The OFFICIAL Curbside TV Find Thread After Analog Completely Ceased...
 

Well, I started a thread as we will be prepared to see mountains of vintage analog TVs piling near trash. Post what you found...

I was at my local Best Buy today, and my jaws dropped after finding more than 120 customers crowding in at the HDTV section. The customer service desk had more than 50 unwanted analog TVs ready for recycling.

I am attending a ham radio/electronics flea market tomorrow morning (Saturday, June 13). I will see what goes on there with old TV sets.

Did those people seriously wait this long to get a DTV tuner? What morons. And then to throw out perfectly good TVs when any person with even a little bit of intelligence knows they'll still work, with cable, or a DTV tuner.

I can't wait to see what happens here in 2011. I'll go to future shop to look at all the morons lol

In fact, there's people who think Canada has switched to digital as well. Idiots.

I don't claim to be the smartest guy in the world but I can pay attention to the damn constant adverts. Compared to them, I'm a fuckin genious.

No, no, no...Let the Great Unwashed keep thinkin' their tellies are ALL kaput...Then WE can cabbage on some great deals...I might even be able to score an Indextron, or maybe another CT-101 or something equally as good...ALWAYS take full & unfair advantage at the expense of others...Especially when they're IDIOTS & basically deserve to be skinned in the 1st place...Mbwahahahahahaha...

They reported on the 6 PM news that within an hour of the analog shutdown, people were flooding Best Buy to purchase new DTV's and DTV converters. So, I'm sure there will be plenty of good analog TV's kicked to the curb because people don't want to mess with a box.

That is the way I look at it. :D I have a CRT TV. Works great with a converter box and rabbit ears. If that set goes, I will get another CRT used for cheap.

I had to rush down to the San Fernando Valley (north Los Angeles at 7:00 this morning, and I saw two big projection TVs lying along the road... They weren't there yesterday. I'm going to be out again later today, so I'll keep my eyes open. What astounded me, is that I went to Walmart last night to buy some rabbit ears, and the clerk (a guy about 18) asked ME when the TV was going to change!!!!! I politely answered "tonight", and I sure hope he was kidding. If an 18-year-old Los Angeles resident didn't truly know as of last night, Heaven help the over-80 crowd in Montana!

Charles

I rarely actually see things sitting on curbs in this area. At the flea market this morning, I only saw a couple of TVs at all, and one tuner in its box. At Fry's on the way home, there were pallets of Channel Master tuners (one of the good ones) for sale, and surprisingly not a crowd of people buying them.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/z...min&maxAsk=max
Still some listed, there sure was a lot last listed month. Probably in the next month too



Carl

Every yard sale I went to today had at least one BPC TV set sitting on a table for about $10 or so...

Passed on a Zenith b&w 19" early sixties tube over speaker upright this morning. Feeling a little guilty as it just poured like a mofo here. Anybody wants it let me know and I'll go rescue it.

Did pick a Zenith (prol. LG :( ) PTV a few hours ago. Free. Maybe 52". One of the newer thinner ones. This might be a renaissance of the trash to heating oil market I had going a few years ago on the tail end of the CRT days.

There was a nice RCA XL-100 console at a yard sale for 5 bucks. Early varactor tuner with the selector knob.

Elsewhere on the web:

http://www.wtfda.org/images/stories/garagesale.jpg

Here's my curbside find...
 

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Hey! not bad!

All I found in the thrift stores of the northern Atlanta suburbs were a slew of (mostly) Chinese BPC sets, all working and all generally under $15.

There was one 1981 Sears set with the mechanical pushbutton tuning that had a strong CRT at least (no way to see a picture on it anymore.)