Back in the 80's I replaced tons of those IHVT's. RCA provided them at no charge. There was a guy who helped give me my start in the TV business, named Joe Barondeau. Joe sold me ALL of his equipment and SAMS and trusted me for the money. He told me to just give him some cash whenever I had some extra, whenever. So I was paying it off little by little. One day his son's CTC-101 developed a bad IHVT. I got a freebie from RCA and did the job for Joe for free. Joe asked me where the tally slip was for what I owed him. I showed it to him and he marked it "Paid In Full". Nice guy. He passed away around 10 years ago. By the way, Bryan, I noticed your usage of the term "good and faithful servant" referring to your old TV. I know where that phrase comes from and I have a lot of respect for people who use that source and it shows when they use phrases from that book. God Bless you!!
It is so difficult these days to find a church that is actually worshipping Christ and their own navels. The churchians are everywhere, they are wolves in sheep's clothing!
Thank you for sharing. You're right, family feud used to be a great game show. It's getting worst since they revised it on game night on ABC. This country is going down hill fast. One more thing to add. I know this sounds silly but it actually break my heart a little when I throw something away that I've been using for years. Anyway, thanks again for your videos. I learn so much from you.
It’s gotten really bad since Steve Harvey took over. I’m not racially biased, because I think Wayne Brady does a great job on “Let’s Make a Deal!”. Harvey is just too a bit too raunchy.
8:45 I've got a CTC-136 from 1988; it was one of the early stereo sets with the speakers on either side of the screen. It burnt up one night and filled the house with smoke; the horizontal output transistor was gone; most of the smoke came from a fusistor in the power supply, but the flyback was OK. After dicking with it for a few days (I had no schematics), I narrowed it down to a shorted capacitor in the horizontal output circuit, a blue one that was special in some way (it would have been expensive), which I replaced with 4 50cent ceramic capacitors. I wondered if it would work as well with cheaper parts, but it's been flawless for 14 years now.
I picked up a small flatscreen at the Salvation Army for less than 20 bucks. Works great... I originally went in looking for a cheap monitor to use on a computer, but the tv was only 5 bucks more than the monitors, and had HDMI, composite, component, and VGA.
I have a 22" Magnavox flat screen TV that I got brand new some 15 years ago and it's still working fine. It has all those inputs and I use it to test computers because unlike my new TV or PC monitors, this older one has the VGA port along with an HDMI port and it's a TV set as well
It's hard to believe there was a cheaper knob version of this TV because it's hard to imagine the tuner would be cheaper to make than this electronic tuner. Within a few years of this TV, that entire board was shrunk down to a single chip on the main board. In fact, it looks a bit primitive for 1989.
It is fairly primitive for 1989. It’s one of the last pre-Thomson RCA sets. They probably had a lot of old parts lying around, and used them. They needed to save money anywhere they could.
I have an RCA cheap plastic crap TV from the 90s that I bought new. Set probably has about 200 hours on it at most. I use it to play old Atari games. Has a great picture. I really hope it doesn't develop problems any time soon. I want to get one of those early ATSC prison TVs. They had digital tuners, but used a CRT screen. All of them are clear plastic (prison requirement) and unfortunately, no inputs other than antenna so you can't use them for video games. Still, a high def CRT and nice compact size.
I recall having this set but it had a traditional knob tuner for VHF and UHF. It started getting a black area on the bottom of the screen and then died. It lasted about 10 years. I do recall opening up the rear cover and seeing really bad connections and poor board traces that looked brownish. Guess the PC boards weren't all that great as well as the connections to it.
It was time for that tv to die. I have an old Phillip's tv from the 90s still working like new. I have it my room master room it's on every night from 6pm to 8 am monday though Friday and weekends all day I have it on me tv most of the time no cable antenna on roof. I too have been told to upgrade it but I have the tv sitting on a small shelf cabinet where the tv must barely fits. I would need to my shelf out to fit a new tv when I'm perfectly fine with my old tv. I do have 45 inch flat screen in the living room o dont use it to much it has so far lasted 12 years. I only have 2 tvs the one in my room the master and the living room tv.
Growing up I had a 27” RCA console TV (CTC-130A/B/C AKA ColorTrak 2000) with those same inputs. Red LED channel indicator. No remote, picture tube dimming via light sensitive diode, direct channel input on front with keypad. Plastic cover for the display was the power button. No OSD. Circa 1988. Around mid 2000, it developed a tuner/display issue. The audio would pass but video was static. It was so old repair man said to junk it. Got a 27” Sony Trinitron after that.
