Can you recall every tv you ever had?

[Adam]

Can you remember not just what sets you have now, but every tv you've ever had even if you just picked it up on the curb and parted it out immediately? I couldn't sleep and I was thinking about this.

This is every tv I've ever had, I think, I probably missed a few.

color:

Curtis-Mathes
early-70s 19" remote

GE
1972 11" Portacolor
1968 11" Portacolor

Goldstar
1988 remote
1988 remote

Hitachi
1976

Magnavox:
1967 23" console
1965 21" roundie combo remote

Philco:
1963 21" roundie combo (*w)

RCA
1991 remote
1985
1981 13" remote
1978 25" CTC-92 console remote
1975 25" metal cabinet
1975 19"
1965 21" CTC-15 combo
1960 21" CTC-10 console remote (*w)

Sony
1988 remote
late-70s

Supra-Macy
1976 13" remote

Toshiba
1988 13" remote

Viking
1968

Zenith
1986 System 3 remote
1984
1984 25" System 3 console remote
1983 25" System 3 metal cabinet remote
1982 25" System 3 console
1975 19" CC II SC600
1975 19" CC II console SC600
1971 19" 4-tube hybrid
1968 21" metal cabinet (*w)
1967 25" console
1964 21" 25MC33 chinese cabinet SC400 (*)

...

b/w sets:

Admiral
1948 10" 20A1 combo (p)
1948 10" 20A1 combo
1988 12" ss

Airline
1963 23" combo

Bendix
1956 17"

Dumont
1950 19" RA112 console (*)

Emerson
1948? 7" (p)
1957 21" console
1968? 12" tube

GE
1948 806 10" (*)
1974 12" tube

Hallicrafters
1948? 10" (p)
1949? 12" (p)

Hitachi
mid-70s 12" ss

Hoffman
1949 610 10" (*w)
1958 17"

Magnavox
1959 24" combo (*w)
1959 24" combo (p)
1967 12" tube

MGA
mid-70s 12" ss

Montgomery Ward
1985 5" portable ss
1987 12" ss

Motorola
1948 7" TS4J (p)
1948 7" TS4J (*)
1948 7" TS4J (*)
1948 7" TS4J suitcase cabinet (*)
1949 8" (*)
1949 8" (p)
1951 17" bakelite cabinet (*)
1952? bakelite cabinet

Olympic
1959 21" combo

Pacific-Mercury
1948 12" (*w)

Philco
1957 21" metal cabinet
1958 17" Predicta (*)

RCA
1946 10" 630TS (*)
1947 10" 721TS (*w)
1947? 730TV (p)
1949 10" T100 (p)
1950 16" 6T65 console (*)
1950? 19" console
1956 8" 8-PT-1014 metal cabinet (*w)
1958 21" console wired remote
mid-60s 21"
mid-60s 21"
1970? 12" tube
1980? 12" ss

Setchell-Carlson
1958 21" console

Sony
mid-60s 5" portable ss

Sylvania
1958 17" metal cabinet (*w)

Teletone
1951? 14" bakelite cabinet (*)

Westinghouse
1954 21" console (*w)

Zenith
1956 21"
1960 21" console (p)
1960 17" metal cabinet SC300 (*w)
1961 23" console (*w)
1961 19" metal cabinet (*w)
mid-60s 16"
1970 23" metal cabinet (*w)
1971 19" SC
mid-70s 12" portable ss
1982? 12" ss

61 b/w sets, 33 color sets, 94 sets total

...
I added in a few sets that I missed. And (*) means I still have it, with a (*w) it currently works, and with a (p) I still have the chassis or other parts.

[zenith2134]

Every one ever, huh?

RCA:

1986 CTC-130
1987 CTC-130C
1984 CTC-121J
1983 CTC-117A
1981 b&w 12"
1980 CTC-97
1977 CTC-89

Magnavox:
1984 19" (NAP)
1980 13" color
1978 12" b&w

Zenith:

1987 13" color x2
1986 19" System 3
1988 25" System 3
1984 19" basic
1983 19" 'Custom Series' x2
1981 25" System 3
1979 25" System 3 with Zoom and Space Command
1977 CCII in rough shape

Sylvania:

1981 GTMatic (GTE) 19"
1974 25" color
1979 19" B&W Portable
1984 13" color (philips)

Sony:
2004 WEGA 27FS120 (lasted 3 years or so)
1999 35" Trinitron
1991 13"
1987 KV2729R
1983 19" Trinitron
1977 KV1712
1976 KV1203(?)
1973 KV-1510

Admiral:
1978 12" b&w
1952 21" b&w x2
1966 19" portable b&w

GE:
1982 17" color
1975 12" B&W SF-series portable
1972 16" color portable
1966 Portacolor 11"

Samsung:
1982 13" color with IR remote (first TV!)

