80's Sharp Linytron Score

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by jstout66

Picked up this set for free today. Not sure of the model # as the back tag is missing. I would guess it to be mid 80's vintage. Pretty basic set with no OSD, and a pretty simple remote ( which doesn't even have mute) The power button on the remote is combined with a 3 tier volume level. Great pix on it tho! Not what I normally "collect", but it was going to get pitched, soooo....

It's interesting to me that your TV's remote does not have the mute function. Most TVs with ultrasonic remotes did have the mute feature, either as a fourth position of the volume stepper relay (mute, low, medium, high volume), or as a completely separate button on the hand unit. This interests me because the first TV remote control by Zenith, the ill-fated and short-lived "Flash-Matic" of the mid-1950s, did have a photocell that activated the mute function when the ray-gun style controller was pointed at it. Why Sharp decided not to include sound muting on some of its Linytron TVs, however, is a mystery to me. Linytron (which I think stands for in-line color CRT) sounds like it must have been one of Sharp's premium sets of the '80s, so it should have had all the bells and whistles, including mute and OSD.