This reminds me. In the mid-late 90s I had an RCA TV-VCR that died from the infamous bad ground solder joints. One day I powered up and it showed Ch 00, which usually selects video in, but it actually showed Ch 00 instead of Video and had only a blue screen. Guess that was the first time it acted up. Eventually one day it shut off while I was watching it, and when I turned it back on, the vertical height was just one inch about 1/3 from the top of the screen with the volume stuck on max. The TV shop couldn’t fix it so it just got thrown away.
Back in the bad ol' days I must have fixed the bad soldering in the tuners of thousands of those GE/RCA/Proscan sets....and probably replaced and reprogrammed just about as many EPROMS in the later ones.
Triplers , that takes me back !. The later encapsulated LOPTs were not as good for sure , several models in the UK during the eighties had particularly useless ones fitted , the Fidelity 14 inch colour portable LOPT was expensive and a constant trade failure .By the late nineties the cheap imported sets seemed to have even worse units fitted . I keep my fingers crossed for my old Sony , if that unit fails I don't think I will find a replacement .
A Sylvania set identical to the one in this video I had bought new in 1979, and by the time I got rid of it, had to replace the flyback transformer three (3) times! It had a really good picture, but it wasn't very reliable.
I really don't watch much TV at all. Yes, I have a flat screen, but it's unplugged and hasn't had power to it for a couple months. All I have is an antenna, haven't had cable in over 2 years. Not worth the money for what is offered. I follow the people I subscribe to on RUclips because there I can find my interests. Don't think I'm going to find many TV repair shows on cable!
I hay my sisters old GE 12 inch B&W set built in 1976 she had as a kid and my old Montgomery Wards 12 inch B&W set built in 1982 I got when I was a kid Both had a complete recap job and cleaning and they are "moth balled" in climate control storage with some vintage computer, video game, and 2-way radio equipment from the late 70's, 80's and 90's. I also have mt parents old vacuum tube AM FM stereo / record player / TV set console in there that I need to go through and restore at some point and my dads old Admiral 19" color set built in the late 60's that has a bad damper tube... May be useless but there was a trailer in Bernice Louisiana that was packed to the gills with 70's/80's era TV sets of all types. I grabbed a couple 19" models and a portable set from there when I pulled the water heater out and they fired right up. Yes the property owner was there and said I could have them all but I didn't have the means to get them all. I have those 2 in storage as well I cannot remember the brands right off though.. Anyways that trailer was slated to be demolished though and this was about a year ago so IDK if it is still there though.. Pretty sure it's all gone now but man it was an impressive collection .
Every Saturday in my town you can go to the town dump, sit and watch all the old crt tv’s come in to the electronics container. Im amazed that they are still coming in. Though i see lots and lots of projection and flat screens too. No one willing to have things fixed anymore.
Radiotvphononut, Could you do a video on the differences of tv brands from the 50s-70s? I know for example "GE, zenith, rca" etc all had their base models and high end. What brand was considered top tier?
I have a 40 inch Flat Screen, that someone gave me a while back, it's badged as Polaroid, so far it's lasted 13 years, How much longer is anyone's guess. I doubt that it's same polaroid who made instamatic Camera , back in 80's.
Yes, Polaroid went through a controlled bankruptcy in the early 2000s and its retirees got screwed. They did have some digital photography products at the time, but I suspect that it's just a rent-a-brand at this point.
I’m an enthusiast but have never worked on any TVs, and from what I’ve seen, I kinda consider there to be three approximate eras of vintage TV: 1. Vintage tube 2. Vintage non-computerized hybrid and solid state 3. Vintage computerized (pushbutton, remote, etc.)
TV today is full of Medicare ads, lawsuit ads, and fake drug ads. And now, full of political ads. It's all garbage. I watch DVD's and Blu Rays. And news. BTW, nice looking tv.
Ever since Richard Dawson left Family Feud, and especially with the present version which I can't stand, it just hasn't been much more than airwave and noise pollution.
The 1990s version with Ray Combs was actually decent and what I watched growing up. You compare that to the horrific version we gotta deal with today it's like night and day. Steve Harvey is an unfunny waste of space.
@@5roundsrapid263, it was a sad thing to have happen. He was far superior to Steve Harvey that is hosting the show now. allthatsinteresting.com/ray-combs
Dang. Just right when I thought I was going to go sleep, you upload a video. Guess I’m staying up and watching! I had that same TV back in the day. Was a reliable tv for many years, it failed the same exact way yours did. The flyback failed and the HOT went shorted.
My uncle had one of those zeniths like the one with the red issue and it worked great for many years. He had it in the kids tv room and they beat the everloving crap out of it and it kept going.
Around here one can pick up 27" Sony tvs that work perfectly, at yard sales, etc. , for $5.00 or FREE. BTW, McGiver is back on tv, in case you need to catch up.
