Now collecting small solid state sets. Have I lost my mind!!?

[Electronic M]

The first I've had for a long time, and I think it is old enough to merrit my keeping it.



The next two recient acquisitions bug me.

The second I bought because I wanted an example of paddle CRT set, and I feel that even with a missing knob, and with a ruined antenna it is worth the 2$ I paid.
BTW how is that single RCA jack A/V input suposed to work?





And lastly this cute widdle 1985 monochrome Zenith(were it not a zenith I would not have given it a second look) that I rescued from the curb. It is clean, and works great(unlike the set it was sitting on when it was found, which I left(you'll see why)).



In the past I would scrap this, but I left it, and snaped a couple of pictures to visualy warn about the danger of leaving the brightness turned up when the vertical fails(somehow I think the owner must have been asleap or elsewhere at the time it failed).



Tom C.

[David Roper]

The 60s Sony is definitely a keeper. I can also see holding onto the Watchman as kind of a grandchild to the other Sony. The rest...ehh. I would keep space open for nicer things.

[Sandy G]

Yeah, the little "Teeny, Tiny, TeeVees" DO have a charm all their own...

[Ed in Tx]

I love my little S0NY KV9PT60 AC-DC 9" TV. I have two of these, first one I bought new cost was nearly $300, and it now has a bad CRT. This one I picked up used and has an excellent tube.

[Ed in Tx]

Just noticed in my last post there's a hot link for the word "S0NY" (I'll spell it with a zero from now on!)



Any way to turn off this annoyance?

For safety reasons, I would NEVER click on a link like that, don't know what might happen..

[radiotvnut]

I have a few 5" B&W TV/radio portables, including two older Sony's (one from the mid '60's and the other from the early '80's). I also have a mid '80's Emerson TV/radio/cassette portable. And, I have a few 9"/12" B&W portables. After the DTV switch, these sets started coming out of the woodwork.

[Jeffhs]

I had a Zenith J121Y 12" solid-state b&w portable I bought new in 1978. Kept it the next 22 years. The set worked perfectly all that time (only thing wrong with it was a broken detent mechanism on the UHF tuner). I would still have it today if not for a lack of space in my small apartment; I have two color sets here and several vintage radios as it is, with little room left for even a small portable TV. Oh well. That Zenith wouldn't have been worth much to me anyway after June 12, 2009, and it wasn't doing me a whole lot of good before the DTV transition either. I live in a semi-fringe area for Cleveland TV, and this set would only get channels 5 and 8 on its built-in monopole VHF antenna. Channel 3 doesn't reach here at all (at least it didn't in the pre-DTV days) on any of my sets. Somehow I just couldn't see using my Zenith 12-inch SS portable with a converter box, though I could have connected the cable directly to the VHF antenna input through a matching transformer, using the VHF channel selector for tuning. The set would have received most of the broadcast channels, except a couple of out-of-town ones I don't watch anyway.

[ctc17]

I have the top 3, love the small 60s crt Sornys.
The sanyo would get parted and trashed.

I believe the hotlinks are a little extra income for the site operator.

[zenith2134]

I sadly tossed a 60s Sony monochrome set years ago...was a long lost relative's set that my parents had in storage since 1989. It worked but had one problem---ants. And lots (lots) of them. I regret that I couldn't be bothered to kill them all.

70s & 80s solid state tv's are my forte; for a number of reasons. Needless to say, the tube stuff is also great. When it comes to audio I'm all tubes.

[Sandy G]

Wait'll you get one of the Panasonic 1.5" sets-They're just sooo...ADORABLE...And so often have been treated w/lots of disrespect-Antennas broken, batt covers missing, etc. Why people PURPOSELY trash otherwise good stuff is beyond me.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Just noticed in my last post there's a hot link for the word "S0NY" (I'll spell it with a zero from now on!)

Any way to turn off this annoyance?

For safety reasons, I would NEVER click on a link like that, don't know what might happen..

Originally Posted by ctc17

I believe the hotlinks are a little extra income for the site operator.

I hope a VK moderator reads this and can tell us if it is a revenue-generating add-on for Videokarma itself. If it is, I would have no problem with it. More likely, though, it is some type of add-on, probably part of a "toolbar"-type program, that specific members here have on their own computers. Ed, a good way to test for this is to open this site using the Firefox browser, if you are normally using Internet Explorer instead. (Firefox is a free download.) Let us know if you still see those links in Firefox.

[zenith2134]

I see this happening to certain words on this site on both my Macbook pro (Firefox) and on Windows 7 (Internet Explorer)

[ctc17]

I only use the sony edition firefox they sell at walmart because Wallmart sells the best Sony flat screen televisions made in my favorite country that makes the best Walmart products from Sony.

Testing....
Hmm looks like it has been removed. Looking through old threads sony and walmart were the hot ones.

[Hemingray]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

I love my little S0NY KV9PT60 AC-DC 9" TV. I have two of these, first one I bought new cost was nearly $300, and it now has a bad CRT. This one I picked up used and has an excellent tube.

Wow, I have the white version of that one on the shelf next to me! (KV-9PT50)


As for the weird link in your post, check for weird addons on Firefox (toolbars, etc).

[Eric H]

The Hotlink is OK, it's a moneymaker for AK/VK, at leaset if you click on it it is, not sure if you actually have to buy anything for AK/VK to benefit or if just the number of clickthroughs is what matters, Admins?