View Full Version : Did Sharp make a red color TV (13 inch or above)...


waltchan
06-16-2009, 02:20 PM
Because I found this extremely rare full red color Sharp vintage VCR at a local garage sale, and it's in like new condition. It would be really cool if there was a matching red Sharp TV to begin with. Did Sharp make a red color TV (13 inch or above)? Not interested in a portable TV. Thanks for your help.

zenithfan1
06-16-2009, 03:45 PM
I don't know about the TV but that is a cool VCR. The biggest red set I've seen was a 13".

waltchan
06-16-2009, 10:50 PM
The biggest red set I've seen was a 13".
What's the year it was built that you last saw. 13" is perfect. This looks cool as a retro 80s flashback design.

dr.ido
06-17-2009, 12:25 AM
I've seen red Sharp sets in both 13" and 20", but I don't remember the model numbers. There was also a red Sharp set with a built in Famicon (Japanese NES), but that one was Japan only. There was a US version with a built in NES, but it was black.

zenithfan1
06-17-2009, 06:26 AM
What's the year it was built that you last saw. 13" is perfect. This looks cool as a retro 80s flashback design.

I think it was made around 1982, but it was a while ago.

kx250rider
06-17-2009, 08:29 AM
I've seen a 19 (0R 20) " Sharp in hot pink, so I bet they had that brick-red also. I bought a new 13" one in about '86 in red, to match the ugly formica kitchen counter we had at the time. Not a bad set, and it was cheap, and had a remote. I watched the Challenger tragedy on it live :(

Charles

RobtWB
06-18-2009, 09:23 AM
Don't know about a red television, but , were there not a line of audio components from the mid 80's. IIRC Sharp was the manufacturer. I'll bet the folks on the audio side of the forum would know.

dr.ido
06-18-2009, 09:30 AM
The model number escapes me at the moment, but I've had 1 model of low end Sharp receiver is red, black and silver.

waltchan
06-18-2009, 11:05 PM
Besides the TV, I learned from research that this is identical to Sharp VC-381 in silver color, and it's made in 1983. Ever serviced one and was it reliable?

kx250rider
06-19-2009, 09:23 AM
Ever serviced one and was it reliable?


As cheap as those are, they were reliable! All I remember being wrong with those, was a dirty mode switch and hardened belts & idlers.

Charles

jedo1507r
06-19-2009, 10:06 PM
Besides the TV, I learned from research that this is identical to Sharp VC-381 in silver color, and it's made in 1983. Ever serviced one and was it reliable?

Even Sharp's portables are pretty reliable and servicable. :thmbsp:


Sharp may have a red set to go with your machine, as many other Japanese electronics mfrs. in the '80s sold red-cased sets. I guess it was the cool thing to do, heh.
Ad. example from Sanyo. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJt6vjRChUs)