1988 JCPenny portable color tv

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Originally Posted by vortalexfan

I have a portable Color TV very similar to yours that I picked up for $5 at the local SA thriftstore (which ended up closing up shop for good during the C-19 Plandemic) several years ago and it was a low hours TV that had a kind of dim picture that I was able to fix by adjusting the G2 adjustment in the back of the TV and it has a really good picture yet.

The only issue it has is that the controls are dirty/noisy, which I haven't been able to clean the controls because they're hard to get to, and an interesting feature that my TV has that most portable TVs don't have is that it has 300 ohm antenna terminals on the side which is nice because the TV can then be used with either a converter box or a RF Modulator or a VCR which makes it a very versitile TV and still useful in the digital era.

Mine is a Montgomery Wards TV from June 1981, I'm not sure who made it for Monkey Wards though.

I mainly use it for troubleshooting DVD Players and VCRs right now (because its small enough to fit on my workbench and not take up a lot of space) but I'm thinking of possibly using it in either my kitchen or my dining room, or maybe even my bedroom.

Sharp made a lot of sets for M/Wards. Usually the CRT label has the set maker on it.