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Wasn't it great when tv's were furniture instead of high tech plastic boxes?
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I also agree that things were better back then. I think the manufacturers' goal in developing tomorrow's tv's is for them to be like picture frames. The idea behind the high tech plastic boxes of recent years is that most of us are putting them on a shelf in an entertainment center. I seem to remember a set that NAP (Sylvania/Philco/Magnavox) offered in the early 80's that was supposed to be installed in the hollowed-out shell of an older tv (if I remember correctly what the salesman told my parents at the time). They didn't buy the "25-inch table-model" and opted instead for another Sylvania console to replace the '74 GE that had just cooked its flyback.
It's ironic that Sylvania tv sets have also become plastic boxes (considering that the name itself means "woods") I'm in the process of designing some "vintage replica" tv's with wooden cabinets and hope to market the first model by mid-2005. Stay tuned.