything from Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire and SDI speech to 9-11 and beyond on it. CRT is showing its age al ittle but the picutre is still as magnificent as when we first got it. I also still have our first color TV, a 1970/71 23" Zenith that I'd like to fix someday. One interesting thing on that TV, you have vacuum tubes, transistors, and early computer chips existing all at once. B-)
I remember vaguely when for color TV's, 23" screens were the biggest until the 25" screens came out. My aunt still used her old 1962? RCA color TV until a couple of years ago, it was one of the old round 21" RCA tube models that came out in the mid 1950's and lasted until the mid 1960's.
To: Nowhere Man
"I remember vaguely when for color TV's, 23" screens were the biggest until the 25" screens came out." Yeah, when I told my mother about my new TV her response was, "Why do you need a big screen?" The old TV probably would have lasted longer, but it spent much of the '90s on almost continuously becuase I had a cat that would get really lonely when left by herself. She was much calmer after I started leaving the TV on while I wasn't home.
To: Nowhere Man
wow...cool story... did you keep those old CRTs?
It would be fun to see them in the same room with a projector screen unit.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson