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08-06-2007, 09:50 PM
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One from Canada
This just arrived in the mail!
I thought it was red but it's more of a mauve with blue and yellow knobs! It's really tiny, the CRT is 4.5 inches compared to 5.5 for the others, also there is no place for batteries in this one, it has to have an external power supply, kind of weird for a portable set. This is a Genexxa brand and it came from Canada. Beauty eh? P.s. It works great but that is a Photoshop job on that second pic. 
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08-06-2007, 09:56 PM
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08-06-2007, 10:04 PM
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That little red one really looks like a toy TV...a small kid could like that. A very small kid, I think, around 2-4 year old...the older ones, around 7, would think a B/W TV is "silly".
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09-02-2007, 06:04 PM
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Got one in red!
I dropped off a big TV combo in Oceanside Friday and while I was there I took some time to check out a few of the Thrifts.
The first one I went to was a place called "Potpourri" on PCH 1, a bit of a "frilly" type store with lots of nice things. Tucked away in an obscure corner of the shop, almost like they were ashamed of it, I found this little Fire Engine Red set!
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09-02-2007, 06:15 PM
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"Rhapsody"
I also picked up this Rhapsody brand off eBay.
This set is 20 years old! It was manufactured in Jan 87. It has the original box with the owners manual and accessories and would be nearly mint except it's supposed to be Pink, almost as Pink as the Pink on the tuning scale but exposure to UV has caused it to turn a sort of pale Orange color.  No way to buff it out either without losing the markings so I'll just have to live with it. It works perfect.
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09-06-2007, 12:29 PM
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I bought a sony watchman Mini TV yesterday at a thrift shop it works like a charm it was only $1.00 They had several other Plastic Mini TV's as well and a few speakers... They had a single realistic minimus 2 bookshelf speaker the foam had rotten from the woofer there was another one there before but someone snatched it.
I wonder why anyone woul;d buy just one speaker and not get the other? 
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09-07-2007, 03:27 PM
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There was a pink "Barbie" brand set at last nights junk auction. The usual 5" B&W set with the same chassis I see in the vast majority of these things, but the case was larger and rounder than usual. Almost like a inbred mutant JVC videosphere. It was so weird looking I almost bid on it, but $8 is more than I'll pay for this type of set. It actually made more than some of the color sets did.
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09-07-2007, 06:29 PM
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Speaking of Barbie and Pink, I just won this little set.
Exact same set as the Rhapsody above but with a different brand name and without the discoloration, I also picked up one in Black the other day. These are a lot easier and cheaper to collect than vintage sets. I wish I could do fine woodwork, I'd like to build a replica of a 50's B&W console using one of the 5.5" sets for the guts. The tuner is just a potentiometer so it would be possible to make one with functional knobs even.
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09-08-2007, 01:12 PM
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A regular customer dropped in one of the 5" in TV/CD boomboxes I mentioned earlier for repair today. I took some pics of it in pieces. I'll post another pic when I get it back together, but I've had enough of it tonight. It's quite cramped in side and actually quite difficult to get apart. The unit doesn't use the most common version of this chassis that I see. It's the karaoke version and they replaced the TV tuner with a camera so you can see how stupid you look when your using it. If I'd known this thing was showing up I would have bought a simliar model at last nights auction to make my life easier.
 I removed the CRT for a better look.   There is lots of hot glue and masking tape in this thing.  This chassis is different to the one I usually see in these type of things. Rather than use the 5in TV chassis as is they have designed a different chassis that also hold the power supply and stereo amplifier for the built in speakers. Other versions have the amplifier on the CD player PCB and just use the common TV chassis as is. Those versions use an external plug pack as there is no room in the case for a mains transformer. There are numerous bad electrolytic capacitors, they seem to the most common problem in cheap chinese electronics.
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09-08-2007, 04:11 PM
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I wonder if very many color Mini tv's were made?
I can understand why someone would collect these thing theyre cute! I have started collecting Mini radios! I do have a sony watchman from 1987 i got 2 days ago is a black and white set I have yet to come across the color variation.
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09-10-2007, 11:59 AM
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Eric, I have a faded pink one from the 80s, I was just looking at it but already forgot the name. Missing some front trim. Free if you want it, for shipping. PM if interested. It does work, as I recall.
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09-10-2007, 12:40 PM
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I used to have a few of these little cheap 5" sets. The chassis are not that bad and the performace is very good for a cheap portable. I even liked the relatively small size compared to '70s and '80s 5" sets. The only thing that really put me off of them was the cheap plastic cabinets. The styling is great but the fit and finish are about as low end as you can get. I know they are built to a price point but if all else were the same but a better quality plastic was used, they would be really great sets.
I toyed with the idea of getting one and putting it in a ruggedized metal cabinet for the ultimate go anywhere portable but abandoned the idea when I heard about the analog cut-off. Now I'm on the lookout for a good ATSC portable.
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09-11-2007, 07:20 AM
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