Forgetting a whole bunch more (total is at 40, there are others buried somewhere nearby though in the shed and attic)

[kx250rider]

I tried to list them all in my head, but my processor locked, and smoke came out of my ears

I only really remember the first 5 or 6 sets I had, then literally 1000s, or tens of 1000s passed through my hands between 1976 and now. Amazingly, I still have the very first set that I bamboozled a neighbor into giving me when I was 9. It's a 23" Magnavox B&W wood table model with remote. Circa 1959. The second one was a 1955 RCA 21" console, and the third was an RCA 19" plastic portable from about '65. I still have the RCA portable, and it still works (afaik). Then I met another neighbor who was a TV nut, and I got an Emerson 21" console B&W with doors, a Sentinel console with upside-down chassis, and a Motorola late 50s metal 21" table model. Later from the same neighbor, a Curtis-Mathes 23" combo, an RCA CTC-19 metal table model, a Hitachi 19" color tube set (metal table model), and probably a couple more. This would be around 1978-79. Beyond that, the memory is spotty. My first small round tube set that I got as a collectible TV was a Hoffman 10" blond table model with doors. That was in about 1977. All of the others I mentioned weren't meant to be collector TVs... They were still new enough at the time to be daily watchers, if working! My first color TV was a 1967 Packard-Bell 21CT7 roundie. I remember being fascinated that it was the same age I was, and it was 10 years old.

Charles

[old_tv_nut]

No.

[AUdubon5425]

Hmmm...

Growing up, my parents had:

1970 RCA Lundberg, CTC-40 (1970-c.1988)
c. 1970 RCA 19" color remote tabletop, remote was sonic and had two long silver buttons hinged at the top (70-87)
1987 RCA 25/27" color set - died around '94.
c.1989 Zenith 19" color, digital tuner, not cable ready, System 3?

Sets that were mine:

c.1983 Panasonic 12" B&W (83-85)
1985 Magnavox 19" color with digital tuning, not cable ready (85-03)
1977 Zenith 19" B&W (90-03)
mid-80's Candle 19" color set, shiny black plastic w/knobs (97-98)
c. 1989 Sears 13" color remote, osd (98-08)
c.1973 Philco Ford 9" B&W, model 311BTG, chassis no. 3BH15 (98-present)
11/75 Quasar console 25", totl set, very heavy, identical set on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DZjvWy9ZfA (98-99)
11/80 Quasar console 25", particle board cabinet (03-04)
c.1966 Zenith 13" B&W portable, needs tuner alignment (05-present)
6/78 RCA XL-100 13" color, model EC333W (06-present)
two c.1977 12" B&W Zeniths, one no pic one no sound, had to let go (06)
2005 Durabrand 27" CRT color set, free (07-present)
1965 Magnavox 23" B&W console, U44 chassis (08-present)

That makes 14 sets, 5 of which I have now. Of course, I'm just beginning to learn about repairing these. Wish I still had my parents' 1970 RCAs and that 19" '77 B&W Zenith, that TV saw a lot of use between my mother and I over the years.

[MRX37]

I'm just going to go with TV's that I actually owned and watched for awhile, rather then TV's that I either found and pitched, or parted out.

First TV that was specifically mine, that I paid money for was a 1978 RCA colortrak. Bought it at a junk store. What CTC it was I have no clue. Had one dial for VHF and some UHF channels. Also had a light sensor to brighten or darken the picture based on the light level of the room.

The first large TV I had was a 27 inch Curits Mathes TV I believe. Made in 1991. probably a rebadged Zenith now that I think about it. By the time I got it, the CRT had a green tint, and the corners were very fuzzy. That one didn't last very long...

First new TV I had was a 1994 Emerson TV/VCR combo. VCR part had dead bugs in it when we bought it. a few years later, the VCR part crapped out and I sold it.

My mom's TV was a 19 inch 1991 RCA Colortrak 2000. That TV eventually became mine, and I ended up selling it because of a tiny nick in the screen that just bothered the hell out of me, and a slightly tilted picture.

Various 13 inch color and B/W TV's. a TV made by Portland from 1983 that had a concave picture, and was very out of focus. Did not know about focus adjustments at the time, nor about filter caps/power supplies.

Right now I have two RCA colortraks from 1984, one being a 25 inch console with A/V inputs. I also have another 1991 Colortrak 2000 that I've been slowly recapping. This one has no tilted picture. I have a 27 inch Zenith from 1998 that I'm currently letting someone use, and I have a 56 inch RCA projection TV that I let everybody else use, because I'm just not a fan of projection TV's.

[zenithfan1]

I could but, there's no way I'm going to type them all out. Nor am am I going to sit and think about it that much. I too would have smoke coming out of my ears. LOL!! Maybe one rainy day I'll bump this thread with my list.

