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Originally Posted by Thyratron
it's got a "vintage" brand name, too, which doesn't hurt, although wasn't Channel Master Japanese originally?
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Channel Master was (and is, I assume) a US-based company, but they ended up serving mostly as an importer for various Japanese-made goods. Channel Master was originally best known for TV antennas-- which I think they actually made in the USA-- but then they started selling transistor radios and TVs and what-not, which were typically Japanese in origin. Channel Master also had a line of replacement CRTs, and I'm not sure who made them (or perhaps they were really rebuilts that CM rebuilt and badged with their name..?)
BTW, putting a modern DTV converter in a vintage case would be a neat project. I was actually planning to "case-mod" a DVD player into an old industrial-looking RCA intercom control box that I found at a hamfest a while back. The finished project would then be re-badged as an "RCA Video Victrola" or something. However, case-modding a DTV converter would be *really* simple (since you don't need to worry about control panel buttons or displays or DVD trays)-- just have an opening/bezel somewhere for the IR sensor. Great!