Sorry about your daily viewer buying the farm like that! :(.. I'd like to bring my persepective, as a display calibrator for hire, to your comments starting at 10:29 , regarding longevity of flat screens vs CRT televisions. I'd bet I could get at least 20 years out of a current LCD or LED model, because I do not leave them in factory settings when I get one. In fact, before I even sit back and start watching stuff on it, after it's connected I first go into the user menu, and take the set out of the 'Vivid' or 'Dynamic' mode that it typically ships in. Those settings are selected to sell TVs in a showroom, not for an accurate or acceptable image. What most people don't realize, and what's different today, is that new TVs ship with all the settings maxed out! So for starters, I find a picture mode that is much kinder gentler on the illuminating elements inside the panel, such as 'Movie' mode. One of the reasons these sets last barely three years is that the Backlight is set to max by default. Halfway up, or 50%, is plenty bright for most viewing environments. I also disable any where from half to a dozen so-called 'enhancers'(skin tone, dynamic contrast, dynamic brightness, motion sensing). I set the basic picture settings(Contrast, Brightness, Color, Tint, Sharpness) with a test pattern DVD. The result is a picture you could hardly distinguish, colorwise and brightness wise, from that on a tube set. The only difference is, the modern flat panel has superior resolution. So now, I can personally guarantee 5-10 additional years of service from the flat panel. The problem is, the picture controls are now buried in a menu, vs right there on the cabinet. Some newer models have NO buttons at all on the case, aside from On/Off! Stupid, if you ask me. What if the remote control is broken or lost? So most folks don't bother to look for them, and just accept the super bright, too blue, oversaturated dogs breakfast of a factory picture, and actually accept that this is how 4K UHD or whatever is supposed to look! And when you tell them there's a better way, they tell you "don't fix what isn't broken!". Fine, enjoy your six o'clock news anchor with a face as red as a stop sign.
Huh. I guess this line of TVs commonly failed in this way. In addition to another comment on this video of someone having the same issue, I had a late 1980's RCA XL 100 19" TV set that, for a time, would turn itself on at random. Oddly, this symptom fixed itself and I used it for years without any issues. Another issue it had was that the audio would cut out when tuned into a station and would come back on when tuned to a non-station (i.e. you'd only hear the white noise that accompanied snow but the audio would cut out when the picture came in), which wasn't much of a problem since I mainly used the composite inputs, which worked fine.
Well that stinks about your GE. Hang on to it maybe you'll find the parts to fix it. That Zenith Space Command brings back memories from the 80's. My grandma had one of those for years and we had the console version for awhile. Good TV's.
I'm not a fan of flat screen TVs either from seeing that they don't last and I'd rather spend that money on audio equipment anyways. I still use CRT TVs and my 36" JVC D-Series set was a curb find. I'm more than happy with it and it's been trouble free. I always grab the wood grain TVs when I see them on the curb for gaming events as when you put out a classic console, you must have the wood grain TV to go with it. Most of the time the sets work. Last one I picked up just needed some reflow work on the vertical IC. TV has gone down hill so much that I don't watch it as much as I used to. I listen to the news on radio for about 20 min in the morning and then switch over to music. I like to catch the headlines, but when all the political and COVID-19 craziness start up, it's time to switch the station. I did end up buying a 36" 2K LCD panel for my computer, but it was out of necessity due to working from home. I didn't see the need to get a 4K panel as 2K is perfect for my needs. ;-)
We had a Beautiful 25 RCA from 1986 when I was a child. Stereo with every input/output you could ask for. It had a rough life with a similar problem. Started turning off and back on. Did that randomly for years. Towards the end, it started cycling through the channels until you smacked it. I finally inherited it after it took a lightning strike. Only the video on the inputs worked by that point. We definitely got our money out of it.
Ah good old Thomson... They bought up a load of failing manufacturers in Europe and North America in the 80s and 90s, gradually Thomson-ised them and turned them all crap. In the UK they bought Ferguson from Thorn EMI... their TX100 chassis was one of the most reliable sets ever made (and was used as a rental set for many years), Thomson canned it and replaced it with a French model that had bad picture tubes that failed after a few years' service. Terrible company. Annoyingly I stayed loyal to the Ferguson brand for a while afterwards and wasted a lot of money on that mistake. Should have bought Japanese!
yep crt tv last longer then normal ones of now, one slight drop or knock and its busted, there goes 300 dollars or more depending on the set, and for what? a few channels that might have good stuff on, i'll take my old dvd combo its still going i think 15 ish years? might be longer but it still works, only had to replace a vhs player that broke from being bashed on the head other then that it still going fires up and works good picture, i'll take an old crt then a flat screen, plus with everything being ditital you need a good aril and well that is no good in my area you can get most cvhannels but you have to put the stupid china made aril into places to get that channel to, or use your body as an aril to get picture
Times change. The resolution and 16 x 9 screen make most of us go LCD. Yes I still use a crt set in a room but for a daily set, I would never go back. You can't even read the titles on the news on a crt set.