[wa2ise]

Let's see...

My father's mom's 1950 rectangular CRT B&W Admiral in the bakelite console.
A vaguely remembered B&W set somewhat similar to my RCA 21T8395 (long gone)
Westinghouse B&W, only the empty cabinet remains.
Sylvania 17 or 19 inch tube B&W portable (long gone)
A B&W portable with tubes, made in Hong Kong. (long gone)
B&W GE portable using compactron tubes. (long gone)
Sylvania SS B&W portable set.
RCA CTC 101 color TV with comb filter
RCA CTC 121 with baseband video inputs
Sony 21 inch color TV

And the ones at my web page:
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/radios/tv.html

[onepixel]

I need to watch more tv... cause I can't recall what I have now.

[jfrog1983]

My first collection(can't remember model numbers):

2 old RCA B/W portables, one fully tube, one hybrid, the older fully tubed one said "RCA Victor" and had the dog and record player symbol too!

A 20something inch JC Penney that I had to slap on the side to make the picture pop up...

An 1980s Toshiba 13incher color

At one time I had an RCA CTC-92 with an intermittent tuner problem that got worse and worse till finally it went out completely, not to mention the picture tube being worn.

All the above got junked at different times because we didn't have the room at the time...

Now, I've started collecting TV's again, and have more space this time, and I keep finding all Zenith this time!!!

There's the 3 I recently posted and that includes my first 1950s TV I've ever owned.

I also got a couple of Sony Trinitrons, one with a 12" picture tube and the high voltage section also has a tube, looks similar on the inside to a KV-1200, works for the most part but has some minor problem where you can see parts of the vertical spacing bar fold over to the top of the screen mostly when watching Macrovision processed content, and sometimes the CC info. The other Trinitron, 17" I think, has a worn out picture tube. Also got a KV-1222 in pretty good conditon, and a KV-1311CR that just recently developed a problem where the picture has pulled away from the right side of the screen a bit.

My grandparents gave me a nice RCA hybrid that still worked but had a worn picture tube, unfortunately it eventually got tossed, which is a non-issue as the Chromacolor more than makes up for it!

That's about it, aside from some portables I have kicking around.

[bgadow]

Whoa, boy, should I try this? Heck, why not, I'm not doing anything else:
(*=still have it)
(took me about an hour and a half to compile this, and I know I'm missing some!)

Acton-
12" bw

Admiral-
10" twin chassis console*
10" bakelite console*
12" wood console*
15" bakelite table model*
19" portable, mid 60s*
19" portable, late 60s*
21" portable, early 60s
T1000 color roundie*
mid-60s color roundie console
late 60s 23v color console
early 70s 23v table model
later hybrid 25v console
19" color, Taiwan
19" color, late 70s
late 60s bw console

Airline-
early 70s hybrid color, 10" (Admiral)*
slightly later model, same as above*
late 80s Montgomery Ward 19" color*

Andrea-
15" round bw console*

Boshei-
12" bw*
13" color

Bradford-
GE 'CE' chassis color table model

CBS-Columbia-
15" table model*

Curtis Mathes-
12" ss bw*
19" color, late 70s

DuMont-
'57 21" console
'70 23v color table model*

Emerson-
15" bakelite table model*
15" wooden table model* (just saved chassis)
21" bw table model*
mid-50s portable*
early 60s briefcase portable*
80s 25" table model

General Electric-
late 40s 10" table model*
early 60s briefcase portable
another early 60s briefcase portable*
early 60s bw console
12" bw*
12" bw, upright*
12" bw like above, red/white/blue
12" bw like above, green
60s portacolor*
'74 portacolor, from AK member*
'74 portacolor, from flea market
'75 portacolor
early 80s AB color
another AB*
yet another AA/AB
15" AC color (or something like that)*
CE chassis color, from guy down street
CE chassis color, 18v*
CE chassis color, 19v*
late 70s 19v
early ss console
mid-70s ss console
early 80s console
23v table model, KC chassis?
another similiar to above
KE chassis console
'90 19"

Hotpoint-
one of those tiny and cheap 8" portables*

JCPenney-
late 70s 19" color (RCA)

JVC-
Delmonico/Nivico small screen portable*
Delmonico/Nivico 12" bw*
15" color
19" color

KMC-
12" bw

Longines Symphonette-
small screen portable*

Magnavox-
12" bw hybrid*
19" briefcase portable, ss*
late 70s 19" table model
late 70s console
early 70s remote console, ss
late 80s console
early 70s tube console
early 90s 19"

Motorola-
7" electrostatic*
21" bw console, mid-50s*
21" bw console, 1960*
21" bw table, 1959*
21" table model color, 1969*
'67 table model color, gray
same as above but woodgrain
very late Motorola Quasar hybrid 19"

