1970s Advent Videobeam TV for free near me

[zeno]

The price is right !
It was a milestone TV being the first successful projo that sold well.
They either have a Sylvania or Electrohome chassis. Both
are easy to repair & most parts are common.
BUT I can almost guarantee one if not all 3 tubes is weak or bad (& NLA).
They were the weak point of all projos. Also even if perfect you need the
shades pulled & all lights of to get a decent picture.


73 Zeno
LFOD !

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by zeno

The price is right !
It was a milestone TV being the first successful projo that sold well.
They either have a Sylvania or Electrohome chassis. Both
are easy to repair & most parts are common.
BUT I can almost guarantee one if not all 3 tubes is weak or bad (& NLA).
They were the weak point of all projos. Also even if perfect you need the
shades pulled & all lights of to get a decent picture.


73 Zeno
LFOD !

More like the first color/modern projection set to sell well.

Just after WWII and into the early 50's RCA, Philco and Norelco each had their own projection system and sold a variety of models for several years (21"-30" direct view sets kinda stole their market share)....the early monochrome projection sets sold well enough that a number of other companies bought CRTs and optics from the OEMs to sell paired up with their chassis.

Advent wasn't the first success so much as as they were the Nintendo NES (which brought the game console market back from the dead after Atari, or more accurately their lack of control of 3rd party game software, crashed the market their 2600 had created) of their technology.

[maxhifi]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

More like the first color/modern projection set to sell well.

Just after WWII and into the early 50's RCA, Philco and Norelco each had their own projection system and sold a variety of models for several years (.

I wonder what those installations actually looked like, and how many were actually in people's houses. Did any of them project onto a screen located some distance away? How big were the pictures? I've never seen a single photo of a 50s projector in a domestic setting.

The thing which really worked well for the VideoBeam, was it came into existence at roughly the same time as the VCR - making a video based home movie theater possible.