There is something soothing about the color from an old CRT set that's adjusted correctly. I use my 48" living room set most of the time, but there for some reason, when I turn on the old GE set, despite the screen-door effect, I just want to stare at it for a while.
@@pcno2832 yes the brightness and viewing angle are great. They are still better in some video games. Just saying for today's tv lcd is better. For a VCR, crt is better.
If you really want to, you could get a 16 x 9 CRT, most of them are HD yet still have the "Retro gaming tax" but i recall hearing about a widescreen Sanyo SD set, supposedly rare.
89' hmm its that retro vintage not quite old enough but just old enough were you don't see them any more, 10 bucks is prity good, eh if it dies ship it to shago066 for ELOing
You can watch LOTS of old TV and radio shows on RUclips; on LG OLED it looks stunning and LG prices are quite reasonable. Don’t be a recalcitrant Luddite!
i dont know if i can go back to crt my 32 inch tv dubbles as second computer display there thing i do need 2 computer display plus alot reg hdmi that reg dhcp hand sahke with tv to watch anything hd a lot times it like pyhsical DRM lol . i got hav flat screen for what ido , steve harvry is funny on famiy fude todays idk why but he is , nice videos i lke watvhing
I know, I can't believe these people who refuse to get an HDTV. TV today looks Way better than it ever has, much better than back in the analog days. What's more is the old television shows from the '60s and '70s have been rescanned into HD and they look amazing, better than they ever have. It baffles me how people can continue to watch a CRT, especially those with bad eyesight. I don't think my dad would be able to watch tv if he didn't have HDTV because his eyesight isn't good. You can tell a huge difference when you put an HDTV up against a CRT, the CRT cannot match it period. Shit, if someone was offering me a free tv like he said people offered him ,I think I'd take that offer.
In regards to your diagnosis starting at 8:46; in the fall of 2000, I worked on an early '90s 25" GE color portable set which suffered a blown fuse from a shorted-out Horizontal Output Transistor that also took out some of the underboard SMCs as well. After replacing the 'HOT' (with an NTE part) and adjacent components (capacitor/resistor) and new fuse, the set was up and running with a beautiful picture on the screen for several minutes until it developed high-voltage shut down. Eventually, I found out that this was due to (and I could barely see it) a broke open soldered lead on the side of a bare thermistor in the automatic degaussing circuit that caused this 'cascading' effect and was replaced with an expensive OEM part. Personally, your GE is a 'modern' solid-state television set (to me and not vintage) that is worth keeping because of its 'genuine' simulated woodgrain finish, but I do wish you well in finding a replacement 'IHVT' for it.
Back in the 80's I replaced tons of those IHVT's. RCA provided them at no charge. There was a guy who helped give me my start in the TV business, named Joe Barondeau. Joe sold me ALL of his equipment and SAMS and trusted me for the money. He told me to just give him some cash whenever I had some extra, whenever. So I was paying it off little by little. One day his son's CTC-101 developed a bad IHVT. I got a freebie from RCA and did the job for Joe for free. Joe asked me where the tally slip was for what I owed him. I showed it to him and he marked it "Paid In Full". Nice guy. He passed away around 10 years ago. By the way, Bryan, I noticed your usage of the term "good and faithful servant" referring to your old TV. I know where that phrase comes from and I have a lot of respect for people who use that source and it shows when they use phrases from that book. God Bless you!!
It is so difficult these days to find a church that is actually worshipping Christ and their own navels. The churchians are everywhere, they are wolves in sheep's clothing!
The design was not stupid, the services were poorly educated tube jockeys.
Hey Brian, I have a similar set that uses the same fly. It's good and was in a super low hour set. Msg me if you want that.
Thank you for sharing. You're right, family feud used to be a great game show. It's getting worst since they revised it on game night on ABC. This country is going down hill fast.
One more thing to add. I know this sounds silly but it actually break my heart a little when I throw something away that I've been using for years. Anyway, thanks again for your videos. I learn so much from you.
It’s gotten really bad since Steve Harvey took over. I’m not racially biased, because I think Wayne Brady does a great job on “Let’s Make a Deal!”. Harvey is just too a bit too raunchy.
8:45 I've got a CTC-136 from 1988; it was one of the early stereo sets with the speakers on either side of the screen. It burnt up one night and filled the house with smoke; the horizontal output transistor was gone; most of the smoke came from a fusistor in the power supply, but the flyback was OK. After dicking with it for a few days (I had no schematics), I narrowed it down to a shorted capacitor in the horizontal output circuit, a blue one that was special in some way (it would have been expensive), which I replaced with 4 50cent ceramic capacitors. I wondered if it would work as well with cheaper parts, but it's been flawless for 14 years now.
