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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
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If that set were just three decades older (1957), it certainly would be an antique. Two decades older (1967) would peg it as vintage.
However, you are correct -- anyone in the age group you mention (or even younger) probably would think a TV made in the late 1980s was an antique. Nineteen eighty-seven was only 24 years ago, so the Sylvania TV under discussion here has a few more years to go before it reaches vintage age, let alone antique.
BTW, It's a shame that so many of these '80s TVs are winding up on curbs (in areas where TV recycling is not yet available), as many such sets still have lots of life left in them, or have at best minor problems. I've seen eBay listings for radios/TVs that had nothing more serious wrong with them than missing or defective/dangerous power cords or other small problems; the sellers, more often than not, list these as "parts only" sets, advising potential buyers not to plug them into line voltage under any circumstances, when all the set needs is a new cord or new tubes. Of course, as we VK folks know and respect, these older sets should not be powered up until they are recapped (at very least, the filters in the power supply should be changed). However, many if not most eBay sellers do not realize this, and fail to mention in the item listing that major work needs to be done on these sets before the new owner even thinks of plugging it in and turning it on. I'm sure more than one person (not associated with VK) has found this out the hard way.
