I dont understand your fascination with this old crap. Why dont you step into the real world and go get a 40 inch lcd? Wal-mart has a relly nice Sanyo for 1500.00 that will last a good 5 to 7 years. Who wants to watch that old junk you guys look at?? Sure , I like the old sturdy Trinitons of the 80's(not those ugly 70's), but to say they can compare to a nice Sanyo 600.00 30 inch widescreen HDTV is ludicrous. I think you guys priorities are askew and need their alignment adjusted. To worship teleevision gear simply because of build quality and ignore the innovation of new high resolution large screen tv's is archaic.Most of the old TV's you guys collect are worthless. Theres a few cool ones, for sure though. TV's do not age well like other audio collectibles. Some audio gear is agelessss and timeless, but those old console tv's aside from a few weird astronaut space command type sets are uninspiring to say the least, and even junk.I asy- junk 70's% of of those old tv's- worthless outmoded obsolete trash! The fact that a collectors market exixits for this junk is unbelivable!LIke I say, audio gear is a different beast! That stuff is always good.

These comments are far out of line. Everyone has different things that they enjoy collecting so please keep your put downs to yourself.

Many old TV's may not have a lot of monetary value but that is fine with me as I just enjoy working on them and am not into trying to sell them.

Different strokes for different folks as the saying goes. At least the collectors of these TV's are preserving a bit of history.

Well I would think it's the collector that decides what it desirable to collect or not. Rather then putting down another collector's bag, why don't you just stick to your Barbie Doll collection. :yes:

Lefty

Jerry,,,did someone give you a wedgy at work today?

:dunno:

Aren't you going to pass it around? :beatnik:


Carl

This is a joke, right? If not F__k off!

Actually a lot of the audio gear of the 50's and 60's is built with similar build quality and parts as TV's of the period. Like audio, TV cant really be any better than the source, and NTSC is quite low resolution. Like it or not, most of us still rely on NTSC for most channels. You can blow it up to 40" if you want, but it looks terrible because of the lines. You have to add a line doubler (or represent the pixels digitally) to get a watchable picture at that size, and it still doesn't have any detail.

Worse, most NTSC sources are in some way flawed, they arent even as good as they can be. My 21" roundie is plenty good enough to show all the flaws in the local broadcasting here. Have you tried it? Tubes are tubes, and they are probably as well suited to other jobs as they are to audio, recognizing that they use more space, power, etc. There have been some real technological improvements made in TV in the last 40 years, but it is a surprisingly short list. When we all make the jump to HD that will change, but it's not even available where I live, let alone common.

One other thing you mentioned, build quality. I do like to have stuff that is built with at least above average, if not excellent build quality. Also, a lot of us work on this stuff ourselves. Most parts for a 60's TV set are still available. A modern set has IC's, and they don't make the same ones for very long. If a modern set fails at about two years, you will probably need a manual. If you buy it, and I should mention that it often costs more that the TV set did in the first place, you will probably find that you need an IC. That IC will no longer be available because it is 2 years old.

Hope this explains it :)

John

The All-Time Most Striking Design Award has to go to this TV.

If you don't agree, post your choice!

(and if you think I'm hi-jacking the thread, you're right)

jerryjg, allow me to quote from AK's rules:

Everyone on AK is entitled to their opinions. Even if you do not agree, be respectful of others opinions.

You don't have to approve, or even pretend to understand why others collect what they do. They like old TVs; you don't. What won't be tolerated is for you to come into their forum, and trash their preferences in collectables.

This thread is archetypical 'trolling'. Consider this a warning to refrain from this kind of behaviour. If you persist, your stay at AK will be a short one.