Funai Emerson find (lol)

[radiotvnut]

I will say that given the throwaway society we live in plus the fact that these are not housed in pretty cabinets, these types of TV's will be the hardest to find in 50 years. I don't ever expect to collect these; but, there may be others who do and they are going to have a harder time finding these types of TV's than we are having now finding old stuff.

[tvcollector]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I will say that given the throwaway society we live in plus the fact that these are not housed in pretty cabinets, these types of TV's will be the hardest to find in 50 years. I don't ever expect to collect these; but, there may be others who do and they are going to have a harder time finding these types of TV's than we are having now finding old stuff.

I don't see why anyone would collect such plastic garbage.. There really isn't any characteristics to these picture tube with black framed sets with small push buttons.. 50 years from now I don't think much any of these will even be around... I even think the old 70s and 80s sets will be around then, even though they are imported sets, they still have neat characteristics to them..

[zenith2134]

Yes, the chances of an integrated circuit being unobtainable in a set like this are quite good when it fails. And then it's a dead paperweight. I am not trying to collect these tv's but this one was a castaway and it works for free so i picked it up.
I of course tried the channel down and up to find the video inputs...I will use a universal remote I have somewhere to try the SVideo input.

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[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by tvcollector

I don't see why anyone would collect such plastic garbage.. ..

It's roughly the same as radio collectors actively seeking out those cheap Japanese AA5 radios. Built before the Japanese learned how to do quality.

[zenith2134]

I never thought I'd see people collecting XL-100s, Chromacolor IIs, and low end 80's Korean sets

When I was growing up, my parents were the "V-chip"

My favorite era was right before OSD became common

Turns out that my Funai emerson find needs to have the original remote, jumpered for service duty, in order to adjust grayscale.
Luckily it isn't far off but.. what a shame no one is going to bother to fix one already.