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11-30-2011, 09:36 PM
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My first brand new TV was a 12" Motorola B/W I purchased in 1968 for the princely sum of $90. It look a lot of mowing yards at $2 each to come up with that money! My first new color set was a 1977 Magnavox 19" solid state, knob tuned, which set me back $350 if I recall correctly. I can't even count the number of new TV's I've purchased as an adult, probably close to 24.
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11-30-2011, 09:58 PM
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First set was a Motorola 20 inch color hybrid table model, metal cabinet with soft vinyl walnut-grain wrap, bought at employee sales when I started there in 1966. Once a year, replaced the horizontal output and damper to get the picture brightness back. This was one of the first smaller color CRTs, with internal magnetic shielding allowing a reduced cabinet size.
Many subsequent sets (at Motorola and Zenith) were home observation units - had to observe and report on performance for some months to a year, and then it would be sold to you at a used price if you wanted it. At one time, I had two identical 19 inch Motorola sets side by side, one with a new CRT phosphor formulation. The new formulation was attempting to duplicate the latest Sylvania process, in which they had used an especially thick slurry to get more brightness. The problem was that Moto's slurry-swishing machines could leave swirl marks with the thicker slurry, and they wanted to find out if untrained viewers (the engineers' family members) would notice any swirl pattern.
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11-30-2011, 10:00 PM
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11-30-2011, 10:12 PM
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I'm almost 35 and I've never purchased a new TV. I've always been able to find something used that would suit my needs; and, given what's out there, I don't have any plans of buying a new TV. I've got enough CRT sets on hand to make sure of that.
In fact, I don't remember my family buying but two new sets in my life. They bought a 19" varactor tuned RCA ColorTrak around '78. That one got a new CRT in around '82. It was used until '84, when my Dad bought a slightly used 19" Magnavox remote set from our then-TV repairman. The RCA went to my parent's bedroom and stayed around here until the mid '90's. Around '87, my Dad bought a new 13" knob tuned Emerson for $149 to replace an early '70's Truetone 13" Japanese tube color TV that was becomming more trouble than it was worth. The 13" set was used in the motorhome until the motorhome was sold. When my uncle passed away, we ended up with his 25" Zenith System 3 console and that set replaced the 19" Magnavox, that had a really weak CRT. After a year or two, the 9-160 module blew up in the Zenith console and I found my parents a 23" Zenith CCII console and that set stayed around until my Dad passed away and my Mother bought a wall unit. There's been a lot of TV's that have seen use by me; but, none of them were new.
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11-30-2011, 10:15 PM
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My first new set was a tonemaster 12 inch portable that walgreens had on display.It cost 65.88,was full of tubes,and played forever.I would have to say that was 1968.I was a kid and saved a long time to get it.The biggest thrill of it was being able to receive extra channels on the new uhf band.
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11-30-2011, 11:09 PM
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I have bought one new TV set, and I really think it will be the only one. I must have been about 13 or 14 (mid-80s). I had a TV already, a GE 23v table model from the late 60s, but it has cataracts, a busted UHF tuner and a terrible picture. I fell in love with a 19" bw Zenith that was languishing on the shelf at the local dealer but Mom & Dad wouldn't let me get it. They saw a 12" bw Magnavox in a Western Auto sales flyer for $69.95. Now, I knew all about those sets and found them boring (unlike that "stylish" Zenith) but Dad took me to WA anyway. What they actually had in stock was a Midland (oh, they're all the same anyway, said the clerk) so I handed over the $65 I had saved up, Dad paid the rest...and I had a TV. Later, after I had upgraded to a mid-70s Portacolor, I took the Midland apart with the intention of fitting it into an old radio cabinet, but that never happened.
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12-01-2011, 06:47 AM
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Bought a new Zenith B&W 12" from Woolco in 1970, think it cost right around $100. Haven't used it for thirty years or so but still have it and a couple of years ago I got it out and replaced about three tubes and it fires up fine, good picture. Probably should have 'lytics replaced.
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12-01-2011, 07:41 AM
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Reading the posts about little handheld sets reminded me that I bought one too. Back in about 2002 I bought a Casio EV-570 I think it is. Nice little LCD color set with an excellent picture. 2" standard def screen and you can read text on commercials and whatnot. I still have it and use it around the house with my Blonder tongue modulator. I have it set up at a friends house at the moment because I have house issues
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12-01-2011, 08:22 AM
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i have only purchased 3 new sets besides my infocus projector.first was a jc penny brand 32 inch that was heavy!my sister still has this and it has an outstanding picture after 20 years.i also purchased 2 toshiba 36 inch sets from pennys.these are great sets too.my mother has one and the other was given to a family that really needed a tv.the first set we had in our home when i got married was a 6 month old philco hybrid with the ford name.that had the sharpest picture!i got it from warehouse sale at sun tv.they were selling overstocks and some sets that had been serviced and not picked up.mine was allegedly serviced.it had a bad electrolytic.50.00 for it and i replaced the can when i got it home.used it for a year and i had a friend who kept trying to buy it,so i relented.it was replaced with a sylvania d-16.then i bought and sold my living room tv every few weeks.my wife said this might have contributed to our later divorce!
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12-01-2011, 11:32 AM
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My first brand-new, paid for by me, set was a 1973 RCA 15" black and white set that was all tube! The tubes were PCB mounted and I remember it having a ladder resistor set on the board where you could tweak the picture by moving the jumper around. My first colour set was a hand me down 19" Quasar (by Motorola) that needed some minor work done to it before it was able to present a decent picture.
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12-01-2011, 02:08 PM
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My first brand-new TV was a Sony KV-1922, bought for $449 at McDade & Co., a store similar to Service Merchandise in the Chicago area, in fall 1979. That set had pushbutton tuning and rotary volume and picture controls. I sold it in 1982 after I bought the Sony Profeel system.
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12-01-2011, 02:13 PM
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12-01-2011, 07:32 PM
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I never have bought a new TV myself, my parents have though. I helped my dad go shopping for the Panasonic 25" console we bought in 1986 to replace a '75 Zenith Chromacolor II table model. Then we got a 1987 Magnavox 12" black and white at Fisher's Big Wheel for the kitchen we used till the picture tube wore out and it is still in my parents attic. Then Dad got a 1993 Magnavox 27" table model which I think my parents still use today.
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