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Low end from the early '90's:
1. 12" B&W sets with rotary tuners (yes, they were still made in the early '90's).
2. 13"/19" color TV's with a manual power/volume knob and rotary tuners. These were available in the USA until '93, when it was mandated that all TV's 13" and larger must have a built-in CC decoder. It was now easier for companies to build TV's with electronic microprocessor tuning control with the CC decoder built in the microprocessor than to house a CC decoder inside a rotary tuned set. The main people buying rotary tuned sets in the early '90's were the elderly, who did not want change. These TV's usually had no A/V input jacks.
Next, there were non-remote sets with digital pushbutton channel selection. Some were cable ready, while others would only tune OTA channels. These sets usually didn't have A/V inut jacks.
Moving up, there were remote controlled sets with cable ready electronic tuning. Some of these sets had an LED channel readout and others had OSD. There were usually no A/V jacks on these.
Next, we had sets that met the description of TV's described directly above, except these set had stereo sound and many had at least one set of A/V input jacks.
The higher end sets had what I mentioned above plus the addition of PIP, better speakers, a decent audio amp, connections for external speakers, various A/V jacks, and an elaborate menu system that would allow channel labels, etc.
Today, even the cheapest TV will have A/V jacks, a remote, and other features that would have only been found on high end sets 20 years ago.
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