My son the mathematician cum photographer (you can peruse his work at http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com or http://icouldbeahero.deviantart.com ) sent me this link... the photos are cool, the text on the page is pretentious, and now I am really, really wanting a restored CTC-16! :-P

(these photos aren't necessarily of vintage CRT TVs as the sweep circuits fail - but they're still pretty cool as art and nostalgia)

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/30/photographs-of-old-televisions-the-moment-theyre-turned-off/

Let's see if the site'll let me hot-link an image...

http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2011/03/crt4.jpg
http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2011/03/crt4.jpg

Very cool! :smoke:

zenith makes some way cool images when they are turned off.

I remember the "Little Dot" that stayed on for quite awhile after the set was turned off...I'd always run up & plaster my eye against the screen in hopes of seeing what was goin' on after we'd turned the set off...

I remember the "Little Dot" that stayed on for quite awhile after the set was turned off...I'd always run up & plaster my eye against the screen in hopes of seeing what was goin' on after we'd turned the set off...


Very nostaglic. The singing of the national anthem, jet fly over, the flag flying and fade to black with the fading bright dot.

zenith makes some way cool images when they are turned off.

Agreed, the best I've seen were some late 60s Zenith color consoles.

Great concept here; would like to see more.

I remember the "Little Dot" that stayed on for quite awhile after the set was turned off...I'd always run up & plaster my eye against the screen in hopes of seeing what was goin' on after we'd turned the set off...
That was "the man with the flashlight in the TV" when I was a kid.

I remember as a kid thinking that the spring sound of the volume control power switch was what caused the bouncing collapse of the raster on our Admiral bakelite console TV set. THe horiz would shrink some while the vertical held steady, then the vertical would decrease while the horiz was steady, and so on, Then one time the power failed while we were watching TV on it, the raster collapsed as usual, but without the switch spring sound... :scratch2:
http://www.wa2ise.com/radios/admiraltv.jpg

Agreed, the best I've seen were some late 60s Zenith color consoles.

Great concept here; would like to see more.


Oddly, they looked like a 4" diameter chromacolor symbol, with all the colors!

Agreed, the best I've seen were some late 60s Zenith color consoles.

Great concept here; would like to see more.

Yes... Those Zeniths would have 3 color spots dance around for a second. How about the Sony projection sets when the spot killer failed, and about a microsecond of having that spot would make a black hole in the picture! I replaced many a projection tube for that.

Charles

Warms my heart to hear of Sonys failing...

BTW - this whole excercise reminds me of a stoner fresh out of Oreos having discovered his TV is really cool to watch power down - over, and over, and over...

and over and over until...wait why won't it turn on!? Stoners and 4 year olds alike do it, don't ask me how I know about the latter.

and over and over until...wait why won't it turn on!? Stoners and 4 year olds alike do it, don't ask me how I know about the latter.

Hehehehehehehehe...

Got Oreo?

A good thread!