I miss those analog TV signal days already. Back when you could pick up faint signals but still get a snowy picture and sound... This digital crap we have today doesn't work at all most of the time in remote areas. It's a racket by the FCC (CRTC here in Canada) to force us to use satellite or cable and pay for something that used to be free (paid by our taxes). Damn governments.
I know, though I never truly used analog over the air too long before they (the U.S.) switched over in june 12th of 2009 here in the U.S., I got a over the air antenna shortly before the switch, but, I think that analog would/could be better then digital. Like you mention, digital is a pain in the neck, not much better then satellite, with getting choppy with weather -_-, I read a comment on another video regarding the switch over in 2009, and it mentioned about that digital is a step backwards, having to use MORE power to send the signal out farther.
AlainHubert Analog tv did have advantages when it came to rural areas and fainter signals as you could still get enough of a picture and sound to be still watchable. With digital, it’s tends to be either a prestige signal, blocky unwatchable picture, or nothing. The advantages with digital are that it’s picture resolution and sound quality are far better then analog tv, with 1080p HD channels (even 1080i, 720p, and 720i are all superior to analog 480i) and up to 5.1 ch. surround sound. The other big advantage, for those in or near major cities is that you get so many more free channels as you can have multiple sub channels for every digital main channel. Plus, if your TV or ATSC converter box supports it, you get a electronic program guide. So for someone like me in a major metro area who dropped cable tv the DTV switchover was big boon. Maybe I’d feel different if I live in a more rural area though.
I got a tv like that! It was made in August, 1984. I got it from my great uncle. Some reason the speaker doesn't work at times and a little tap and it working again. I just bought a adapter so I can hook it up to the cable box. Yours it really good!
Just got one of these thanks to this video! Waking up to the TV instead of radio or a buzzer is rather novel. If anybody needs help getting a picture, you use the external antenna jack in the back that uses a coax to 1/8th inch mono headphone jack converter. You can check ebay or anywhere else for them.
@@michaelhuynh8793 I just looked, can you still get those analog channels. If you can, I'm a little jealous that you still can, I'd like to pick up analog channels.
Man I wish I got to experience the old analog days, I grew up on cable (born in 2001) and I did borrow an analog black and white handheld tv that did work but soon after that all analog stations were shut down for good. Such a shame
Once my dad ditched Dish network for Charter and it was years after analog tv was gone. We had the TV connected straight to the cable without the Charter cable box and we used the remote. It was kind of like the analog tv days.
Another great find! Looks like it has an external antenna port. I remember these back when Computer Club people used to use these as portable monitors for their computer projects at meetings where the machine outputted RF chan 3/4.... :)
Cool t.v. radio 😀 I'm from New Jersey too 😀 I've seen the WCBS sticker in a few of your videos and I figured that you were from this area 😀 Computer videos and stuff like this are really cool 😀 Keep up the awesome videos 😀
Hello anyone reading this. I have this same exact model of this radio and when I turn the tv on it fuzzes most of the time. So can you guys help me how I can get the tv to work and able to watch?
Abraham Xiong Its because it was based off analog signal. and the analog signals went down in 2009. pretty much making these pointless. but im sure there is a way to use a converter box on it. (but im not sure how) still a neat little TV/Clock/Radio. worth keeping .
***** Some analog TV signals are still on the air. Both the USA and Canada have allowed some low-power analog TV stations to remain on the air indefinitely.
I have this exact model, made in June of 84 (I think). It saw extensive use for about a year or so. I lived in a rooming house where an opioid addict roommate wanted me to help pay for cable. TV/Radio reception was actually pretty good. Someone borrowed it in early 2009 and the radio tuning mechanism broke. Still powers up, but without radio tuning it's useless now. Sucks,
Some low-power analog TV stations are still on the air in the USA, especially ones on Channel 6 acting as FM radio stations (since ch. 6's audio carrier is at 87.75 MHz).
I'm a big fan/collector of vintage electronics. I really like this TV/radio combos I would probably own a whole stack of them if it wasn't for the digital switchover. Makes them almost worthless except for radio, and I've got some ghettoblasters for that!
