My speakers lasted many, many years. I used them in the LR for both the TV and for a small stereo, via a relay setup. All was well until we had a housecleaner for awhile. Although instructed not to touch anything electronic, I returned one day to find she had turned on the stereo, and cranked it to be able to hear the tunes over the vacuum cleaner she was running. Speakers were toast. She was fired on the spot. Drivers replaced with round Sony boombox drivers and RTV goo by TV repair shop who had "done this before". Yeah, they work, but... ugh.

The speakers (three maybe) with the "spare" set have not been evaluated since they came in the door, so their status is unknown.

Foot touch controls on the pedestal were cute, until you realized that it all had to happen thru the cable box...

Chip

Hmm, I'd like to check out those 16:9 RCA sets. I didn't know they had done any 16:9 sets with curved-face CRTs.

I have a tall wood console RCA 16:9 sitting in our barn; 34" if I recall. The tube is a little gassy, so I quit using it about 8 years ago. There were at least two sizes of those, and maybe more. My ex-GF has a table model 16:9 curved tube RCA; newer than the one in the barn, and I'll ask her to let me know if it quits, and I'll rescue it. Hers has a built-in DirecTV receiver. Mine is 1994, and I think is only pseudo-HD (maybe 440 if that). Hers is 1080i. Same as this ProScan version: http://www.shopping.com/Proscan-PS38000/info

Charles

Hers is the F38310. If I had infinite room, it is one of the sets I would like to own.