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Originally Posted by cwmoser
I was thinking about the number of playable B&W televisions and wondered it the number of actually playable sets are increasing. Certainly when color TVs became reasonably priced, consumers started switching to them.
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One angle I see in your question is the number of B&W sets that got put in storage (like in the back room where it got rarely used) before the flyback, power transformer, CRT or other hard to find part failed. Because a new color TV displaced it out of regular use. And thus would need only the wax and electrolytic caps to be replaced to restore it. A few years ago a neighbor tossed an RCA B&W from the late 50s, and it still worked (albeit with a weak CRT) even before I did a recap. These sets would surface pretty much only at estate sales, as the owner didn't want to toss it before they checked out.