Not sure if this should go somewhere else.
 

I try to read all I can here but it's too much for my under-sized brain to read it all to know if this article is already here.
So, this article should have a big impact in south Florida. Just thought others might like to see it.

These are a little easier to read.

Yeah, I bet this will have a huge impact on mother earth. Its a shame how wasteful we've become. And I doubt most people even know how to recycle their set properly.

As for that photo, I want those sets! (Don't crush em just yet!) I see a Sony from the KV-1212 era, some nice RCAs, eh.

Fortunately, that's only a collage of old photos. But it gets me thinking....

Charles

LOL, thats true.

At least it should bring the price down on many of sets we are interested in.

I bet there are more than a few people with "HD ready" plasmas that will be surprised when their sets stop working.

If nothing else, in the short term, I suspect we'll see a surge in interesting curbside trash finds for the next couple of years.

I was thinking that too, I'm already on the lookout whenever I get time!

It's already started in Los Angeles... I've seen a whole bunch of nice sets at the curb. Today a Sony 36" WEGA, yesterday a Mitsubishi 35" console in an oak cabinet. Fortunately nothing collectible. There's a pile of 90s vintage TVs that showed up suddenly along the railroad tracks on Canoga Ave. in Chatsworth, and TVs lying face down just about everywhere else. But again; nothing older than the 90s. But I DO notice that they're all staying there. Most have the back smashed off and yoke gone within a day or 2, however.

Charles

Is there some black market for used color TV yokes that we're unaware of?

-Ian

It's the copper

I've been seeing a lot of t.v.s on the curb here as well, but nothing interesting yet, just BPC and mid-80s consoles.


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Yes...In fact, it's now common to see whole blocks of street lights dead because the underground wiring has been stolen. The Los Angeles DWP said that they had to pay $10,000,000 last year to replace stolen wire. And also copper plumbing. A lot of people have gotten up in the morning to find their water shut off, and outdoor pipes cut and gone. I went to the junk yard on Wednesday, and saw that a lot of cars were missing the whole wiring loom :thumbsdn:

Charles

Maybe not collectable but a 36" WEGA is welcome in my living room anytime! Mitsu too! I'll hook up a converter and be happy as hell!:banana:

My WEGA was junk. Shorted guns at 3 years old. And, going into IK shutdown at age 2.