Reactions to old TVs

[Captain Video]

I only saw roundies in person TWICE in my life: both ocasions were on the collection of a friend of mine. Roundies are the RAREST OF THE RAREST of vintage TVs here, since brazilian television began in 1950, so roundies were on their last moments of production. Luckily, he began collecting TVs sometime around 1985, when people were still throwing those to the dump. He has some 15 roundies, which, for Latin American standards, is an EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE amount. Probably the most rare of his roundies is the Philips ( picture below ). He is lucky enough to have TWO of those. This TV was made in Holland in 1949/1950, SPECIALLY for the brazilian market. Oddly enough, the controls are in Portuguese, but not on Brazilian Portuguese but in the Portuguese that is spoken on Portugal ( and television in Portugal only began in 1957 ). The guys at Eindhoven thougt that the language was just exactly the same... Anyway, the first time I visited his collection ( in 1998, and I NEVER forget that day, it was also the same day in which I met and took pictures and autographs with Mister David Prowse, a.k.a Lord Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy ), it was the most WILD experience in my life, a true TIME MACHINE - he put a "Three Stooges" episode to play in that Philips roundie ( the one episode in which they wreck a TV set they had to install to a friend ); oh man, I REALLY felt like it was 1950 again!

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

he put a "Three Stooges" episode to play in that Philips roundie ( the one episode in which they wreck a TV set they had to install to a friend )

That Three Stooges film is called "Goof on the Roof", with Shemp, Larry, and Moe. I wish it was on one of the DVD releases, but it is not yet, in the USA at least.

[truetone36]

I get positive reactions from most of my family as they're used to them after 34 years of seeing them come and go(my brother got me started collecting t.v.s and radios when I was 4!). My wife, on the other hand was another story. She was of the opinion that with t.v.s and audio gear new was better and old stuff was all junk. After 10 years, I've managed to change her thinking somewhat on this. After seeing the picture quality on my CTC-15 and
the Zenith Space Command 600 I have, as well as hearing my console radios,
she now knows that the old stuff is of much better quality. But you should've seen her face when I first brought the RCA home!


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[dtuomi]

Almost universally the reaction I've gotten is "Why do you keep around all this junk?"

Its kind of irritating.

David