The latest game console I have hoked up to this model of Clock/TV/Radio is a PS3 using RF cables from a PS1. Looks very fine tuned and high definition for a 4:3 Black and White CRT TV of that size. You can still stream RUclips on a PS3 so be able to watch your channel on it till the near future. Mine is baby pink that has now gone butter yellow and was branded by Boots Pharmacy for the UK and Ireland market. It also uses a National Panasonic CRT in side which explains the perfect picture quality.
Westlife I have a question there is analog TV signal in a capital city in the big city of Sacramento California it sign on in December and is working analog we still get analog TV in 2018 in the big city
michael and dustin mclain truman in some larger cities in the u.s. they exempted some low power tv stations from the digital switchover meaning that some people can still tune in an analog station or two in their local area. Where I am in the San Diego area you can pick up a couple of analog Spanish tv stations from over the border in Mexico. Also, you can still get inexpensive digital to Analog tv converter boxes that would allow you to watch DTV (ATSC) singles on an old TV like this one. You’d also get the advantage with such a setup of being able to tune via a remote vs the manual dial on this tv but at the expense of taking up more space though not much more, width-wise at least.
tvs like this on the clock radio wont work any more in my area unless someone works out a way to retro fit them, the analogue signal was just recently shut off.
I once used a Sanyo unit much like that one, except it was smaller, had an LCD clock as opposed to an LED one, and it ran on 5 AA batteries or an AC Adaptor.
They made eveything! There was alarm clocks. So they thought "Hey! Let's add a FM/AM radio!" Then, "Hey! Let's add a analog tv"! What else will they put into alarm clocks? BTW Do youstill have that?
I still got one of these somewhere laying around it's just kind of funny cuz it's things older than I am I didn't even know was made in 84 I was born in 85 LOL but at times when I was poor and had very little space and very little stuff for myself I would use this TV time the time her quite a few things in it very much came in handy cuz one thing you did not point out about it is that in the back of the TV there is one of those AV headphone jack things well actually now that I think about it I don't think it was built then I think it was just the screws and then you would have to either add on your own antenna or cable connection of your choice that was available at the time which at that time I don't think there was a AV one I think you had to get converters to do all that don't say you had old TVs or around back in those times probably would know what I'm talking about with the old TV that did not have the hook up for a cable wire and the closest thing they had or the screws that you can either put a homemade antenna on a regular antenna on or the cable connection. so like I was saying I had that thing hooked up pretty crazy like and about as ghetto as you could. and had the TV connection screwed into the back of it then from there I had it screwed into a VCR from there I had the AV on the back of the VCR which only gave me one speaker and the video and then from there I would sometimes just watch VHS tapes or I would hook up with DVD player to it or sometimes of a new game system and as time went on I still have this and the last time I used it by that time HDMI was around so I had to hook it up like I was saying before with the VCR and then I had to get a AV to HDMI adapter look up today's technology to it. it just makes me laugh after seeing this that iced use it that way and it was crazy that I could use in that way cuz it was a little black and white alarm clock TV from the mid-eighties and I was surprised myself that I was able to do all that with it I just hated it was black and white and it had a small screen but I can't complain too much for a poor man's home theater LOL it did the job and as much as it sucked it kept me occupied for hours and hours and save me a lot of boredom.
Why did stop making these tv clock radios? They should totally make a digital version or even hd version of it for today's market, maybe throw in Bluetooth and set if better quality speakers.
As sad as it may be, there is just not much demand for it anymore. Most people nowadays don't even have a dedicated alarm clock anymore, because they use their phones as alarm. This was practical back in the day where you consume most of your media from television and FM radio. Now, most people use Spotify, RUclips and the Internet to get daily information. But at least these things can be found pretty easily, and cheaply in the US, apparently. They seem pretty cool to me, but I haven't seen them in my country and I have too much stuff here.
Yeah, I know, I was just commenting on someone else's comment that I think I would have liked analog better then digital. I commented how digital is no better then satellite in terms of weather.
I miss those analog TV signal days already. Back when you could pick up faint signals but still get a snowy picture and sound... This digital crap we have today doesn't work at all most of the time in remote areas. It's a racket by the FCC (CRTC here in Canada) to force us to use satellite or cable and pay for something that used to be free (paid by our taxes). Damn governments.
