Nice Westinghouse console at Seattle Goodwill

[Electronic M]

I dislike plasma sets because most do the following....Stretch the picture (most that do are not mine and I can't adjust the menus to not do that which bugs the heck outa me) display a lousy picture on analog content (many hotels have FPs playing solely analog cable which highlights how lousy they are on analog), pixelaton from bad signal and digital motion artifacts etc form compression that all digital TV signals have (this kills the realism and in some cases the continuity of a show I'm watching and makes me think that the program is computer generated or that I've been sucked into "The Matrix" etc). the color, contrast, focus and convergence of FPs don't feel warm and natrual to me, and those 3D sets look just god awefull without glasses on (never watched one with the glasses so can't comment).

Anything that ain't CRT just don't feel natural to me (and even CRT sets that are displaying bad digital signals seem somewhat synthetic/unreal).

I'm not trying to insult your likeing of FPs or DTV or anything, I just can't see much good in the present state of the art when compared to the bad in it.

If it were up to me all non-internet video would be analog and all sets would still be CRT. I'm a college student and I just don't get my generations obsession with crappy digital convenences. My laptop is new and solid state, but some days I can warm up 4 or more vacuum tube TV sets in sequence between turning on my laptop and it booting up and preforming properly....That just don't meet my expectations of a solid state device at all.

I've been told that my Silvertone is a CTC-15 clone. I found a volume knob for it reciently that matches the set and has a brushed steel metal faceplate. I'll be carefull about the sockets. I recall hearing your story about the socket problem before and will take heed, though if the board breaks I won't trash it...I'll either fix the traces and mount a new socket or have a new circuit board made and transfer the critiacal parts over. My boards seem (from the recaping and tube testing I did) to be fairly sturdy, though half the under side of the video board looks real wierd.