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Originally Posted by veg-o-matic
Don't you love those dollar DVDs? Most of the good old shows are available, though I've only seen two volumes of The Dick Van Dyke show.
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Where are these $1 DVDs available? There is a Dollar General store in my hometown; I wonder if that's where they are. I have a subscription to Netflix, but if I can get classic TV shows on DVD for a buck I'll jump at the chance.
BTW, the picture on classicradios's Zenith Great Circle console (aka Porthole) is great--I don't care if it is from DVD! I don't know what vintage that set is (late '40s or '50s), but no matter. It's a Zenith, and all Zeniths made during the pre-GS era (late '40s to late '80s) were good--excellent, even. I once had a Zenith 23" console which I rescued from a trash pile, minus the tubes. Retubed the whole set (except the 1J3 HV rectifier and the CRT, which were still in place) and was rewarded with an excellent picture on Cleveland's three VHF network stations at that time. We moved three years later, so I had to get rid of that set. Nearly broke my heart to do it, especially after all the work I put into getting it going again. However, in 1977 I found another Zenith SC300 portable on the curb some distance up the street from my home. It worked well for a year, then the horizontal output tube went gassy, throwing the keyed AGC system out of gear (I'll say--the picture on all three VHF stations was so weak and washed out I couldn't watch it). Couldn't find another HO tube (one of those oddball novar tubes with a non-standard filament voltage) locally or anywhere near where I lived at the time, so the set was relegated to my basement and eventually put out for the trash. The next day I bought a new Zenith 12" solid-state b&w portable, which lasted 22 years (and was still working amazingly well when I got rid of it a year after moving to my apartment--I already had two color TVs, one of which is a Zenith which still works, and well, after almost ten years, so I had no use for the small portable any longer). Oh, I suppose I could have found someone who could have used the set (even though the UHF selector was jammed on one channel), but I had too much else going at the time.