I bought my new TV, 50" LED Panasonic from Best Buy, they hauled off my old Hitachi 51" projection set. Sure miss the rich sound the dinosaur produced.
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Those were the days...
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Yeah...decent built in sound is a thing of the past with the flat screens. My last Hitachi LCD-RPTV had an awesome built-in system. Nowadays, having a least a soundbar w/ sub is a must to get any sound at all.
I had one of the last 40" Sony WEGAs. We "donated" it to my sister-in-law. Some how we managed to get it in her Ford Expedition with only 3 grown men, although we were all dizzy afterwards. It had a wonderful HD picture, back before everyone started bit-starving and down-rezing everything.
Yes of course there was. I had no wires attached to me. It was my job to change the channel when my dad or mom chose it.
I had one of those hitachi sets. When it died the son in law and I had to cartwheel it across the deck into the back of his truck.
I fondly remember assembling a couple of their computers. And later souping them up a bit.
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I still have an old Magnavox 34 inch 16X9 CRT TV on the back porch - weighs about 165lb but it has a great picture, but alas no ATSC tuner, just component inputs on rear.
Our first color TV was an old round tube RCA I begged my dad to buy used from the TV store we frequented. After about 5 years or so he replaced it with a 21 inch rectangular CRT color TV.
The first TV I remember was an old Sylvania B&W console TV in our den that had a record player and a radio in a drawer below the TV.
I remember replacing the B&W picture tube in my grandmother's Philips TV back when i was in high school.
Our first color TV was an old round tube RCA I begged my dad to buy used from the TV store we frequented. After about 5 years or so he replaced it with a 21 inch rectangular CRT color TV.
The first TV I remember was an old Sylvania B&W console TV in our den that had a record player and a radio in a drawer below the TV.
I remember replacing the B&W picture tube in my grandmother's Philips TV back when i was in high school.
I still have a CRT 30" Toshiba wide screen 480p I have it for a backup if my Toshiba LCD ever dies. It weighs over 100 pounds, but it sure has a great SD picture. One of the best I have ever seen. It even has has the analog/digital tuners.
I built a 26" Color Heathkit TV as part of a correspondence school. One way to cash in on the GI Bill.
Growing up in the 60's near Philly a few things I remember-My Dad was definitely not an early adopter but he did buy a UHF box for the tv when 17,29 and 48 went on air.Flyers ,Sixers and BB from the Palestra-all for free!-Going to my Grandfather's house to watch the first Superbowl(he had enough money for a color TV )-when we moved from King of Prussia to Wynnewood in 68 and the older kids had left the nest my dad got the cheapest 19 inch color TV he could find.I think it was 300 bucks at Silo's.Definitely metal cabinet and battleship grey.Mom was not impressed.Lastly -being shocked when I realised the Wizard of Oz went from black and white to color depending if Dorothy was in Kansas or not.It used to play on TV annually and I am NOT old enough to have seen it in the theatre.
When I was a preteen in Missouri we only had one color tv in the house. My Dad controlled it and we were forced to watch sports, war movies and westerns. Of course today I hate all three genres. My Dad would never let us watch all the cool sci fi shows and Shock theaters on Saturday nights on channel 30 UHF. My Aunt Jean who lived in town came to our house and gave me her old black and white Phillips tv .It was only 13 inches but I loved it! I could finally watch what I wanted to watch when I wanted to watch it. We would curl up in the basement and watch old B movies and Horror and the reruns of Star Trek , Lost in Space etc. My mother would let us have sweets like ding dongs , twinkies , M & Ms and sugary soda, on weekends so my little sister and brother and I would be bouncing off the walls on weekends. Some of my favorite times came when I was watching that little black and white tv. Got my first color tv at Safeway when I started working at age 16 back in 78.
When I was a kid... I remember I was the Remote Control... and often at times was also used as an antenna booster... (Hold this, yeah that better!) 
You people are old.
And I remember the same things.
And I remember the same things.
i was the remote too and also dad's bartender, the ole while your up get me another beer. But at least he let me see the night my world changed The Beatles on Ed Sullivan.When I was a kid... I remember I was the Remote Control... and often at times was also used as an antenna booster... (Hold this, yeah that better!)