Good that you're letting these set keep going!!
I picked up a small flatscreen at the Salvation Army for less than 20 bucks. Works great... I originally went in looking for a cheap monitor to use on a computer, but the tv was only 5 bucks more than the monitors, and had HDMI, composite, component, and VGA.
I have a 22" Magnavox flat screen TV that I got brand new some 15 years ago and it's still working fine. It has all those inputs and I use it to test computers because unlike my new TV or PC monitors, this older one has the VGA port along with an HDMI port and it's a TV set as well
lcd or flat screen crt?
It's hard to believe there was a cheaper knob version of this TV because it's hard to imagine the tuner would be cheaper to make than this electronic tuner. Within a few years of this TV, that entire board was shrunk down to a single chip on the main board. In fact, it looks a bit primitive for 1989.
It is fairly primitive for 1989. It’s one of the last pre-Thomson RCA sets. They probably had a lot of old parts lying around, and used them. They needed to save money anywhere they could.
I have an RCA cheap plastic crap TV from the 90s that I bought new. Set probably has about 200 hours on it at most. I use it to play old Atari games. Has a great picture. I really hope it doesn't develop problems any time soon.
I want to get one of those early ATSC prison TVs. They had digital tuners, but used a CRT screen. All of them are clear plastic (prison requirement) and unfortunately, no inputs other than antenna so you can't use them for video games. Still, a high def CRT and nice compact size.
I recall having this set but it had a traditional knob tuner for VHF and UHF. It started getting a black area on the bottom of the
screen and then died. It lasted about 10 years. I do recall opening up the rear cover and seeing really bad connections
and poor board traces that looked brownish. Guess the PC boards weren't all that great as well as the connections to it.
I made a lot of money on these sets from the late 80s to about 2004 ,also on the later rca sets with the tuner on board!! Good ole days!
It was time for that tv to die.
I have an old Phillip's tv from the 90s still working like new.
I have it my room master room it's on every night from 6pm to 8 am monday though Friday and weekends all day I have it on me tv most of the time no cable antenna on roof.
I too have been told to upgrade it but I have the tv sitting on a small shelf cabinet where the tv must barely fits.
I would need to my shelf out to fit a new tv when I'm perfectly fine with my old tv.
I do have 45 inch flat screen in the living room o dont use it to much it has so far lasted 12 years.
I only have 2 tvs the one in my room the master and the living room tv.
RCA made two upgrades to the IHVT in the CTC101 when I was working for the local RCA dealer. They dropped like flies!!!
Thanks, RTPN, I hope you video working on those TVs for us. You don't give us many TV repair videos as you once did.
GE 1989 I had the knob tuned set gave it away,
We actually had several RCA’s fail this same way. I’m not sure why, and yes, all were Thompson era sets failed with bad transformers.
I liked Ray Combs host of Family Feud. I grew up with him as host.
Ray was my favorite Feud host.
Growing up I had a 27” RCA console TV (CTC-130A/B/C AKA ColorTrak 2000) with those same inputs. Red LED channel indicator. No remote, picture tube dimming via light sensitive diode, direct channel input on front with keypad. Plastic cover for the display was the power button. No OSD. Circa 1988. Around mid 2000, it developed a tuner/display issue. The audio would pass but video was static. It was so old repair man said to junk it. Got a 27” Sony Trinitron after that.
This reminds me. In the mid-late 90s I had an RCA TV-VCR that died from the infamous bad ground solder joints. One day I powered up and it showed Ch 00, which usually selects video in, but it actually showed Ch 00 instead of Video and had only a blue screen. Guess that was the first time it acted up. Eventually one day it shut off while I was watching it, and when I turned it back on, the vertical height was just one inch about 1/3 from the top of the screen with the volume stuck on max. The TV shop couldn’t fix it so it just got thrown away.
Back in the bad ol' days I must have fixed the bad soldering in the tuners of thousands of those GE/RCA/Proscan sets....and probably replaced and reprogrammed just about as many EPROMS in the later ones.
They had great picture and beautiful sound.I miss the crt's.
Awesome! I love it when you post TV videos!
It’s been a while since a tv video. Cool sets.
Triplers , that takes me back !. The later encapsulated LOPTs were not as good for sure , several models in the UK during the eighties had particularly useless ones fitted , the Fidelity 14 inch colour portable LOPT was expensive and a constant trade failure .By the late nineties the cheap imported sets seemed to have even worse units fitted . I keep my fingers crossed for my old Sony , if that unit fails I don't think I will find a replacement .
I really enjoy your videos. I wish you would fix guitar amps too.
A Sylvania set identical to the one in this video I had bought new in 1979, and by the time I got rid of it, had to replace the flyback transformer three (3) times! It had a really good picture, but it wasn't very reliable.
