Anybody know Mitsubishi? Looking for a specific 80s TV...
 

I got this 80s Mitsubishi TV when I was in my teens, and I have never seen one since. It was a good TV, I had it for 20 years or so. It started taking forever to "warm up" before the picture would quit being distorted. At the time, I had a good job, and I didn't bother trying to fix it (if I knew then what I know now, it was probably just a couple bad caps...). Anyhow, I regret that I gave it to another relative who had an MGA tv that needed parts. That person dumped both TVs when they moved, never having fixed either, but I digress...

It was maybe a 1986-ish model, probably a 19-20" blue mask CRT, grey front bezel, woodgrain plastic sides and top, front-facing stereo speakers on each side of the CRT. That TV had a great picture, and very good sound to it. Not much bass, but very loud and clear sounding. It also had a long door along the bottom that flipped down to reveal the controls.

I remember seeing "my tv" in a Showtime commercial, back when I still had the TV, and I was like "Hey, my TV is on TV!" LOL. That commercial is on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1sISEXd57w

Basically, I am wondering if anybody might know the model number. I've just been feeling a little nostalgic lately, and I'd like to find that TV if it could be had cheap enough.

Never seen one yet. i can't help you a lot

Just in case anybody cares, I finally figured out what the model is- CS-2013R. I spotted one on Detroit Craigslist, but they want $75! Ouch! Maybe if it was $25 and about 3 hours closer, I'd get it ;)

http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/ele/5257725248.html

VERY FEW 1990's, 1980's, or 70's mIts sets interest me. They are nearly ALWAYS hot , and have all of those nasty caps on them...Only a FEW of their larger sets were cold but they STILL had all of those nast caps !!

Call me ignorant, but what do you mean by "hot"? Stolen? LOL

No...the "hot" I am refering to means hot CHASSIS--no power transformer or SMPS to ISOLATE the chassis ground. Mits were FAMOUS--WAY back--for using hot chassis, when others had transformers in them--then others often went to SMPS supply....but NOT Mits.

Mits often had a SMALL power tranny beside of the chassis, to isolate the SIGNAL areas of the set and allow AV/I/O--but the main ckty was STILL hot--with a series regulator IC

Huh, shows how much I know. I thought all that "hot chassis" stuff went out when they stopped making big metal boxes inside TVs, heh.

Although I am a fan of CRT TVs, I don't work on them very often. I served my time mostly working on stereo equipment and computers, and most recently, flat panel TVs.

I do not think I have EVER seen a hot flat-panel set. ALL of them use an SMPS supply--or more recently-- a "brick" type supply externally--which usually has an SMPS Inside of it..

I have a Mitsubishi-made set from 1987. Mono set with a random-access keypad. No problems with it yet.

There's a late 1980s vintage Mitsubishi/MGA 13" Color TV at the local Salvation Army Thrift near me for sale but no one has ever bothered to buy it, its a mono set and its missing its original remote and the front panel access door is missing on it but other than that its still in good shape, I think they were wanting like $5 for the set...:scratch2:

I had a slightly older Mitsubishi. It was made in 1984, and it was the weirdest TV I had seen up to that point.

Like yours, the CRT phosphor was blue. Initially I thought it was some sort of specialized monochrome monitor, but nope! It was a color TV!

The back looked like something from the 1940's And IIRC it had composite video.

Now that I think about it, I had a 13" TV from 1984 that had S-video. (technically) It had separate RCA inputs for luma and chroma and accepted an S-video signal with no problem.

I think they were giving Sony a run for their money! IIRC, that blue screen set was very pricey.
It worked OK, but nothing special.
I have a Mits, that was a dollar set from the GW, that was either made by Orion or Daewoo. I think, they getting out of the small screen business, by then.

Of all my sets, the Electrohome-labeled Mitsu did the best job with my crappy analog cable signal, whose last channel was shut down a couple of days ago, boo.

My biggest experience with Mits TV's are the ones from the '90's and I finally stopped taking them in because of the number of leaking capacitors that often ate the foil off the PC board. One thing I'll say for them is I don't recall ever seeing a bad CRT in one.