Olympic-
early 60s briefcase portable*

Panasonic-
12" bw, hybrid*
12" bw, ss
60s 9" bw*
late 70s 9" color*
late 70s 19" color
early 70s 9" bw

Philco-
'50 12" bw table*
15" metal table model
15" metal table model, round tube*
15" console
mid-50s 21" console
same as above but with wired remote
table model 21" bw*
early 60s 19" table model*
cheap Predicta*
12" bw, 60s*
12" bw, early 70s*
more mod version of above*
late 60s console
Seventeener II*
another Seventeener*
60s Seventeener*

Pilot-
3", no crt*
3", green crt*

RCA-
630ts*
641ts*
721ts*
console combo version of the 721
'48 10" table model*
'49 version of above*
12" bakelite table model*
12" console*
15" console
21" bw console (my first old tv)*
21" bw console, older than above*
23" bw console
early 60s briefcase portable*
CTC-5*
CTC-11*
CTC-12*
CTC-15*
CTC-15 combo
CTC-31
CTC-40 combo
early 70s ss console
mid/late 70s console
early 80s console, cheap
early 80s console, nicer
late 80s console
mid/late 70s 21" table model
12" bw, hybrid*
later 60s 19" bw portable*
CTC-53
another 53*
and another*
Mural 53*
predeccesor to the 53?*
late 60s Mural 19" (series string)
late 60s 15" color*
early 70s 15" hybrid color*
another like above
clock radio/tv, 70s*
36" console

Samsung-
13" color*

Sears-
15" bw combo
21" bw console*
early 60s Toshiba-built portable
late 70s 13" color*
late 70s 19" color
late 70s console
60s 9" bw*
early 70s hybrid 10" color*
5" color portable, 80s
21" bw table model*

Setchell-Carlson-
early 60s portable*

Sony-
early 60s 5"*
like above, with UHF*
late 60s 9"*
mid-70s color, maybe 13"

Sylvania-
'67 23v table model color*
late 60s table model color
early ss console
'76 console
late GTE 19"
early NAP 19"
'91 19"(living room tv)*
mid-50s Halo-Lite*
late-60s Halo-Lite*
Dualette portable*
junky late model Funai combo

Teknika-
13" color remote*

Tele-Tone-
7" electrostatic*

Toshiba-
late model 32"

Transvision-
12" kit-bit console*

Westinghouse-
early 60s 19" briefcase portable*
late 60s 12" bw

Zenith-
'49 porthole*
later porthole, chassis/crt only*
21" bw console, '53
Flash Matic 21" console*
Space Command 400 21" bw console*
cheap late 50s console
21" console, c.1960
25MC30 color*
25MC33 color
early rectangular color console
late 60s 23v color console
another like above
15" color hybrid*
18" color hybrid*
and another*
4-tube 19" plain*
like above but remote
horizontal chassis ss console
CCII 19"
19" color with remote/Zoom
late 80s 19", nice
as above, junk
late 70s 13" color*
late 80s 13" color*
19" bw portable*
56 bw portable
57 bw portable*
early 70s bw console*
early 70s 15" bw portable*
late 80s console
junk late 80s 19"

Unknown-
real nice 19" multistandard, Japanese, can't recall brand

[freakaftr8]

I'll get back to you on that, I can recall every car I have owned! lol

[zenithfan1]

[stereodctr]

Have never watched much tv so my list is very short.

RCA 12" B&W
Sony 17" non remote
Mitusbishi 19"
Quasar 20"

Still using the Quasar as my main tv and the Mitsu in the bedroom.

[Trance88]

Every TV owned by me and TVs owned by my mom and dad when they were together (since I was born).


Off brand Thomas 20" TV from 1987 (1987-1991)

Fisher 20" TV from 1991 (1991 - 2002) It pretty much became my TV in 1998. Picture started getting distorted in 2001. By 2002 there was just a little bit in the center. I'm guessing the vertical output went dead. I wanted to get it fixed but it got trashed in 2005.

RCA 20" TV from 1988. My first tv and it was an extremely weird set. I called it the "Ghost TV" because it had a mind of its own. It was given to me by the landlord in 1996 and died in 1997 with a slap to the top by my dad. The TV would occasionally freak out and do goofy things like change channel or increase the volume by itself. Being only 8 years old when I had it, it really freaked me out.

Sylvainia 25" from possibly 1987? (1996-1997)

RCA 32" from 1998 (1998-present)

RCA 25" from 2002 (First TV I ever bought 2002-present)

Emerson 13" B&W from 1987 (2006-present)

Zenith 5" B&W from 1981 (2008)

Sony 13" Trinitron from 1984 (2008)