"antique" console TV - Yeah, right

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by ctc17

Should be registered as a historic vehicle not antique. I believe anything over 30 years old qualifies.
Let the kids call anything with a crt as antique and we can call sets with signal tubes historic.

After all you can still find new crt sets at walmart/.

Unfortunately anything 25 years+ is "antique", and anything 5 years to 24 years is "special interest/collector car", if low production or other criteria. It's better for insurance costs, at least. (I have State Farm on some, and JC Taylor on others). The CA DMV does have HV plates, but those are very restrictive.

Charles

[50scraze]

It is very annoying. I browse through the ads on CL and many people are listing newer crap as "antique" or "vintage". Makes it hard to actually find the real vintage sets.

[radiotvnut]

What's really funny are those folks who try to sell "reproduction" radios as antique. Oh, I didn't know that radios had built in cassette players in 1932.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I have an "antique" HDTV tuner, an RCA DTC-100. It is from the twentieth century!

[mwplefty]

The perception of what is "vintage" and "antique" is often misconstrued by our current throw-away, materialistic society that tells us that "new is good" and "old is bad." Free cell phone upgrades every two years doesn't help the situation either.

I once saw a set on Craigslist that said "Really Old TV for sale." I thought okay, it must be a late-1960's/early-1970's console. NO! It was some unattractive 1990's set. It's times like these that help me realize why so many TV and electronics repair shops go out of business.

[bgadow]

I've all but given up on CL or Freecycle for finding old TV sets. Typical: woman in her late 50s says she has 3 sets to get rid of, newest one is a Zenith from the 70s, so I drive over 30 minutes one day after work. Turns out the "new" set is a monster 32" console, lotsa fun loading it up myself. (they were free, I didn't have the heart to tell her no) The second set was just a 19" BPC. The third set, a heavy, all-metal cabinet model that was pretty old, well, it is out in the garage...we'll get it last...oops. After loading up the junk she remembered that the third set was put out on the curb last year...

I know some folks who have that same basic Sylvania, except theirs is a Philco. Something about seeing that brandname on a TV...even though I know it is the same as any other NAP set, I just kinda like it more.

Every once in awhile, though, you find something good while looking. Just enough to keep me checking.

I do think the day will come when we wished we had saved a few of these sets. Last winter I gave away an early 80s RCA that my uncle bought new. Lots of memories with that set. I thought of the shows I had watched on it (in particular a certain New Years Eve that was memorable) and how this was a genuine RCA product, before it all came apart. But I just can't save them all. 20 years from now I know I'll wish I had it back.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by AndyMack

Pretty advanced for 1960 I'd say! lol Actually, I like the looks of this set.... wonder if it's American made. I'd grab it if it were closer.

Yes stuff was VERY PRETTY back in the day (Not like this newer garbage now)

I understand you not wanting to pick it up.. Its a shame they arent closer! (I doubt its american made by the looks of it (Although i could be wrong))

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Yes stuff was VERY PRETTY back in the day (Not like this newer garbage now)

I understand you not wanting to pick it up.. Its a shame they arent closer! (I doubt its american made by the looks of it (Although i could be wrong))

I think the CRT and cabinet are American made. The chassis was likely made in Japan, shipped to the USA, and the whole thing was probably put together at the old Warwick plant.