The OFFICIAL Curbside TV Find Thread After Analog Completely Ceased... - Page 4 - Videokarma.org TV - Video

truetone36 · #46 06-20-2009, 03:27 PM

I picked up a '83 G.E. 19" table set and a '90 Zenith System 3 25" console w/stereo sound and the original remote last night. Both sets work perfectly. My wife said she'd like me to put the Zenith in the living room.

Trance88 · #47 06-22-2009, 03:25 PM

Not exactly on the curb but damn, here's a really nice looking old console near where I live. Anyone know what it is? Too bad I'm up north for 2 months!!

http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/ele/1234215716.html

radiotvnut · #48 06-22-2009, 03:49 PM

I'll bet it's either a mid '70's Admiral or Quasar.

peverett · #49 06-22-2009, 05:00 PM

Just saw a video on MSNBC.com about analog TVs ending up in national forests in Washington state. Some are even being used for target practice, greatly magnifying the pollution effects from the TV.

According to the video, this is happening even though free TV recycling is available. Some people are just morons.

thisOne · #50 06-22-2009, 05:15 PM

Analog rejects in the brave new digital world...

grimer · #51 06-25-2009, 09:00 PM

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zenith2134 · #52 06-25-2009, 09:32 PM

Aw, I woulda saved the bottom 19 incher in the 1st pic, looks like an RCA or GE from the early 80s

site123a · #53 06-26-2009, 11:44 AM

I would have took that 13" set in the first photo...

While walking around today I found a 25" RCA made in 2000 without A/V jacks, I saw no reason to take it so I left it. I think a lot of people in my area either got the converter box, gave away there TV or sent them to the recycling center because I'm not finding a lot of curbside finds.

One thing I find weird is that a lot of the stores I went to are out of indoor antennas, I hope people aren't buying them just because they have "DTV Ready" on the box. Even the dollor stores are out of antennas!

peverett · #54 06-26-2009, 01:12 PM

I have found that a plain old UHF loop antenna works as well as any of the indoor "DTV ready" antennas that I have purchased from Wal-Mart, etc.

I do have a special one that I have purchased from Frys(I think Andy posted a picture of this type) that I have yet to try.

grimer · #55 06-26-2009, 02:38 PM

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*zenithfan1* · #56 06-26-2009, 02:44 PM

Sounds like some heavy smoker sets, this is what their lungs look like too. I passed on a neat little 1977 7" Toshiba Black Stripe the other day that was just like you describe.

67Zenith · #57 06-26-2009, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by peverett

Just saw a video on MSNBC.com about analog TVs ending up in national forests in Washington state. Some are even being used for target practice, greatly magnifying the pollution effects from the TV.

According to the video, this is happening even though free TV recycling is available. Some people are just morons.

Target practice? People are shooting out the guts of their old analog sets? That really creeps me out. Shows the violent nature that too many people have - even shooting their old tv sets. Weird.

zenith2134 · #58 06-26-2009, 08:01 PM

Wow, clean Sony. Good find.

Yeah, I've blown up a lot of old TV's myself, but I clean up usually.......

peverett · #59 06-26-2009, 08:39 PM

From the video that I saw, these people cleaned up nothing. Just as bad is that it was in the Pacific Northwest(not the desert) where the rain, etc would quickly disperse the well beyond the original disposal site.

(I am not saying that the desert is any less succeptable to enviromental damage, just that there is usually more time to prevent the spread of it).

wa2ise · #60 06-27-2009, 03:13 PM

First BPC set I've seen around here in Bellevue is a 19 inch TV/VCR unit by Panasonic. Just yesterday Cumcast switched about half their analog channels to digital, so that may explain why someone tossed it.