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Well, sometimes there's a positive side of these things... Think about how common roundies would be today, if they hadn't lined the alleys on trash day all through the 80s. So as the 70s & 80s color TVs go to the recycler, they will become more rare, more interesting, and more young people will spot them and be interested to save them. The Chromacolor II of today will be the CTC-5 of 2020. Somewhere I have a picture of a backyard behind an old TV repair shop in West Los Angeles that I took in about 1978. The entire yard was set up like a Pick-A-Part junkyard for roundie consoles and combos. Hundreds of them, piled up in the rain. I couldn't understand at that time why anyone would keep those. Back then, the newest "collectible" TV was a late 40s B&W, and no color set was collectible, except maybe for the CT-100. I paid $300 for my first CT-100, and that was from a well-known collector who felt it was a high price!
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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