Anyone like "kitchen TVs" and smaller sets of 1980s-00s?

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Your family must have been doing well back then...I grew up in the 90's too and we only had the 20" living room Zenith new...Our other sets predated my parrents knowing eachother. Our kitchen set was a 5" color Emerson AC/DC portable with AM/FM radio that (I'd like to say it was an '86 model)...Aside from the vertical hold being on edge for years and no one bothering to dig it out enough to adjust it it was a trouble free set...Up till my folks threw it out in a move...I was so bothered by them chucking a working TV that I later bought another I happened upon. Almost everything post 1975 is BPC junk in my book, but childhood memories are an exception.

Not really. My parents had an SR 2000 (Sears) 25" remote woodgrain console in the living room with a Goldstar VCR. That thing lasted all the way to around 2001 when it got replaced with a 32" Sanyo, which lasted until about 2014 and got replaced with a cheap Westinghouse LCD which got knocked over and replaced with an LG LED. I really liked the Sanyo and was sad it broke.

My parents also had a 13" color dial SR-2000 set in their room with rabbit ears. Don't remember it ever being used really. I think that one got sold and replaced with the 1996 13" RCA. When that stopped it got replaced with a 2008 Emerson 20" flat screen CRT.

My first bedroom TV was an 80s 13" Capehart (AOC) a neighbor was going to throw away. It had green LCD channel display and a glass cover over the screen. It was also really lightweight for some reason, but missing the remote and never could get one to work with it.

My parents got me a new Funai VCR so I would watch movies on it. Then another neighbor threw away a 1994 19" RCA so I drug it home as an upgrade. LOL Gray cabinet mono speaker and I think one of the first ones with closed captioning. I used to like playing with the closed captions on it. And I found a universal RCA remote that matched it well. (I was particular about remotes.)

It ended up having an issue with the picture jumping up and down so I'd smack the top of it to straighten it up. lol Finally the sound went out on it, and my parents got me a new 19" Panasonic for my birthday one year. I loved that set, but unfortunately it got hit by lightning summer of 2007, and replaced with a Sylvania (Funai) 20" which I still have. Not a bad set all in all.

I remember my grandparents had an older console. Then when they moved into a new house in 1994-95 they had a few Zeniths, which I think all almost caught on fire! Those got replaced by a Phillips Magnavox and a since several flat panels.

My other grandma had a 80s Sylvania projection which was pretty cool as a kid. That was probably the first set I ever saw with on screen display. I remember watching the Weather Channel on it in the early 90s and dancing to the jazz music.