I know, though I never truly used analog over the air too long before they (the U.S.) switched over in june 12th of 2009 here in the U.S., I got a over the air antenna shortly before the switch, but, I think that analog would/could be better then digital. Like you mention, digital is a pain in the neck, not much better then satellite, with getting choppy with weather -_-, I read a comment on another video regarding the switch over in 2009, and it mentioned about that digital is a step backwards, having to use MORE power to send the signal out farther.
AlainHubert Analog tv did have advantages when it came to rural areas and fainter signals as you could still get enough of a picture and sound to be still watchable. With digital, it’s tends to be either a prestige signal, blocky unwatchable picture, or nothing. The advantages with digital are that it’s picture resolution and sound quality are far better then analog tv, with 1080p HD channels (even 1080i, 720p, and 720i are all superior to analog 480i) and up to 5.1 ch. surround sound. The other big advantage, for those in or near major cities is that you get so many more free channels as you can have multiple sub channels for every digital main channel. Plus, if your TV or ATSC converter box supports it, you get a electronic program guide. So for someone like me in a major metro area who dropped cable tv the DTV switchover was big boon. Maybe I’d feel different if I live in a more rural area though.
Thats liberal democracies for you, catering to capital instead of the people.
How do i always get here every time i look something retro up, I honestly love this channel and watch every video.
My very first ever bought TV and mine had the color dash design instead of the small dot grid you see next to the “TV/FM/AM Clock Radio”
I got a tv like that! It was made in August, 1984. I got it from my great uncle. Some reason the speaker doesn't work at times and a little tap and it working again. I just bought a adapter so I can hook it up to the cable box. Yours it really good!
Just got one of these thanks to this video! Waking up to the TV instead of radio or a buzzer is rather novel. If anybody needs help getting a picture, you use the external antenna jack in the back that uses a coax to 1/8th inch mono headphone jack converter. You can check ebay or anywhere else for them.
I miss the days when you could still get analog signals on old TVs and use vintage analog cellphones.
CrudGamer1. I still have analog TV in my city
Its a shame because its something people who collect retro tech could use it for.
@@michaelhuynh8793 How? Where do you live?
morgan russman I live in Merced California
@@michaelhuynh8793 I just looked, can you still get those analog channels. If you can, I'm a little jealous that you still can, I'd like to pick up analog channels.
I actually had one like this in the 70’s. It was a Princess with the little B & W tv, am fm sw radio & cassette player.
I wasn't going to include that clip at the end, but the "Moody Manitoba Morning" song was just too cool to leave out!
Man I wish I got to experience the old analog days, I grew up on cable (born in 2001) and I did borrow an analog black and white handheld tv that did work but soon after that all analog stations were shut down for good. Such a shame
It is actually very small. Remember, its TV screen is only 5 inches diagonal.
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just acquired one of these via an estate sale. I hope I can get the TV section to also work.
Once my dad ditched Dish network for Charter and it was years after analog tv was gone. We had the TV connected straight to the cable without the Charter cable box and we used the remote. It was kind of like the analog tv days.
Another great find! Looks like it has an external antenna port. I remember these back when Computer Club people used to use these as portable monitors for their computer projects at meetings where the machine outputted RF chan 3/4.... :)
Cool t.v. radio 😀 I'm from New Jersey too 😀 I've seen the WCBS sticker in a few of your videos and I figured that you were from this area 😀 Computer videos and stuff like this are really cool 😀 Keep up the awesome videos 😀
this would be pretty awesome if mtv actually had music videos.
This would've been luxury in the 80s and 90s, waking up to TV in the morning. :p
Man, you're the best! I love your videos.
I had a tv like this in the day sitting at the edge of my bed.
I just bought one of these.
Yes. ANY kind of TV can be used with a converter box.
Hello anyone reading this. I have this same exact model of this radio and when I turn the tv on it fuzzes most of the time. So can you guys help me how I can get the tv to work and able to watch?
Abraham Xiong Its because it was based off analog signal. and the analog signals went down in 2009. pretty much making these pointless. but im sure there is a way to use a converter box on it. (but im not sure how) still a neat little TV/Clock/Radio. worth keeping .
