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04-01-2013, 03:43 PM
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Waste of a Good TV
Look at what someone threw out in the carport. Must have got a new flat screen for Christmas. 299 at walmart. I was told to pick it up. Where not even at home and a rain storm was coming.
Curtis Mathes M2662RH, was 1600 in 1986. Filthy when i got it and paint spots. Dusted it off. Plugged it in. Look at it now. Even has a working radio. 
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04-16-2013, 11:25 PM
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She is beautiful buddy!!! People are fools and dont realise what they are getting rid of!!!
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04-22-2013, 01:38 PM
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Wait, back up the train...somebody curbed an XBR800?? For the love of...
I lusted over those sets when they cost $4k new..I finally got one a few years ago on Craigslist. $240, clean, low hours, original remote. I'm still looking for the original SU-40XBR8 stand, and a replacement front control panel door/cover. I love this TV; probably the best I've ever owned...
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05-21-2013, 09:09 AM
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stand. Figured a 35". Boss told him $35 + $15 for the stand. A few minutes later I look up & see a 40" XBR on the matching base. It was hit by lightning. Asked the customer if he wanted us to estimate it, he said no that he didnt want it, insurance paid for it anyways. Usually lightning will destroy a modern set. This time it was just the fuse................ A few phone calls & it was gone, $1500 cash & carry. BTW when moving one of those beasts strap it to board. Too much pressure on the bottom will cave it in. Happend to a shop in my area. We sold a few of them & had a moving co. put it in the room first then go set it up. 73 Zeno
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04-05-2013, 05:56 PM
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I was out trying out the new transmission in my car, when I came across a nice looking 36" BPC JVC TV with the remote sitting on top. For some unknown reason, I stopped and picked it up. Took it home.
I opened it up, and it looks like brand new inside. No dirt or dust of any kind. I re-soldered the flyback, and the typical problem areas, just in case, and fired it up. Perfect picture/sound. Twin tuners, and picture in picture. Brand new in 1995. Beside where it was sitting was a brand new flatscreen box. I knew the rest of the story. This is my first 36" TV, ever. I'm sure glad that I had a friend riding with me to help pick it up... if it had not worked, he would have taken it for the copper in the yoke. Last edited by holmesuser01; 05-24-2014 at 04:08 PM.
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04-06-2013, 10:28 AM
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1. People want a wide-screen high definition TV to be able to view BluRay and High Definition cable, satellite and cable programming at its best. 2. People need a TV that will tune current over-the-air digital material. 3. People don't want to have to carry such heavy TV in for service, assuming there is local service still available. 4. People want a TV that can display 3-D content.
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04-06-2013, 11:07 AM
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I blame at least some of this on the DTV transition. The early announcements that digital TV would eventually take over from NTSC television ("Your old TV will go black after February 17 [later June 19], 2009") had people believing that their old TVs would not work, period, once the new standards took effect. This was before DTV converter boxes came on the market; in those days, the only way to continue watching TV when the analog stations went off the air was to get a flat screen. Those sets were extremely expensive in the beginning, so not everyone had one or could afford one immediately following the transition. Some people even went without TV when they found out their old sets wouldn't work anymore with the new digital signals; of course, in many cases the old TV went out for the trash.
There were many predictions made to the effect that people would throw out their old TVs as soon as the transition was announced. I had visions of televisions, most of which were still working perfectly well, showing up on tree lawns and curbs all across the United States, after this announcement was made. Didn't see any old sets out for the trash in my own neighborhood, a very small town 35 miles east of Cleveland, but I bet in the greater Cleveland area perfectly good, working TVs were put out one after another. These people probably did not realize that the analog stations would remain on the air for at least a year after the transition.
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i don't think they should have shut the analog signal off for at least ten years. I think it was the tv industries way of making everyone start over. The signals are not that good, i live in a rural area and we only get a few channels. Had to go to satellite. Which cost money of course. Now you have all these tvs that are useless unless you buy an expensive converter. Makes small portables obsolete.
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