I really don't watch much TV at all. Yes, I have a flat screen, but it's unplugged and hasn't had power to it for a couple months. All I have is an antenna, haven't had cable in over 2 years. Not worth the money for what is offered. I follow the people I subscribe to on RUclips because there I can find my interests. Don't think I'm going to find many TV repair shows on cable!
Hello rtvpn, Hey, Joe Howe beat me by seconds. Cool channel, learning a lot from you. All the best, C.
I hay my sisters old GE 12 inch B&W set built in 1976 she had as a kid and my old Montgomery Wards 12 inch B&W set built in 1982 I got when I was a kid Both had a complete recap job and cleaning and they are "moth balled" in climate control storage with some vintage computer, video game, and 2-way radio equipment from the late 70's, 80's and 90's. I also have mt parents old vacuum tube AM FM stereo / record player / TV set console in there that I need to go through and restore at some point and my dads old Admiral 19" color set built in the late 60's that has a bad damper tube...
May be useless but there was a trailer in Bernice Louisiana that was packed to the gills with 70's/80's era TV sets of all types. I grabbed a couple 19" models and a portable set from there when I pulled the water heater out and they fired right up. Yes the property owner was there and said I could have them all but I didn't have the means to get them all. I have those 2 in storage as well I cannot remember the brands right off though.. Anyways that trailer was slated to be demolished though and this was about a year ago so IDK if it is still there though.. Pretty sure it's all gone now but man it was an impressive collection .
Every Saturday in my town you can go to the town dump, sit and watch all the old crt tv’s come in to the electronics container. Im amazed that they are still coming in. Though i see lots and lots of projection and flat screens too. No one willing to have things fixed anymore.
Grab the small ones (13”) if you can. They’re commanding $100+ on eBay these days.
Radiotvphononut,
Could you do a video on the differences of tv brands from the 50s-70s? I know for example "GE, zenith, rca" etc all had their base models and high end. What brand was considered top tier?
My parents got my brother this same set back in 1989(ish). Very good picture.
I have a 40 inch Flat Screen, that someone gave me a while back, it's badged as Polaroid, so far it's lasted 13 years, How much longer is anyone's guess. I doubt that it's same polaroid who made instamatic Camera , back in 80's.
Yes, Polaroid went through a controlled bankruptcy in the early 2000s and its retirees got screwed. They did have some digital photography products at the time, but I suspect that it's just a rent-a-brand at this point.
I’m an enthusiast but have never worked on any TVs, and from what I’ve seen, I kinda consider there to be three approximate eras of vintage TV:
1. Vintage tube
2. Vintage non-computerized hybrid and solid state
3. Vintage computerized (pushbutton, remote,
etc.)
Yup i agree...i work on 1 and 2...the rest just doesnt interest me not even a bit
TV today is full of Medicare ads, lawsuit ads, and fake drug ads. And now, full of political ads. It's all garbage. I watch DVD's and Blu Rays. And news.
BTW, nice looking tv.
I remember when I was little I used too rub my hands on the screen and smelling the static lol
Ever since Richard Dawson left Family Feud, and especially with the present version which I can't stand, it just hasn't been much more than airwave and noise pollution.
Steve Harvey is a funny guy
The 1990s version with Ray Combs was actually decent and what I watched growing up. You compare that to the horrific version we gotta deal with today it's like night and day. Steve Harvey is an unfunny waste of space.
@@BeautifulAngelBlossom, glad you think so. I can't stand him!
Archie Bunker Ray Combs was pretty good. Sadly, he took his own life not long after he left the show. Steve Harvey is just obnoxious...
@@5roundsrapid263, it was a sad thing to have happen. He was far superior to Steve Harvey that is hosting the show now. allthatsinteresting.com/ray-combs
Dang. Just right when I thought I was going to go sleep, you upload a video. Guess I’m staying up and watching! I had that same TV back in the day. Was a reliable tv for many years, it failed the same exact way yours did. The flyback failed and the HOT went shorted.
My uncle had one of those zeniths like the one with the red issue and it worked great for many years. He had it in the kids tv room and they beat the everloving crap out of it and it kept going.
I don't watch much tv but when i do i use a Sylvania 1989 console 25" or 27" I'm not sure the size. Picture is as good as new. Katydid .
Around here one can pick up 27" Sony tvs that work perfectly, at yard sales, etc. , for $5.00 or FREE. BTW, McGiver is back on tv, in case you need to catch up.
Sorry about your daily viewer buying the farm like that! :(..
I'd like to bring my persepective, as a display calibrator for hire, to your comments starting at 10:29 , regarding longevity of flat screens vs CRT televisions.
I'd bet I could get at least 20 years out of a current LCD or LED model, because I do not leave them in factory settings when I get one.
