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Saturday I was given a 1996 Magnavox 12 in. color portable. It looks as though it was seldom used. Bright picture, high contrast and very sharp picture. I plan in using it in my "dungeon" with a Pioneer LV player.

Free and working are good things. Congrats.

When it comes to TVs that new those are the only things worthy of keeping them out of the garbage....And even that is normally not good enough. I can probably get enough working 90's BPCs locally to fill my house and yard to the rafters just by offering to pick them up for free. People here see them as worthless and dump them in quantities that ensure they are and stay worthless.

I don't even bother to test them just pull the back, take the board and yoke (leaving the cabinet and CRT), strip the caps at home to re-use and trash most of the rest. I've scrapped so many just on my block that I don't bother going after them anymore.

I haven't picked up any TV made that recently since I got into this, and have since junked or or simply threw out almost every one of my TVs made after the 70s. I probably could have even had a large, older and working LCD set for free fairly recently. I couldn't be bothered to respond to the ad even though it had been posted minutes earlier and the postal code indicated it was nearby.

I still pick up 25" and smaller sets locally even new ones.... I don't like the flat
screen crt's though.... Have not seen lcd's that are not physically broken...
If it works it still has a value, if only for me as a spare daily watcher.... I still
pretty much only use modern sets as daily drivers - still easy to come by...

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I still have my 1995 Starlite/Randix 12" color TV set that I bought at Fry's for the then-amazing low price of $99.95. I had to go through three of them to get a good one (the first had bad adjacent-channel ghosts; this was just before I gave up cable TV for good, and the second had no sound).

It is kind of amusing to hear of sets from that age mentioned on a vintage TV Web site. I am glad you will have a good use for it. Magnavox is a good brand to use with a Laser Disc player, since they were the original brand of such players.