***** Some analog TV signals are still on the air. Both the USA and Canada have allowed some low-power analog TV stations to remain on the air indefinitely.
vwestlife
Oh i did not know that. thanks for the info.
Oh god you still had channels to pull from the air. I can’t get anything today in 2024.
this honestly could have been a prop in videodrome
Excellent movie!
Now THAT looks cool. I once had a TV/Radio combo set.....don't know what happened to it. :)
I have this exact model, made in June of 84 (I think). It saw extensive use for about a year or so. I lived in a rooming house where an opioid addict roommate wanted me to help pay for cable. TV/Radio reception was actually pretty good. Someone borrowed it in early 2009 and the radio tuning mechanism broke. Still powers up, but without radio tuning it's useless now. Sucks,
The TV program in 1:46 is called "Wheel of Fortune" :)
Good video
How couldn’t someone know!
It's so sad that the Analog signal TV in the USA was off the air since June 2009. (about 10 years ago)
Some low-power analog TV stations are still on the air in the USA, especially ones on Channel 6 acting as FM radio stations (since ch. 6's audio carrier is at 87.75 MHz).
My grandpa had a colour one of these. (1989)
The color versions of those small portable TV's are more rare and more expensive considering how expensive it is to produce color CRT's that small.
@@sethhorst6158 I have a tiny emerson color tv its portable
I'm a big fan/collector of vintage electronics. I really like this TV/radio combos I would probably own a whole stack of them if it wasn't for the digital switchover. Makes them almost worthless except for radio, and I've got some ghettoblasters for that!
Cool max headroom
My grandmother used to have one of these and then she passed it on to me.
They made It under many brands
i have this exact model, granted mines beat to hell and back, still works like a champ!
The latest game console I have hoked up to this model of Clock/TV/Radio is a PS3 using RF cables from a PS1. Looks very fine tuned and high definition for a 4:3 Black and White CRT TV of that size. You can still stream RUclips on a PS3 so be able to watch your channel on it till the near future. Mine is baby pink that has now gone butter yellow and was branded by Boots Pharmacy for the UK and Ireland market. It also uses a National Panasonic CRT in side which explains the perfect picture quality.
Can find them around still on eBay
i can totally see a college student having one of those in their dorms or something, i wouldn't mind owning one of those when i go to college
Who is watching in 2021
That things looks awesome!
I have one of those in my bedroom right now.
That’s so cool.
Wow!!!
when was this taped 12 am or 12pm
Checker Boy Neither. The clock wasn't set correctly. :-)
Westlife I have a question there is analog TV signal in a capital city in the big city of Sacramento California it sign on in December and is working analog we still get analog TV in 2018 in the big city
michael and dustin mclain truman in some larger cities in the u.s. they exempted some low power tv stations from the digital switchover meaning that some people can still tune in an analog station or two in their local area. Where I am in the San Diego area you can pick up a couple of analog Spanish tv stations from over the border in Mexico. Also, you can still get inexpensive digital to Analog tv converter boxes that would allow you to watch DTV (ATSC) singles on an old TV like this one. You’d also get the advantage with such a setup of being able to tune via a remote vs the manual dial on this tv but at the expense of taking up more space though not much more, width-wise at least.
Hey VWestlife. Don't you need something like a digital converter box to receive regular TV brodcast? :)
This was made before the shutoff in 2009. But yes, now he needs one.
This item was so Creampuff I left my Shango video to soak in the splendor.
tvs like this on the clock radio wont work any more in my area unless someone works out a way to retro fit them, the analogue signal was just recently shut off.
don't think so
I once used a Sanyo unit much like that one, except it was smaller, had an LCD clock as opposed to an LED one, and it ran on 5 AA batteries or an AC Adaptor.
if only analog tv still excisted
Analog LPTV still exists in some areas.
Why can't both Analog and Digital be broadcasted?!??
@@sethhorst6158 Analog takes up a tone of bandwidth. We would have a lot less channels.
Well it's better than none, the way it is now prevents me from watching the news on my television set because the TV I use is analog.
