Watching the SuperBowl on your vintage TV?
 

I will never learn how to take decent live shots with my digital camera. Anyway, you get the general idea. My 630TS is receiving a local station on an amplified rabbit ear antenna.

I'm not that much of a sports fan, but with my wife out of town, this is a rare opportunity to watch a Big Game on a small B/W television without anyone laughing!

Phil Nelson

Hey Phil,

Just the way lots of folks watched football 60 years ago. Very cool.

-Steve D.

I just remembered this 1947 RCA ad, showing father & son watching baseball on a 630TS:

http://antiqueradio.org/art/RCA630TSAdvertisement01.jpg

Phil

As SteveD said, very cool.

Me too! Very cool! I just don't get why anyone would laugh at doing this. Well, yes I do.....

We take so much for granted while actually standing on the edge of having to re-learn how to make fire with sticks.

Oops; I missed the Super Bowl this year. I was busy sharpening pencils, then I decided to do something more interesting like reading the phone book.

Charles

Just as a side note here, I was at the bowling alley for league that evening, and of course they had the HD feed of the super bowl on the plasma tv in the bar, I thought it looked like crap, but that was probably because of the downpour. It's just interesting that i'm sure the super bowl is a big driver of sales for new sets, and it was probably a big bummer to a lot of people that ran out and bought a brand new TV for the game and ended up with the sub-par picture.

There was an article in the paper just prior to the game regarding the increased sales of new sets because of super bowl "show-offs". One guy had just shelled out $10K to have a big, big screen on Sunday. I could never have a party, even if I wanted to...my newest set, a 1990 19" Sylvania, would have me laughed out of the county!

Glad I am not the only one out there that watched on a vintage set. Pretty cool!

Watching the SuperBowl on your vintage TV?
 

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture
but it is a B&W set.

That is really cool. WOW

60 years ago, we barely had running water inside a house to go to the bathroom but that doesn't mean I want to go back to that for poops and grins! lol.

I agree!! I've never heard of such a device. Can anyone elaborate?

Tubejunke,

This site may help:
TELEVISION: HOW COL-R-TEL TV COLOR CONVERTER WORKS
http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_color/colrtel_block.htm

-Steve D.

Confess! You're my wife, aren't you? :p: