[Dennman6]

[QUOTE=Jeffhs;2984396] "I am 54 years old and currently have two CRT televisions in my apartment, a ten-year-old RCA CTC185 in the living room and a 15-year-old Zenith Sentry 2 in the bedroom. I intend to keep both these sets as long as they work as well as they do...the machines may well be obsolete from a technology standpoint, but they still have uses today. As long as people still have tapes they can watch on them (and have little or no interest in recording off the air), as I do, these machines will still be available for some time on the used market, and as one half of combination VHS/DVD players...I don't want a flat panel TV right now. Many if not most of the off-brand sets (from what I have heard and read) are too unreliable. They are junk after two years, when the video ICs molded into the cable linking the panel to the chassis fail, unless you spring for a premium brand such as Panasonic's Viera line..."

I am 48 years old, & I love using my computers, CD recorders, & other digital equipment to enhance my analog habit & use the stuff in conjunction with my collection of records, vintage phonographs, radios, reel-to-reels, etc. My TVs are all CRT sets in the 25-27" screen size. I have 27" Zenith, Sharp, GE(CTC-177) sets from 1995-all work great. I also have two 25" Sanyo sets, 1994 & 1996-again, working great. The Sanyo's seem to have especially beautiful & luscious film-like color rendition(who made their CRTs?). When I do get a flat panel, it will be as large as possible in the plasma/LCD type-60"! And it will be a premium brand too-I won't fool around with junkers. Too bad Pioneer Kuras are no longer available.

I totally agree with Jeffhs & will never give up the good, old, useful equipment so long as it performs well & is repairable. I routinely listen to selected 78s from my collection on my 1921 Victrola X(in oak) & my 1926 Victrola Credenza. In fact, I am gearing up to tearing down these spring motors & doing a complete cleaning & regreasing to get many more decades use out of them. Nothing wrong at all with combining the best elements of "modern" & vintage! Hail Mechanica!

Dennis Forkel