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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
Um, YUP.
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This is the way these sets were when new? Holy hell, it's a wonder anyone that owned one ever bought another RCA!  |
My parents were poor, both emigrants from large families and both taken out of grade school to help their parents through the depression. So my farther managed to buy us a 17 inch black and white Travler set around 1956. I was 9 then and remember the endless problems we had with it. Put a bad taste in my mouth for reliability. As I grew up the Sony's appeared, first the 8 1/2 inch, then the tummy TV and so on. They were very reliable never broke down. When the first Trinitron's came along, snapped them right up. Like the other member said, never looked back, it was always going to be a Sony Trinitron until the flat screens came along.
The memory of that horrible Travler TV steered me away from American sets. I know that won't sit well with the members here, but I have no technical background to repair sets. I just wanted a television that would last and last and the Sony's never disappointed.
Having said that, I appreciated the romance of early color television and would love to find a RCA CT 101 and such other sets to add to my collection.