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Originally Posted by uxwbill
There's a TV from my youth that I'm halfheartedly looking for, and it just occurred to me that someone here may know what model number to look for or a picture of the set in question.
So...back when I was a youngster, my mother had this red plastic cased Sylvania black and white TV set. It had a black plastic front bezel which included the tuning and volume knobs. These were located on the right side of the set, like most TVs with knob-style tuners. The speaker was below, with a black bar grille. She bought the TV new in the 1970s.
As I remember, the volume knob was silver with an inset red sticker. It had 300 ohm twinlead connections on the rear cabinet, near the tuner. There were also built in collapsible and swiveling "rabbit ear" antennas. It was a solid state set with a 19" picture tube.
My mother ended up donating the TV to charity, and I've never seen another one like it.
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I could never understand why anyone except vintage TV collectors would want TVs that don't work on today's DTV standards. Your mother's TV may be at whatever charity she donated it to for years, with no takers, because of that. What use to most folks is an old TV that gets nothing but snow?
Most people outside of our hobby don't realize that vintage/antique televisions do not work with today's digital standards and do not know enough about old sets to realize that one should never simply plug in and turn on an antique/vintage TV without replacing at least the power supply filter capacitors. I sometimes wonder how many people have done just that and wound up destroying or severely damaging what might have been an excellent TV, just because they did not know that replacing capacitors, again especially PS filters (which in 50+-year-old televisions are almost always defective or close to it), is a must when restoring old sets.