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Old 08-24-2011, 02:05 AM
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80's dumont tv

does anyone know about this tv the model # or have one
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Old 08-24-2011, 06:11 AM
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I know DuMont was in name only by then, but I'd love to hear more about them too. I saw a brand new '80s model color console with knobs on it when I was tv shopping. BTW, I ended up with a beautiful 13" Zenith System 3 that was priced comparable to many consoles of the day. Cost too much to toss it when the picture started dying, so I bought a clone for $15 when one showed up. Color like new.
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Old 08-24-2011, 11:07 AM
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The only '80's Dumont's I've seen were 13" and 19" sets and they were built by AOC (Admiral Overseas Corp). They were not the best quality.

I don't know about this console; but, the control panel looks like some of the Sanyo built Sears consoles. It could also be a rebadged Wells-Gardner set from the early '80's.

By the '80's, Dumont was just a name that was held by a sales company and, like others, they had their TV's produced by a number of companies. Emerson, for example, was also just a name by the '80's and most of their TV's were made by either Orion or GoldStar.
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Old 08-24-2011, 07:16 PM
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I worked for a rent-to-own company. We had DuMont console color tv's that had Sylvania chassis in them. This was around 1985.

We also rented DuMont VHS vcr's too. We had a silver machine that was linear mono sound, and a black machine that was linear stereo with Dolby. Both were built by NEC, and had issues with the rew/ff clutch and belts. I know that somewhere here, I have a NOS clutch for one of these machines. At the time, I bought them by the box.
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Old 08-25-2011, 10:46 PM
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Hard to tell from that photo, but that does look something like a mid-80s NAP (Sylvania/Philco/Magnavox) set. In a thrift store in the 90s I spotted a knob tuned 25" table model DuMont which had the "look" of being from about 1980 or so.
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Old 04-15-2014, 12:45 AM
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looking at other tvs online it looks like a few curtis mathes & sylvania tv's i have seen on ebay. & i found an nec remote on ebay that looks similar to the one we had with it
i still have not been able to find this tv anywhere online. so i guess it must be pretty rare

i think it's from 84 or 85 & i know it was cable ready.

please let me know if you can find any info about this tv thanks

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Old 04-15-2014, 09:56 AM
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I believe this is the DuMont VCR remote I saw in my recent searches for additions to my remote collection:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DuMONT-Rare-...-/221408538589
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I worked on a couple. NOT high quality. Like said before--they were "AOC" type chassis. Hot, low- quality. BUT, like the AOC sets--kind of easy to repair. One I know I had and sold was a 25" console, particle board cabinet. It has been I think 25 years or so, but IIRC it only needed some caps in the vertical ckt and soldering. The set was not at all old when I "picked it". Once fixed--it did produce a pretty good picture.
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Old 04-15-2014, 11:48 PM
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thanks for the info. I remember the remote had metal buttons
do you have any pictures of the one you sold?
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my mother in law had one of those.pretty good picture and it lasted over 10 years.had a nap crt and it looked like admiral chassis.it was a good set.not high quality but this particular one was very good.did the dumont name well
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the remote i had looked something like this sylvania one http://www.replacementremotes.com/SY...e-Control.html
but mine had metal buttons
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Old 07-30-2014, 01:00 AM
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the remote for the dumont looks more like this NEC Remote does any one have pics of nec tv's maybe the control panel is the same
https://eclairefare.files.wordpress....te_control.jpg
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Old 12-15-2016, 11:01 PM
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1980's dumont tv

I found the same model i had on newspapers.com

i can't see a model number for it because i can't view the whole page because i'm not subscribed to it

TV cost $550 in 1984

i know that some of the models begin with DLC or DL

and it seems like they had a few different models in the 80's but none can be found now
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