I know. :'(
Awesome, never knew this existed
What local channels you get?
That Bells tune "Moody Manitoba Morning" is difficult to find. I don't think it was ever reissued on to CD.
You can still do it with a set-top box/analogue transmitter.
They made eveything! There was alarm clocks. So they thought "Hey! Let's add a FM/AM radio!"
Then, "Hey! Let's add a analog tv"! What else will they put into alarm clocks?
BTW Do youstill have that?
Wow nice! they don't make those anymore...
where would I be able to buy one of these and how much would it cost?
Also do you have measurements for it?
What are you going to do about the TV after June 12th?
digital box decoder + rf modulator
i recive something simalare you told about with the phone sounds on my 1974 color tv
That is an awesome little set! How'd you find it?
how did u get TV on there
It has a TV built in, also analog TV was still going strong in 2008.
I'm a chicken man... Nice gadget my friend!
Aaahhh, it's the chicken man!
oh shit, thats so cool im gonna on amazon and im gonna try to find one
I had that same exact one
I still got one of these somewhere laying around it's just kind of funny cuz it's things older than I am I didn't even know was made in 84 I was born in 85 LOL but at times when I was poor and had very little space and very little stuff for myself I would use this TV time the time her quite a few things in it very much came in handy cuz one thing you did not point out about it is that in the back of the TV there is one of those AV headphone jack things well actually now that I think about it I don't think it was built then I think it was just the screws and then you would have to either add on your own antenna or cable connection of your choice that was available at the time which at that time I don't think there was a AV one I think you had to get converters to do all that don't say you had old TVs or around back in those times probably would know what I'm talking about with the old TV that did not have the hook up for a cable wire and the closest thing they had or the screws that you can either put a homemade antenna on a regular antenna on or the cable connection. so like I was saying I had that thing hooked up pretty crazy like and about as ghetto as you could. and had the TV connection screwed into the back of it then from there I had it screwed into a VCR from there I had the AV on the back of the VCR which only gave me one speaker and the video and then from there I would sometimes just watch VHS tapes or I would hook up with DVD player to it or sometimes of a new game system and as time went on I still have this and the last time I used it by that time HDMI was around so I had to hook it up like I was saying before with the VCR and then I had to get a AV to HDMI adapter look up today's technology to it. it just makes me laugh after seeing this that iced use it that way and it was crazy that I could use in that way cuz it was a little black and white alarm clock TV from the mid-eighties and I was surprised myself that I was able to do all that with it I just hated it was black and white and it had a small screen but I can't complain too much for a poor man's home theater LOL it did the job and as much as it sucked it kept me occupied for hours and hours and save me a lot of boredom.
Did Emerson actually manufacture everything that bore its name?
Thanks for posting.
No
In the old days a lot of companies made their own stuff. Orion made their TVs and VCRs before they switched to Funai to make them.
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This is cool :)
Nice, want one. ;-)
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For heat??
I got a TV transmitter analogue
it could fit on a windo stand
Why did stop making these tv clock radios? They should totally make a digital version or even hd version of it for today's market, maybe throw in Bluetooth and set if better quality speakers.
As sad as it may be, there is just not much demand for it anymore. Most people nowadays don't even have a dedicated alarm clock anymore, because they use their phones as alarm. This was practical back in the day where you consume most of your media from television and FM radio. Now, most people use Spotify, RUclips and the Internet to get daily information.
But at least these things can be found pretty easily, and cheaply in the US, apparently. They seem pretty cool to me, but I haven't seen them in my country and I have too much stuff here.
u r so cool
I have that little portable tv! I have a video of it on my Channel!
I few of these in Italy different brands same thing
hmm..i had a Matsui thing identical to that.....
No, I gave it away.
Oh.
Digital is more irritating than analog, with a weak digital signal you get no picture with analog tv you just get a bit of static
Yeah, I know, I was just commenting on someone else's comment that I think I would have liked analog better then digital. I commented how digital is no better then satellite in terms of weather.
damn it 7:15
Above channel 69 lol
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crt tv clock TV/radio
Its an interesting idea but god it that unit ugly! You have to have a table large enough by your bed to accommodate it.
Warning
good ole analog... I hate dtv