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Why do you like old tv sets?
Why do you like old tv sets?
For me... the stile and the fact that remember you of old days (ha, I do admire periods when I wasn't even borned). Plus the thing that you know how people worked to manufacture them. |
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For me it's the fact that so many of them have lasted so long.
We're talking 30... 40... 50+ years and beyond, and until you get into the pre 60's stuff, most of them just need simple cleaning and maintenance to get them working like new again. And before the internet, TV was how I entertained myself |
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Nostalgia.
For watching vintage recordings in the manner in which they were originally viewed. Technological history. Amusement. A challenge to repair, followed by a great sense of accomplishment when resolving a difficult problem. Training the mind to solve those aforementioned difficult problems. And lots of other reasons. . |
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I can and will embrace new tech when it comes along, but there's just something about older tech that seems more fascinating to me... |
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... before that, I actually watched NFL and MLB games on it. But the other reasons are true. Also ... I simply love complexity and lots of wires. Nothing turned me on more that my last laser setup ... over 200 cables, four permanently on Tektronix (analog ... better suited for purpose) scopes hanging down above it on Lazy Susans, power supplies running on 480 volt power, etc. And 12 kilowatts of chilled water to hold the temperate constant to +- 1 degree F. An earlier experiment used liquid helium cooled preamps ... those are also a real turnon, though you really really don't want to get hit by a blast of liquid helium! When I was a sub-teen kid I was obsessed with the wiring of our console radio-phono, a Motorola 107F31. This object is far too big for me to want one now. FM tuner used a Loktal. I also loved the two-chassis Philco TVs. I love the Collins R390A radio for that reason. In grad school I built an interface for a PDP8E that had 2000 wire wrapped wires in it. Later I designed a mag tape controller for a computer (though it was built by a technician.) This was fun! |
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To me, old tube television sets are simply amazing.
Think about it. Glass bulbs. Red-hot glowing elements. Bits of steel plates. Coils of wire. Tubes of paper, wax and aluminum. Pieces of carbon with wires sticking out. Doughnut shaped pieces of ferrite metal bits. Crude, simple, elementary bits and pieces of raw materials combined in just the right way, inside a box to pluck moving pictures and sound out of thin air, able to bring news, entertainment, sports, major events, to one's very own home.
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Just think about it. I can walk up to a finely styled wooden box, pull out a knob, and have a bunch of copper, paper, plastic, and steel throw thousands (possibly millions) of tiny dots in perfect coordination to produce a picture that moves every millisecond, for hours from invisible beams shooting through the air. Most kids these days see them as outdated junk. |
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I love CRTs .. I do not like digital crap..... I prefer natural colours and analogue!! |
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Simply put: They work, and rarely fail. When they do, pennies bring them back to life in most cases.
I'd stack any solid state set made in the early 70s up through the mid 80s next to this "buy a new one every 3 years" BS on the market today. I have a 17" 1980 Sony in my spare bedroom, a 1981 Sony 15" in my kitchen, and a 1985 Sony 19" in the main bedroom. All pulled from the trash. One or two electrolytics replaced in each to restore them to perfect operating condition. CRTs all look as new. All 3 on digital converters and outdoor antenna. The 1985 Sony has AV inputs, so it's been brought into the 21st century with a Roku box. We have the second to last Sony HD, 16X9, 34" CRT set in the LR (KD34XS960- 2006). Has internal digital tuner. It's on the outdoor antenna too, but it's also tethered to Fios basic service. Trash picked with the matching stand, remote, and instructions. Replaced two ICs in the power supply 5 years ago when I got it ($11), and it's worked since. Yeah, it's a heavy beast, but it fits nicely in the corner we have it in. My mother (and almost everyone I know that has one) has replaced her flat panel every three years after failures. Need I say any more? Last edited by TV Engineer; 03-14-2017 at 05:29 PM. |
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I like them because they're attractive to look at. A lot of old TV's are industrial art.
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That's my favourite view of an old television, I almost see those electron beams drawing the picture!
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To understand a bygone era, you should use things from it Last edited by Gleb; 04-19-2017 at 04:11 PM. |
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Beams of moving electrons!
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Memories of childhood... The tv in my avatar is a set me and my dad worked on and got running.. (still looking) Some have cool cabinets, and its fun bringing em back from the dead...
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Nostalgia and the fact that the older sets can be serviced when they develop a issue, as opposed to the new sets that are usually impossible to repair. I grew up around these old sets in daily use and had a couple of family members who repaired TVs who taught me how to service them.
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