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Old 03-03-2019, 08:58 PM
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HiFi Component TV

Has anyone had or seen one of these?

https://youtu.be/KPneS9ZdUB8
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Old 03-03-2019, 10:20 PM
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Yes, a friend had one of these in his ham shack for tv dxing. It actually worked quite well, when connected to his massive log periodic array.

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Old 03-03-2019, 10:22 PM
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From a consumer perspective it seems rather novelty rather than a useful tool.
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Old 03-03-2019, 10:32 PM
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I remember seeing these brand new on the showroom floor of JCPenny's in the late 70's. It was part of a rather elaborate rack system with huge speakers. I remember the system sounding fantastic to my young ears and it being quite pricey for the day.
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Old 03-04-2019, 07:30 AM
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I have one or two left in storage. I know I've also flipped a couple of them over the years at the ETF swaps. Worked very well as a TV, good for DXing.
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Old 03-04-2019, 05:00 PM
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Its built by Panasonic so I wonder if they sold under the Technics
label also ? Cant imagine them designing & building them
for a JCP order of a few thousand.
In any case being a Panny it will be of high quality & easy to fix.

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Old 03-04-2019, 06:58 PM
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I have one or two left in storage. I know I've also flipped a couple of them over the years at the ETF swaps. Worked very well as a TV, good for DXing.
I'd like to own one.
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Old 03-04-2019, 07:01 PM
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Yeah, I've had a couple thru the years. One I sold/gave to a fellow VK member several yrs back.Or maybe I swapped it out w/him for something. Got both of the ones I have offa Der Bay, for silly cheap money. Never tried DXing w/them, as NTSC was gone by the time I got 'em. Always kinda thought they were an answer to a question nobody asked, if you know what I mean. Wished Sony had made 'em-a 5" Trinitron version woulda been a rather nifty neat-o doohickey...
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Old 03-04-2019, 08:17 PM
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Yeah, I've had a couple thru the years. One I sold/gave to a fellow VK member several yrs back.Or maybe I swapped it out w/him for something. Got both of the ones I have offa Der Bay, for silly cheap money. Never tried DXing w/them, as NTSC was gone by the time I got 'em. Always kinda thought they were an answer to a question nobody asked, if you know what I mean. Wished Sony had made 'em-a 5" Trinitron version woulda been a rather nifty neat-o doohickey...
I saw the home of someone that asked the question. A few years ago I stopped at the last day of a local estate sale. The place had apparently been full of HiFi gear and much of it had been bought, but I did find a few gems. I came back with among other things a lot of 8-tracks, and many were recorded from TV concerts and music programs (they even had a fancy digital timer for audio recording). Listening to them they clearly had some sort of TV tuner with a line level out (and whatever it was it was quite decent sounding)...I bet there are folks that would get a kick out of some of the stuff they had recorded.

I also have a 70's realistic VHF TV audio demodulator box from some antique radio swapmeet that was a less interesting answer to the same question.

Sony actually did make a similar device...So similar it was monochorme too. It is in that utube vid.
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Oh, I love watching Techmoan YouTube videos. He would make a great salesman. His puppet videos are funny too. He did one on the Sony watchman CRT sets awhile back that's also good for us tv nuts to watch as well.
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