In fact, before I even sit back and start watching stuff on it, after it's connected I first go into the user menu, and take the set out of the 'Vivid' or 'Dynamic' mode that it typically ships in. Those settings are selected to sell TVs in a showroom, not for an accurate or acceptable image.
What most people don't realize, and what's different today, is that new TVs ship with all the settings maxed out!
So for starters, I find a picture mode that is much kinder gentler on the illuminating elements inside the panel, such as 'Movie' mode.
One of the reasons these sets last barely three years is that the Backlight is set to max by default. Halfway up, or 50%, is plenty bright for most viewing environments.
I also disable any where from half to a dozen so-called 'enhancers'(skin tone, dynamic contrast, dynamic brightness, motion sensing).
I set the basic picture settings(Contrast, Brightness, Color, Tint, Sharpness) with a test pattern DVD.
The result is a picture you could hardly distinguish, colorwise and brightness wise, from that on a tube set. The only difference is, the modern flat panel has superior resolution.
So now, I can personally guarantee 5-10 additional years of service from the flat panel.
The problem is, the picture controls are now buried in a menu, vs right there on the cabinet. Some newer models have NO buttons at all on the case, aside from On/Off! Stupid, if you ask me. What if the remote control is broken or lost?
So most folks don't bother to look for them, and just accept the super bright, too blue, oversaturated dogs breakfast of a factory picture, and actually accept that this is how 4K UHD or whatever is supposed to look!
And when you tell them there's a better way, they tell you "don't fix what isn't broken!". Fine, enjoy your six o'clock news anchor with a face as red as a stop sign.
always solder joints. flyback or MTT module. is that a 130? I may have a flyback from when I did rca warranty work
Love it when corporations try to build something a little to cheap and it blows up in their face with warranty claims. That is justice.
Huh. I guess this line of TVs commonly failed in this way. In addition to another comment on this video of someone having the same issue, I had a late 1980's RCA XL 100 19" TV set that, for a time, would turn itself on at random. Oddly, this symptom fixed itself and I used it for years without any issues. Another issue it had was that the audio would cut out when tuned into a station and would come back on when tuned to a non-station (i.e. you'd only hear the white noise that accompanied snow but the audio would cut out when the picture came in), which wasn't much of a problem since I mainly used the composite inputs, which worked fine.
I love those old color tvs with the fake wood
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Did you ever find a replacement for the fly in the GE? I don't know why, but I really liked that set.
Well, your Sylvania is about 40 years old, along with the two Zeniths.
My mom and grandfather had the RCA badged models. I think they develeped the same issues. Long gone now.
We originally designed that tuner module as part of the main board.
Well that stinks about your GE. Hang on to it maybe you'll find the parts to fix it. That Zenith Space Command brings back memories from the 80's. My grandma had one of those for years and we had the console version for awhile. Good TV's.
Technicolor was thomson electronics now its just known as technicolor
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I'm not a fan of flat screen TVs either from seeing that they don't last and I'd rather spend that money on audio equipment anyways. I still use CRT TVs and my 36" JVC D-Series set was a curb find. I'm more than happy with it and it's been trouble free. I always grab the wood grain TVs when I see them on the curb for gaming events as when you put out a classic console, you must have the wood grain TV to go with it. Most of the time the sets work. Last one I picked up just needed some reflow work on the vertical IC. TV has gone down hill so much that I don't watch it as much as I used to. I listen to the news on radio for about 20 min in the morning and then switch over to music. I like to catch the headlines, but when all the political and COVID-19 craziness start up, it's time to switch the station. I did end up buying a 36" 2K LCD panel for my computer, but it was out of necessity due to working from home. I didn't see the need to get a 4K panel as 2K is perfect for my needs. ;-)
We had a Beautiful 25 RCA from 1986 when I was a child. Stereo with every input/output you could ask for. It had a rough life with a similar problem. Started turning off and back on. Did that randomly for years. Towards the end, it started cycling through the channels until you smacked it. I finally inherited it after it took a lightning strike. Only the video on the inputs worked by that point. We definitely got our money out of it.
Ah good old Thomson... They bought up a load of failing manufacturers in Europe and North America in the 80s and 90s, gradually Thomson-ised them and turned them all crap. In the UK they bought Ferguson from Thorn EMI... their TX100 chassis was one of the most reliable sets ever made (and was used as a rental set for many years), Thomson canned it and replaced it with a French model that had bad picture tubes that failed after a few years' service. Terrible company. Annoyingly I stayed loyal to the Ferguson brand for a while afterwards and wasted a lot of money on that mistake. Should have bought Japanese!
fly back RCA part number need it check stock
Tried composite modding a modern black box color crt tv.
Ended up destroying the board ;(
Especially sad as the crt was quite healthy (scratched tho)
One of those weeks ... ;-) thank you for the video
That Sylvania probably blew that funky 4 lead retrace capacitor. Seen a lot of those.
