[dr.ido]

I guess this one falls under "sets you felt sorry for", but I think that thread was in the tube sections somewhere.

An older man dropped this one off the other day. It was probably up in use until fairly recently. I'd guess it's probably one owner and didn't get moved much until it's recent replacement. Even the doily shaped imprint in the dust on the top of the cabinet is undisturbed.

I was hesitant to take due to the usual space and back problems, but the nice condition of the cabinet, original remote and SCART input won me over.

This is an Australian made Philips from around 1985. Model 02KR786, KL9A chassis. With stereo sound, remote, and SCART/AV inputs its at the high end of this series. I think the only option not fitted is teletext.

Even the Nicad memory battery is still good. This memory stores not only the tuning presets, but settings for brightness and color. When the battery dies brightness/color reset to 0 when power is off and in some models (including this one) it can only be adjusted from the remote. Dead battery = no picture consigned a lot of these to the curb in the late 90s/early 00s.

Unfortunately the CRT is very soft, but I guess that's to be expected.

Maybe I'll stick it high up on the pallet racking (if I can get it up there) where I can't get close enough to it for the soft picture to irritate me.