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Originally Posted by VintageLove
I find that interesting what that salesman said about the 83's having a RED LED. Just looking at mine now, it says Manufactured October 1983 and it does have the green display, maybe the 84's had the RED LED, it would be interesting to know if they did.
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My understanding is that a red LED channel display indicates that the set is not cable ready, whereas a green one says it is. Perhaps they all went cable ready in '84.
A non-cable ready set with a pull-on/volume knob and a numeric keypad would have been kind of a pain to use with one of those old CATV converter boxes as the set could be powered on and off via the converter remote, but would default to channel 2 as the channel memory requires standby power. That is unless, the converter happens to output on channel 2. At least one of mine does.