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Found a nice wall mount today at the Thrift and now I have it set up in my room!
Not bad, less than $100 for a nice HDTV and an Oppo DVD player. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for a good Bluray player, I have an extra one but it's old and sooo slow to load I don't want to mess with it. It's mounted a little high but space is limited in my room and I didn't want to be banging my face into it when I walk in the door. |
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Not ON walls, but IN walls was what several family acquaintances and a couple of neighbors did back then, pretty popular thing to do. I can recall several who cut holes in walls and mounted the TV flush with the wall and framed it in, with the set in an adjacent closet, room or in one case I remember the TV was sticking out into the garage.
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Replacing old worn-out TV chassis in big 3-way consoles was also popular in the '70s. Two of my great-uncles, both long deceased, had large combo consoles in which the television chassis failed after 25 years or so, developing expensive repair problems, so they decided to replace the TVs with modern sets -- retaining the stereo components. Both consoles were RCAs; one set's TV was replaced by an Emerson table model, the other's television was replaced by a Zenith CCII, IIRC. I wish I had pictures of the converted sets, as the conversions were very well done; they both looked like factory jobs. Today, the only way to even come close to having a 3-way entertainment center is to buy a large armoire or EC cabinet (or a stand, like I did with my components and which I still have, now with a flat screen TV on the top shelf -- replacing the RCA CTC185 which once graced that spot) and install your TV, video and stereo components in it. We will never again, unfortunately, see the likes of the large, stately 3-way consoles popular in the '60s and '70s, the trend now being towards nondescript-looking FP sets on their jet-black stands. The only things that make today's FPs look good in modern living rooms/dens/family rooms when they are turned off, IMHO,are the entertainment-center cabinets or stands in or on which these sets are often mounted, along with a VCR, DVD player, and often a 5.1-channel AV receiver. An old friend of mine has a floor-to-ceiling entertainment center in his family room (which is huge), in which he mounted his TV (formerly a large Toshiba CRT, now a large FP), DVD and stereo system. I saw the installation some years ago when he had the CRT TV and was amazed at the size of the EC cabinet -- but I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised, since his family room has very high ceilings.
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Also, just to add to the thread. Had one of my 206BWs die. Bad caps in the P/S, so I ordered up some and did an across-the-board replacement on all three of those monitors I have. Two were made at the same time, and had bulging caps, the third was made a month later, and had a different panel, and the caps were fine. Replaced them anyway for peace of mind. |
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I replaced it with a 940MW (its 1440x900 19" widescreen cousin), which also has documented cap problems. The biggest difference is that this model has the power supply built into the monitor vs. a brick. If I ever have a problem with it, the model was popular enough to market re-capping kits which are readily available on ebay. |
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I bought a 32'' Samsung LCD TV 2 years ago and it still works great, knock on wood. I have put it on a TV stand in my bedroom.
Maybe I was lucky that my set turned out to be good. But I'd say that it has very good quality. Actually, I would say that it is overengineered. Scoring that set for $50 is a steal. It is a great deal! |
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