Hey, if the bottom one works too, why waste it? Sure, it only gets channels 2-13 (and maybe a few PBS channels), but you can watch 2 shows at once, with the sound turned down on the sports channels (because it’s obvious what’s happening there).
My wife bought a 30+" tube TV for our upstairs den. With the help of my daughter and her friends we got it up there. When I sell this house that TV goes with it whether it works or not. Maybe the Piano is heavier but that is the only thing up there that is.
My old tube TV had a fuzzy picture, the word scroll along the bottom sunk out of sight and the edges were chopped off by the new format. It’s heavy and will cost me $$ at the landfill (or recycling) . It sits, collecting dust behind the new hi def flat screen.
We used to have a “wedding cake” in the living room. The bottom was an ancient set that did not work at all, but it made a nice stand for the smaller one we bought to replace it.
I had saved up a small sum for a nice new TV 21 years ago… I went out and paid cash for a Sony 35" Trinitron, purchased from a co-worker’s husband’s Sony store (do they still have Sony stores?)… I even splurged and got the matching Sony TV stand to go with it.
Last I heard of that TV, my brother (who got it after I moved up to a 37" LCD TV a dozen years ago) had hauled it to the dump… it had died and was becoming obsolete anyway. Shame… :-\
I had a 35" Sony for many years. That thing took an appliance dolly and everything a buddy and I had to get it up the stairs and into the entertainment center. It went out about 3 years after flat screens came out. It was going to cost as much to fix it as to buy a 40" flat screen. It liked to kill us to get that Sony out to the curb. Today, that flat screen is in the BR and a newer 48" in the LR. Moved them myself. Then there was the old Montgomery Ward Console TV/Stereo my folks had, but that’s another story. That thing was a monster to move.
Been there, done that. The picture tube went bad on my Zenith floor set back in ‘96 and even though my local repairman had one in stock he wouldn’t bother with it. He said that the tuner would likely go next and he did not have any of those in stock. I ended up buying a new Zenith that is just a big black plastic case with a screen. Compared to the old one it was kind of ugly and I liked the wood case of the old one. It was like a piece of furniture. The new one sat atop the old one for a year until I moved here. When moving day came along I had to deposit the old one outside for the trashmen since there was no room for it here. I’m still using the ugly one with a converter. It gets about two channel “groups” on decent weather days. Windy days, forget it. The more I’m exposed to digital anything, the less I like the concept.
Templo S.U.D. about 5 years ago
the “stand” sure was classic
Farside99 about 5 years ago
Hey, if the bottom one works too, why waste it? Sure, it only gets channels 2-13 (and maybe a few PBS channels), but you can watch 2 shows at once, with the sound turned down on the sports channels (because it’s obvious what’s happening there).
Watcher about 5 years ago
One for the wife, one for the husband.
Breadboard about 5 years ago
Hey it works and in 25 years you have an antique ;-)
tkcoker about 5 years ago
My wife bought a 30+" tube TV for our upstairs den. With the help of my daughter and her friends we got it up there. When I sell this house that TV goes with it whether it works or not. Maybe the Piano is heavier but that is the only thing up there that is.
Oge about 5 years ago
My old tube TV had a fuzzy picture, the word scroll along the bottom sunk out of sight and the edges were chopped off by the new format. It’s heavy and will cost me $$ at the landfill (or recycling) . It sits, collecting dust behind the new hi def flat screen.
jbrobo Premium Member about 5 years ago
You mean you don’t have to take the tubes down to the tube tester at the drug store?
Dani Rice about 5 years ago
We used to have a “wedding cake” in the living room. The bottom was an ancient set that did not work at all, but it made a nice stand for the smaller one we bought to replace it.
David Rickard Premium Member about 5 years ago
If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 5 years ago
Some furniture is worth saving just for the memories.
sheilag about 5 years ago
I had saved up a small sum for a nice new TV 21 years ago… I went out and paid cash for a Sony 35" Trinitron, purchased from a co-worker’s husband’s Sony store (do they still have Sony stores?)… I even splurged and got the matching Sony TV stand to go with it.
Last I heard of that TV, my brother (who got it after I moved up to a 37" LCD TV a dozen years ago) had hauled it to the dump… it had died and was becoming obsolete anyway. Shame… :-\
Bruce1253 about 5 years ago
Pluggers use the old satellite dish to anchor one end of the clothes line, the other end is tied to the pickup on blocks.
bobpickett1 about 5 years ago
Amen
BearHamilton about 5 years ago
I had a 35" Sony for many years. That thing took an appliance dolly and everything a buddy and I had to get it up the stairs and into the entertainment center. It went out about 3 years after flat screens came out. It was going to cost as much to fix it as to buy a 40" flat screen. It liked to kill us to get that Sony out to the curb. Today, that flat screen is in the BR and a newer 48" in the LR. Moved them myself. Then there was the old Montgomery Ward Console TV/Stereo my folks had, but that’s another story. That thing was a monster to move.
wiatr about 5 years ago
Been there, done that. The picture tube went bad on my Zenith floor set back in ‘96 and even though my local repairman had one in stock he wouldn’t bother with it. He said that the tuner would likely go next and he did not have any of those in stock. I ended up buying a new Zenith that is just a big black plastic case with a screen. Compared to the old one it was kind of ugly and I liked the wood case of the old one. It was like a piece of furniture. The new one sat atop the old one for a year until I moved here. When moving day came along I had to deposit the old one outside for the trashmen since there was no room for it here. I’m still using the ugly one with a converter. It gets about two channel “groups” on decent weather days. Windy days, forget it. The more I’m exposed to digital anything, the less I like the concept.