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Originally Posted by compucat
In those days when you paid $450 and up for a color tv you naturally expected to get it fixed. When I was a kid in the Seventies, people would generally not replace a tv until it started costing money through frequent repairs and by then the set was usually several years old. Most color sets seemed to last about five years before they started needing frequent servicing. It was not unusual to see people's tvs with reduced vertical or pulling in from one side, in those days we just lived with the little things.
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I more or less pointed this out before, and I noticed, with a mixture of annoyance and amusement, that it was promptly ignored.
I've since mentally labled this as an inconvenient truth.
It's always amused me when people whine today about modern sets having problems after a couple years, when at one time, extremly expensive sets doing this sort of thing was considered acceptable. That's not to say that arguments like declining build quality aren't valid, but the fact that older TVs, particularly tube chassis sets, needing frequent service, is something to think about.