Strange Projection TV
 

Took a look at this tall white plastic projection set in Northern NJ today.

It stands about 6 feet high, with a molded white plastic swept-style base, and the weirdest screen, resembling a flattened balloon! I'd guess 70s or 80s. It has a lens assembly inside, which is made similar to an overhead projector, and there is a portable TV (I was told), in the attic which slides into the unit. The TV is mirror-image to compensate for the projection assembly.

Has anyone seen this set before, or even an ad? I've seen a skillion sets, but nothing remotely like this one. It might be a school type set, or something originally used in a lecture environment.

Had just picked up a TRK-120, so I didn't have room in the van, even if I decided to get it! Thanks -- Harry

Maybe it's just the picture but it almost appears to be widescreen?.

Perhaps a one off prototype or movie prop?

Proj set
 

Not a prop, but possibly a very limited production.

That white plastic base, and the balloon-screen (which seems like it could have been 2 feet or larger diag.) were molded--not prototyped...someone paid to have the molds made and the units produced, even if they only ordered 50 pcs.

Couldn't find a makers name or mark, and the portable TV that was modified for the set was not immediately found.

But what, Mrs. Lincoln, about that TRK-120?

It's Mr. Poster...just wait a few days and it will be on eBay for us all to see.

Maybe some kind of store display prop? No need for badges.

Trk
 

I'm hoping the TRK-120 will be sold before I have to pay ebay 10% !!

It was just sitting there, still on the bottom skid it was shipped on, unsold, in an old appliance shop...what was I to do, if not buy it?!?

Wow!!!! :jawdrop:

It just amazes me that something like this can still be found, or that it could even happen. That is 75 years of non-activity. It has to be two,three, or more generations of people, family or not, all saying "I will not do anything with that" or even "I will not look in that storage area in back/upstairs" or whatever.

I could understand it if this was 1980, like when I worked in a surplus store in downtown Chicago that had four GE 15-inch color monitors from 1954, three of them still unopened in their wooden crates. But, the world has changed a lot in 35 years. Or, I thought it did.

Congratulations for that nice find. (And, please see if they have the TV chassis from another TRK-120 sitting there, too. I need one!)