A collection of beautiful TV sets!!!

[Dude111]

www.wtv-zone.com/Stevetek

Wow quite nice

 

[Rakehellion]

Imagine the heat that thing puts off.

 

[Markbnj]

Now that is geeking out old school.

 

[Squeetard]

$1,000 new. A new chevy Bel air was $1,800 in 1954.

 

[AdamK47]

It's the Radiation King.

 

[CPA]

I love the Barker Bros. add that mentions their "Tea Room". Man, times have changed.

 

[jlee]

$1,000 new. A new chevy Bel air was $1,800 in 1954.

$8,871.30 in today's dollars.

Man, cars have got expensive! $1800 then is ~$16k now.

 

[mmntech]

I'd love to own one of those vintage TVs but they're pretty hard to find. A lot of those old sets weren't very reliable. Tubes would burn out frequently, which is why TV repair was such a lucrative business at the time. Getting replacement tubes today can be a big challenge. Old radio sets are a lot more common. Have a pre-war tabletop unit in my office that still works with mostly original tubes.

Love that giant beast of a camera and the massive pedestal for it at the bottom. Modern studio cameras are basically ENG camcorders modified with triax our fibre optic outputs. They still weigh enough though.

 

[pontifex]

all i get is a blank page?

 

[darkewaffle]

That guy

and this guy

Should get together and do a thing

 

[steppinthrax]

I remember I was watching a video on youtube on how Zenith made their TVs. It was going through the whole process from planning to manufacturing and testing. It was pretty ridiculous how many steps they went through to test and certify their TVs. You could have sworn they were making nuclear pacemaker batteries or something crazy like that. It's just a TV, their quality control was crazy!!!

 

[jlee]

That guy

and this guy

Should get together and do a thing

Uploaded on Oct 13, 2010
If you likes my collection show me you intresting hobby, own videos and show in the hole world when factory models is stupid drop off carbitch when maschine still running life.

dafuq?

 

[John Connor]

www.wtv-zone.com/Stevetek

Wow quite nice

http://hmpg.net/

 

[Ichinisan]

marked

 

[positivedoppler]

http://hmpg.net/

lmao, bookmarked!

But seriously back to the TV. I can imagine as a kid there must be something magical about looking into those tiny windows with an entire world inside.

 

[futurefields]

i would have gotten an infraction for making this thread, no joke

 

[Dude111]

Why would they give ya an infraction bud?? (Would you say something mean about the guy on the page??) Im curious.....

 

[styrafoam]

That guy

and this guy

Should get together and do a thing

GAH stole my idea. Pillips bery bad, bery bad makanicks.

 

[us3rnotfound]

GAH stole my idea. Pillips bery bad, bery bad makanicks.

Heefee!

 

[Ichinisan]

That guy

and this guy

Should get together and do a thing

I'm not even halfway through the video, but that's awesome! I love how the guy pronounces "Hi-Fi" as "hee-fee." :awe: Then, at 2m30s, he says something "high-feedle-tee-good" (high fidelity).

[edit]
2m30s - "high feedle-tee"
3m59s - "high fee-leddie-tee"
4m10s - "high feedle-e-tuh"