Picked up a Magnavox Console Today

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Originally Posted by zenith2134

Very interesting set there. It's amazing that its got complex features like PIP and stereo, and the chassis is a miniaturized mainboard like modern ones.

I noticed that tiny main board too (relative to the size of the cabinet), and did a double take when I saw the board; good grief, I said to myself, is that the entire television (less the CRT, tuner[s], yoke and speaker, of course) on just that one panel? Seems to me to be an awful waste of space; they could have put a stereo AM/FM tuner/amplifier and phono in the space left in there. I've seen this (the use of a very small main chassis in a huge console cabinet) in other makes of TVs from the '80s (and even some older console radios) as well, so that set's design wasn't necessarily an oddball.

That Maggie will be a very good set once the issues with the cold solder joints are resolved and the defective resistors are replaced. Stereo sound, PIP, Total Remote Control...it has the works. This set also may have been one of the last Maggies actually manufactured in the US, judging from the stamp on the back cover. (Is Magnavox's Greeneville, Tennessee plant still there?) However, I don't think even this set was built as solidly as earlier Maggies from when the company was based in Indiana.