#portable televisions

[thegikitiki]

If you can believe it...

Sony Trinitron Televisions, 1976

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General Electric Corp, 1955

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The Finest in Personal Television...

Sony Televisions, 1964

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Big Screen Color...

   Admiral Color Televisions, 1968

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Home Culinary Education...

   Televisions in the Kitchen, Magnavox 5056 Portable TV, 1975

[thevhswizard]

Had a really good flea market run on Sunday with @subversivecynic. No lost/cursed VHS tapes (this time) but I did pick up multiple televisions... technically.

Disclaimer up top, none of these are my pics, just pulling images from the internet to show you what I'm talking about.

I got this bad boy for like $5. It's a portable TV that has an HDTV tuner built into it, allowing it to actually pick up modern tv signals. It's rechargeable too, and the battery has a decent life (though I'm probably going to replace it)

It also has an SD card reader in the side, which allows you to play... select... video files and formats. I was playing around with that function, and the thing that it appeared to be the MOST capable of playing were .mpg files and... somehow... .divx files. (don't ask me why I still had some divx files lying around)

Even though it feels like electronics slop, the sort of thing they sold during the holidays at Walgreens and had behind the glass case at Big Lots 15 years ago, it's an impressive little unit that still works perfectly.

I also found this oddity - a Casio TV-2000. This is one of those TVs that uses pass-through light to illuminate the screen, meaning that you wind up watching the TV image on a mirror once you open the tv.

Second of all, this unit has a "back light system" that snaps on to the screen to offer illumination when the sun has gone down. I've seen things like this before, even for my Citizen, but they usually have their own batteries and are much bulkier. This one draws power from the TV directly through a couple of metal pins at the top where it latches together.

While these are basically unusable today (analog only tuners) I have a soft spot for this particular form factor because I had something very much like this growing up.

This is what my Citizen looks like (again, not my pics, but in this case my new unit I bought a couple of years back to replace my original one IS as good as the one shown)

I loved this thing so hard when I was growing up. Found it at a yard sale, guy did not know what it was and sold it super cheap, and once I worked out what it was I spent a lot of time making sure the adults around me DID NOT know what it was because I'm pretty sure my parents and the school would have both objected to me carting around a TV all the time.

Once mine eventually was loved (to death) by constant use, my parents (who had figured out what it was by that point) broke down and bought me one of the gameboy-shaped color light-up tvs, but it never had the same mystique and magic of watching a weird mirror tv thingy.

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[1950sunlimited]

Sony, 1962