No more Tvs at Goodwill

[anteater81]

Why are so many of Electrohome's posts represented by ellipses now? I enjoyed his posts and don't understand why they've been done away with.

[zenithfan1]

Just goes to show you where the "free speech" went in this country....

[electronjohn]

So...my hope in finding a 40" Mitsubishi CRT set for under $100 is not a false hope? My 13 year old 31" RCA still looks great...so why replace it? I see all kinds of 32-36" sets for sale for around $100...but I want the big Mitsu.

[Trance88]

One of my local goodwills specifically said they don't plan to stop selling CRT Type TV's!! It must be a region type thing.

[zenithfan1]

Guess what? They finally wised up and let tvs be donated again. I was pleasantly surprised to find an '80 Magnavox console with some 80's and 90's bpc. Looks like I'll be looking for sets there again, never know what will turn up!

[Glenn Waters]

I was wondering why I did not see any more beautiful consoles in the stores. Horrible monsters, the gods of electronics are not pleased with this at all. It is another dirty blow to the safe keeping of our past for future generations. Why I would bet the communist are behind this or some other thought controlling group.

[Electrohome]

The TV pictured in the above post by Glenn Waters looks almost identical to my 1978 Sears/Sanyo console I got a couple of years ago. I wonder if this TV is a Sears or a Sanyo-just curious. They sure don't make TVs like they used to. I wonder how many of today's TVs will still be working in 30 years-LOL:-)

[colorfixer]

There's more sources than Goodwill: Also try "The Society of St. Vincent's de Paul". They run a thrift store that gets better stuff, and the smaller the town, the better the stuff, and the prices are more reasonable.

[rca2000]

The word seems to be "getting out" around here, at least, about Flat--panel sets.

People seem to be figuring out just HOW POORLY flat--panel tv sets are made. How they fail in a year or two, how they can be broken about as easily as a egg, and for plasma tv's--how much power they draw, in addition to being even MORE unreliable than LCD flat--panel sets.

So...some smart people are now realizing that those "old fashioned" CRT sets WERE the best after all, and also hard to break physically. Sure--many want the "latest", but many are also not happy with knowing that a typical decent--CRT type set will outlast FIVE flat--panel sets, or if it is LIGHTLY bumped on the front-- a flat--panel is junk!!

And also--I think the "myths" about analog sets being USELESS is being overcome now--too. People are now learning with a $30 converter--their old CRT set will work just FINE on digital OTA signals. So....people are again getting a normal crt set, for a "quick cheap, reliable set" for the bedroom, kitchen, and even main set.

I guess the Goodwill has learned that too.

[kx250rider]

Cash talks, and I'd hope that one of two things will happen: The thrift stores will discover that they can get more $ for collectible TVs than the recycler will pay, or the recycler will discover the same, and will start putting vintage TVs aside and selling them. I've seen several on eBay which were offered by e-waste contractors. (political content regarding California self-edited)

Charles

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[Glenn Waters]

Hi Electrohome
The TV in the photo in my above post with Karah and pictured below with Grantley is a 1986 Curtis Mathes console made in Athens Texas. I once worked for Curtis Mathes in the 1980's!
I think two things just cannot be improved upon in this world the classic console TV with a well built CRT and the V-8 engine. This idea of plan obsolescent is stupid. From RCA Select-a-vision disks to Beta, to VHS, to Laser Disks, to DVD to what is it now Blue Ray. This is just a way to make folks throw away what they have and buy more. I still play my LP records and my 8 track tapes. I have a room full of VHS movies and enough really good players to last my life. I even have a huge collection of RCA Select-a-vision disks and three player! They all work, the public is stupid and gullible.

They can keep the cheap made in Asia junk, I will keep my nice made in the USA good stuff.
Like my made in Glenview Illinois, Zenith console below. Lets see speakers like that on a made in China flat LCD.

[Electrohome]

I have over 1500 Betamax tapes 1976-1990's and about 14 early 1976-78 Betamax VCRs along with 4 RCA VBT 200 VHS VCRS from 1977-78 with over 2000 VHS tapes as well:-) Yep, also got an RCA CED video disc player I trash picked in about 2001 with about 4 or 5 CED video discs. There's always something good on Selectavision:-)
I found several B&W 12-inch portable TVs in the trash from 1973-about 81-82 and they all pretty well work:-) These were mainly used as kitchen ,bedroom and camper or cottage TVs back in the 1970's and 1980's.
That picture with the 1986 Curtis Mathes w/Grantley looks like it was taken in about 1987ish just by the way the sunlight is and the older circa early 1950's red brick bungalow in the background-reminds me of my childhood when I was a kid in the 1980's:-) They sure don't make TVs like they used to-I just wonder how many TVs made today will still be around in 25-30 years still working. All this Made In China junk will just be in the landfill in 10 years anyway. I also have a 1986 Made In Japan Betamax that still works no problem that I watch my good qaulity Betamax tapes on. Beta always had a better picture than VHS. I'll bet this very computer I'm typing this on won't be around in another 10 years either. I really wish TVs and electronics in general wound be made in the USA and Canada again.

Cheers from Electrohome:-)

[colorfixer]

I've given up on chinese junk electronics. Every time I run across something reasonably new, and dead, its always made in China. There isn't a mandate for quality, just pump it out and do it as cheaply as possible.

Case in point: How many chinese 19" tv's will still be working 20+ years from now? Lets give them the advantage: how many "New in box" chinese electronics will be working 20+ years from now? I doubt many. I pulled a 19" sanyo monitor out of the box after 28 years of hibernation in a warehouse (google "time travel warehouse"). The thing worked 100% the first time, and its still A-ok. I even out of paranoia checked a few caps on the board, and they all test out perfect. KX250rider's KV-1201 is another perfect example.

People are getting tired of crap. It's only a matter of time before they vote with their $$$, which will be the prime mover for the manufacturers.

[mbates14]

The only good thing that came out of this, at least for me, maybe a few others, the service industry is booming again selectively.

people dont want to go out and go get another TV because they had just bought this one, even though it may have been cheap at the time. so people get it repaired.

the death cycle about all this, only the select few are even repairable, reasonably.