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I've owned (in order of when I owned it):
1980's 19" Sears TV with electronic tuning (with a knob).
13" RCA from the early 90's - XL100
19" Philips Magnavox from 1998 -- This TV's RF jack snapped off in 2001 just before 9/11.
13" Sears LXI Series TV from mid 80's with digital tuning via LED's on the bottom of the set. We had this TV in the family since I was born, but I used it to replace the above TV for a while. This was the FIRST TV I ever owned that had something other than RF. It had composite input.
20" Apex Digital from 2001 (This was the permanent replacement for the 19" Philips Magnavox) - This TV sucked. It wasn't rotated right, it's OSD menu "shook" after it warmed up, it's AGC was just terrible. But, it was the first TV I had that had S-Video, and for DVD's I LOVED it.
All the above TV's were given to me or bought by my parents. I never bought those.
Then, I bought my own TV with high school graduation money -- AGAINST my fathers wishes. I don't think he still ever forgave me for doing this.
27" Prima from 2006. It was a 4:3 CRT, but was HD, and supported native scan rates of 540p and 1080i. It did the following scaling mapping:
480i to 540p
480p to 540p
540p to 540p (Scaler shuts down. Though the OSD says 1080i which is strange.)
720p to 540p (Yes, a DOWN grade)
1080i to 1080i (Scaler shuts down)
1080p to 540p (Gah! Another DOWN grade.)
That was an odd TV, and I gave it to my mom. She complained it kept loosing vertical deflection down to a line. Turns out it was a cold soldering joint, of which I fixed, but the damage was done-burned phosphors. TV still works though, but I won't use it though, why use a TV with damaged phosphors? It's a Samsung CRT.
Then, my first LCD.
40" LCD, Samsung, full 1080p in 2008. This TV had capacitor problems. After a while though, I got "home sick". I missed CRT's, and oddly, I missed old CRT's with woodgrain..........just like my FIRST TV from when I was a child.
That's when I went literally, from a 40" LCD, directly to:
13" Hitachi from 1980 that I had when I joined this forum, and swapped it with an earlier Hitachi chassis that was a hybrid. I just loved the tube/SS combo chassis better, far different color demodulation.
And then now, the 19" that I have in my sig, that to this day still don't know it's DOB because the TV never had the DOB stamped on it, internally or externally.
It's funny, because I literally went from 40" LCD with 3 HDMI ports, etc, and went right back to the woodgrain RF TV's that are severely old.
No one understands this. Now I never owned a black and white TV, and while I personally have no problem with it, the phosphors they use, appear too blue to my eyes and give me headaches. If they were more "warm" I'd have no issue with it.
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