[vintagecollect]

One collector I know of restores sets and just leaves them for display. Such sets will survive if treated as museum pieces. A lot of space time and energy goes into restoring one of these. Are the newer generations going to value these complicated devices? Do younger people want to collect these when old TVs used mostly as a static display pieces to avoid wearing out CRTs?

There's a sharp drop off in TV collecting, Large screen CRT projectors, early remote sonic sets & early solid state color sets are nearly non existant and rarely saved from the 70s.

It's going to be a challenge for TVs to hold their value the next 20 years, most collectors work on sets themselves. Possible for 50s sets if people want to dedicate themselve to one set since getting only rarer. There's a hugh push for e-recycling everyone knows about, I'm sure plenty of TV test equipment will go this way soon.