Old photos of TV's

[TVTim]

Originally Posted by KV-1926R

I'm kind of curious about what kind of set is in this picture of my mom from May 1961. The other pic is of me, probably in 1985, in front of what I believe was a 1981 Sony Trinitron console. This set was passed on to my grandmother and used until the CRT went weak and was junked in 1999 by yours truly to make it easier to get to the dumpster.

That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by TVTim

That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.

Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.

Solid wood cabinet maybe? My 1989 Panasonic console has one, and it's rather difficult to even push along laminate flooring. If I recall correctly, that Sony had glass set into the top as well.

[bigaudioal]

Found a few more old family photos with sets in them. The one picture is from a slide and backwards (RCA CTC-12 color). In my Grandfather's house (father's side of the family). My mother remembers watching the Moon Landing in '69 at my father's parent's house on this set, while my grandfather was trying to record it on his 8MM camera. He wanted to get a movie of it b/c my father was in Vietnam at the time.

Second is a DuMont RA-103 in my Grandfather's office. "Grandma!!!! get out of the way so we can see the TV!!!" Ha!

[WISCOJIM]

reversed

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.

And they had one of the SHITTIEST tubes in them n HISTORY. Maybe even a 23EGP22 was better (at lifespan, that is.) The 91-99 Zenith tubes WERE worse, though.


One would be HARD pressed to find one today---with a good tube.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by TVTim

That was one big SONY for back in the day. Way too cool.

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

Yes indeedy...and that KV2601 was a lot heavier than the RCA, GE and Mags I delivered, drooled over and set up in those days.

Originally Posted by rca2000

And they had one of the SHITTIEST tubes in them n HISTORY. Maybe even a 23EGP22 was better (at lifespan, that is.) The 91-99 Zenith tubes WERE worse, though.


One would be HARD pressed to find one today---with a good tube.

I wish I knew exactly what model it was, but it wasn't necessarily a KV-2601, the KV-2648R I just found out is identical in appearance. I wonder if the CRT in the latter is any better...

[Captain Video]

Nice picture of a porthole in this blog - this family seemed to like Zenith, look:

https://cariocadorio.wordpress.com/tag/tv/