Oddball 13" Zenith and other '80's TV's

[radiotvnut]

A while back, my friend who still has a little luck with selling old TV's, said that someone asked him if he had a knob tuned TV. They went on to say that some elderly member of their family was used to that type of TV and would be confused by a remote. I told my friend that I could fix them up with such a TV; but, they would likely be bringing it back once they found out that it wouldn't receive anything without some sort of box that is operated by remote control.

Around here, if you're on cable or satellite, you must have a box regardless of how new or old your TV is (the only possible exception are newer TV with cablecard provisions.

The Zenith TV with "omni electronic tuning" uses the same variable knob for VHF and UHF, with a rocker switch to select between VHF and UHF. In the old days, it would probably tune some of the cable midband channels between VHF channels 6-7.

[sampson159]

got a 27 inch system 3 with a text writer last week from captain moody.it got damaged in transit,so did my remote magnavox tube console.crt busted.the zenith had a break in the board.got it going but the picture was a mess.thank got dwight wrote all the the settings down on the manual.also got an extra glass for it.turned out very good.as for the magnavox,anyone have a 23v crt?anyway,those zenits are nice.the one with the roller tuner is a keeper.i had several and they were fine,fine sets.