When I was little. Big wood floor cabinet with built in speakers, turntable, tape and 8-track deck. The whole nine. It was awesome actually. Looked really nice. Miss that kind of stuff.
I just got a new TV and realistically expect it to only last a few years. My last one lasted 13 years and probably could be repaired if that knowledge still existed.
I do like the bigger screen. But everything now is disposable.
My 27" Zenith TV is at least 35 years old. I've never needed service and it has never given me a moment's trouble. I doubt anything you buy today will last half that long.
It was the size of a couch and solid wood. I can remember when my father got rid of it. It took him and two other people to get it out and there was lots of yelling.
Our first color TV was a big wooden box, heavy heavy oak, with a 19" TV and a big side panel of controls. It wasn't called portable or a console, it was called a "table model." My husband was so thrilled with it that he subscribed to this new thing called "cable television" where you didn't have to watch commercials because you were compensating the companies directly. How wonderful!!!! What the heck happened?
Yes long ago twas a Sony rear projection, big, heavy raise up the table top and it was a curved screen TV. Four strong guys to move it. ...gave it away too much space it took up.
No. At first I couldn't even understand this question. I thought you were just being silly lol until my hubby who's older than me said his family's TV was in a giant wood frame when he was a really little kid.
This post was edited by Livvie at December 17, 2016 1:32 AM MST
Yup. Back in the day, they were all like that. Ours was an RCA - box console with a small screen and giant tubes in the back that needed replacing every now and then. Back then, there was no 24 hours of programming. At midnight, they would play the Star Spangled Banner and the screen would go to test pattern.
This post was edited by SpunkySenior at December 27, 2017 3:08 AM MST
Our family didn't have a television until, I think, the mid-70s. That probably had a plywood case, as did some of the older radios around the house.
One of our main rooms had a large chimney-breast that created a pair of alcoves against the outer wall, and Dad built a hi-fi system into one of these. The case was effectively two stout shelves, the lower acting as the floor of a cabinet housing the tuner and amplifier, with a cupboard each side for LPs and other related items. The upper shelf, the top of the cabinet, carried the record-player itself. He also owned a reel-to-reel tape-recorder driven by the record-player spindle - its record/playback lead plugged into a socket on the separate amplifier.
In those days, amateur electronics was a popular hobby, with magazines publishing project designs, and component-stockists, easy to find. By "electronics" I mean building, and for some enthusiasts, designing too, circuits from discrete components; not buying ready-made units and just plugging them together.
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