I dream of TVs

[Aussie Bloke]

Okay. Here's a rough example of the concave colour TV I dreamt about though the curves were more rounder and the edges of the CRT were sharper. The TV didn't look like this set but something similar and a bit smaller.

I bet you's are gonna think I must of been sniffing the turps or the petrol at the local servos to have a dream like this hehehe.

Cheers
Troy

[Carmine]

I bet you's are gonna think I must of been sniffing the turps or the petrol at the local servos to have a dream like this

Actually, I'm guessing most of us won't know what the hell you're talking about! Just kidding, I love downunder slang. (Actually, I'd really want to see Australia some day... Looks beautiful, and always makes me think of what the US would be like if the British had won. One of the few countries outside of North America with cool cars too... Pick me up a Valiant Charger if you see one cheap Aussie Bloke!)

Carmine <<< Parents have an Aussie Sheppard, I might get an Australian Cattledog. Also likes Outback Steakhouse.

I'm glad to know (or perhaps scared) that so many others have had TV dreams! I guess the thing that stood out most to me was the idea of manufactuers boasting about how "few" tubes their hybrid sets had. Must have been thinking about that before falling asleep. If only it worked that way for the women I enjoy looking at!

Also glad to hear SOMEBODY besides me remembers that scene in Nightmare on Elmstreet 3-D with the smashed-up Zenith that comes back to life, then pours blood! I saw that around age 21, and was on a first date... I actually said (outloud) "Cool! I have one just like that!" I really did. It was the model of Zenith roundie that had diagonal VHF/UHF controls. I eventually had to toss that one because of space concerns. IF ONLY THIS GROUP EXISTED BACK THEN!!!

At my grandfathers, there is a full size Olypmic HiFi console stereo from around 1960 or so. Well in my dream, the front of it opened up to reveal an Olympic roundie color TV. And we never even knew this thing had a TV in it to begin with for the past 40 some years. So I get it up and playing, playing quite well, and then I look down inside the TV, and all the tube sockets burst into flames! Then I woke up... That was bizarre

Now, Olympic made mainly HiFi consoles and a few B&W sets, but not color TVs, right?

[bgadow]

I once happened across a dump pile way back in the woods that had been used in the 70s by a tv repairman. There were the remains of a couple roundies back there, at least (IIRC) and one of them was an Olympic. I remember reading a Consumer Reports test of color tvs, late 60s, and they flunked the Olympic because it gave off excessive radiation.

I one time remember dreaming of seeing a diamond shaped TV. At first I thought it was a mirror until the screen went blank and started showing a tv show.

Come to find out, I was actually in that weird half-asleep half-awake state and I was seeing my real TV only from about a 45 degree angle.

[bgadow]

Dream from last week: I'm in some sort of warehouse, I think it was part of a museum, and my father & my wife are there, among others. There are all these old console radios & tvs. I keep finding one after another, but they have all been gutted. Finally I find one in a pile of stuff, its an upright radio-style console, sort of a combination of some prewar RCA's and of a Stromberg Carlson radio I have. Like the S-C it has a pair of doors at the top. In the dream it was a Philco and it was prewar. There was a 3" screen above the doors at the top, and when you opened the doors there was a 10" screen behind them. There was a note on the set saying it worked, and I may have even had it working. I was scared of it because I had heard that the hv systems on prewar sets were particularly dangerous and I could tell by looking at the chassis that it was a different animal. Someone in charge told me it was for sale for, I think, $15, and I was very, very concerned about making this purchase and getting that set home before a)they scrapped it or b)they decided not to sell it.

[Sandy G]

Usually when I dream & can remember it, I'm buck-ass nekkid in front of a whole bunch of people that I shouldn't be buck-ass nekkid in front of, or have something chasing me who looks like a Goon off one of the old "Popeye" cartoons.Remember "Goon Island" ?<grin> -Sandy G.

Here's one from last night:

I dreamed I found a Zenith Chromacolor TV, only when I took it apart to fix it. It fell to pieces.

The next minute my mom had come home and she brought in an RCA CTC48 (like the one Captainmoody found), except that it had digital tuning LOL. It had the toggle on/off switch and the knobs but instead of channel knobs, it had a keypad and a 2 digit LED display like the later RCA models.

[maxm]

When I was little, I still remember having a dream about my grandma's old RCA late 60s color console in the den that didn't work. In the dream, I remember that it was working with a perfect picture, and it was tuned to a PBS news show, that used to be on. I remember trying to push the TV into the kitchen, to show my Mom and Grandma that it was really working, and they should watch it, but nobody listened to me, or looked at the TV.
Sadly, that TV was thrown out when she moved , but I have a picture of it somewhere.

[maxm]

Here's one from last night...

I was in our basement, looking at a TV that had been down there for a while, I don't know where it came from.
It was a mid 50s DuMont wood table top set with a rectangular tube.
I tried to turn it on, and it came on with a perfect color picture, and I was really suprised that it was color. Then I realized that it had buttons for the controls, like on a new TV, but inside, it was all tube...
Then I woke up...............

[andy]

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[colortrakker]

This one's REALLY bizarre:

I was browsing some kind of antiquey/consigny type store and there was an RCA set in a black cabinet. There were doors over the screen. There were three clear light bulbs sticking up from the tan metal back - a red one, a blue one, and a green one - supposedly to tell you it was a color set. Must've been a one-off demo model. I fully expected a roundie, but the tube behind the doors turned out to be a 23" Zenith inline from the '70s. Appeared to have an OK picture.

Sounds like I'm overdue for some medicine. Or extra sleep. Or something.

[Sandy G]

The TV I have dreams about ? That 40" Sony XBR-Yeah, baby !! That one or a CT-100...I really, really, REALLY wanna have a working 1950's color set someday... Yeah, I know.....I'm a SICK INDIVIDUAL....-Sandy G.

[bgadow]

Had another dream so I dredged this thread back up:
I meet Dick Cavett (!) and he has the same Zenith as Krimney; he bought it new. We have a great conversation, the tv works great. Just as I used to when I was a kid, I turn down the sound, stick my ear up to the side of the cabinet & listen to the hum of the chassis. I noted that it didn't hum very loud, at least not compared to our old GE KE chassis console.

(dream was courtesy of eating one sleeve of Chip's Ahoy before going to bed. Your results may vary!)

(Dick Cavett appeared courtesy of my quest to find copies of his 80s radio program, "the Comedy Show", and the fact that I lost out on a pile of them on ebay last week.)

[asynchronousman]

I don't recall TV dreams. I had a recurring dream with a dire ending until I somehow resolved it, I rode in a city bus in the early 70s with my aunt and mother and it got stopped by the police and they were arrested--they I flew over town and gas was 38.9, I was sitting in my room in my underwear then suddenly riding a bike past an old school in the dark...no TVs.

I wasn't asleep and I was singing "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy in the back of a 1974 AMC Matador (AM only). Wonder what my folks were thinking at the time...

I watched KTRV 12 go on the air in my bedroom with a small b/w portable in the 1981 when just turning the dial. That was not something I normally do, go up to 12 and 13 knowing full well there wasn't one there. 9 was the last assignment on the dial. That was a dream come true in the daze when signals didn't pop up like spyware...