Shango approves.
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METV Or
Antenna TV
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I have a Phillips flat screen and its been working for almost 10 years now.
If its 19",25",27" and crt good save it they are usable for arcade game monitor crt swaps
Maaybe it's gotten a poltergoosed! "Theeyyy're Heeere!"
What happened to cause the TV to blow out?
it's been a while since you've did a video on a TV.
You dont get Metv or antenna tv?
Domt You Get
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Decades
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RCA ColorTVs were junk in 1989.
Your in luck, MacGyver is back on CBS lol.
GE sets aren't worth the effort to restore. They were crap when they came off the production line.
Probly find one on ebay
If you can't find the part you need, maybe you can keep it for parts and save yourself money by not getting it from eBay!
The new technology is designed to fail over time otherwise the manufacturer s wouldn't make money evev Dyson vacuum s have timebomb ic.
yep crt tv last longer then normal ones of now, one slight drop or knock and its busted, there goes 300 dollars or more depending on the set, and for what? a few channels that might have good stuff on, i'll take my old dvd combo its still going i think 15 ish years? might be longer but it still works, only had to replace a vhs player that broke from being bashed on the head other then that it still going fires up and works good picture, i'll take an old crt then a flat screen, plus with everything being ditital you need a good aril and well that is no good in my area you can get most cvhannels but you have to put the stupid china made aril into places to get that channel to, or use your body as an aril to get picture
Times change. The resolution and 16 x 9 screen make most of us go LCD. Yes I still use a crt set in a room but for a daily set, I would never go back. You can't even read the titles on the news on a crt set.
There is something soothing about the color from an old CRT set that's adjusted correctly. I use my 48" living room set most of the time, but there for some reason, when I turn on the old GE set, despite the screen-door effect, I just want to stare at it for a while.
@@pcno2832 yes the brightness and viewing angle are great. They are still better in some video games. Just saying for today's tv lcd is better. For a VCR, crt is better.
Totally agree.... it's also unfair to say all modern sets won't last - plenty will.
If you really want to, you could get a 16 x 9 CRT, most of them are HD yet still have the "Retro gaming tax" but i recall hearing about a widescreen Sanyo SD set, supposedly rare.
I'd never etemp fixing those crt tv's
Cause their kind've dangeros to work on.
If it has a 5U4 in it, it's vintage.
You do know MacGyver is being remade or at least it has been, before all this funny business.
89' hmm its that retro vintage not quite old enough but just old enough were you don't see them any more, 10 bucks is prity good, eh if it dies ship it to shago066 for ELOing
I'm lucky to get 5 years from a flat screen.
You can watch LOTS of old TV and radio shows on RUclips; on LG OLED it looks stunning and LG prices are quite reasonable. Don’t be a recalcitrant Luddite!
No MeTV or Cozi?
I think they have MeTV in his market. I saw it in another video.
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& becides their too hard to get parts for
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i dont know if i can go back to crt my 32 inch tv dubbles as second computer display there thing i do need 2 computer display plus alot reg hdmi that reg dhcp hand sahke with tv to watch anything hd a lot times it like pyhsical DRM lol . i got hav flat screen for what ido , steve harvry is funny on famiy fude todays idk why but he is , nice videos i lke watvhing
Black and white !? Man it's 2020 do you know what's an OLED or QLED panel ?
I know, I can't believe these people who refuse to get an HDTV. TV today looks Way better than it ever has, much better than back in the analog days. What's more is the old television shows from the '60s and '70s have been rescanned into HD and they look amazing, better than they ever have. It baffles me how people can continue to watch a CRT, especially those with bad eyesight. I don't think my dad would be able to watch tv if he didn't have HDTV because his eyesight isn't good. You can tell a huge difference when you put an HDTV up against a CRT, the CRT cannot match it period. Shit, if someone was offering me a free tv like he said people offered him ,I think I'd take that offer.
In regards to your diagnosis starting at 8:46; in the fall of 2000, I worked on an early '90s 25" GE color portable set which suffered a blown fuse from a shorted-out Horizontal Output Transistor that also took out some of the underboard SMCs as well. After replacing the 'HOT' (with an NTE part) and adjacent components (capacitor/resistor) and new fuse, the set was up and running with a beautiful picture on the screen for several minutes until it developed high-voltage shut down.
Eventually, I found out that this was due to (and I could barely see it) a broke open soldered lead on the side of a bare thermistor in the automatic degaussing circuit that caused this 'cascading' effect and was replaced with an expensive OEM part.
Personally, your GE is a 'modern' solid-state television set (to me and not vintage) that is worth keeping because of its 'genuine' simulated woodgrain finish, but I do wish you well in finding a replacement 'IHVT' for it.