Do you remember these days.....
Sony called it "Trinitron". Screen was flat from top to bottom and they used a single gun instead of the typical three.I grew up with a 27” Sony TV in the family room. The tube was different than most other TVs at the time. Don’t know what they called the tube technology.
Those were some fun times!! I loved going to those places with my parents.Our family grew up on a black and white Setchell Carlson television. We were one of the last households on the block to switch to color.
I remember being in a department store downtown and in their television department. Rows and rows of televisions. Mostly color and the college football games on Saturdays looked great. On the floor were those huge console style sets, some with AM-FM and a record player. Those were beautiful to look at.
Trinitron? It used a vertical aperture grille instead of the standard shadow mask.I grew up with a 27” Sony TV in the family room. The tube was different than most other TVs at the time. Don’t know what they called the tube technology.
One thing I remember with Magnavox, they had the nicest wood cabinets of any brand.We always had RCA tv's. Then in the mid 80s,my parents bought this huge console Sony stereo tv. My grandparents and great-grandparents always had Magnavox. I also remember my grandparents had this Philips black and white tv that was sitting in the dinning room that didn't work. I remember it looking like a spaceship!! Probably from the 1950s?
The Supermarket had tubes for sale. I remember going w/my father. The first color tv we had was a Zenith. The remote used a chime to send sound to tv to change channel. GREAT shows to watch then.
I remember that from an old Eckerd's drug store. I tested a few back thencan remember either a supermarket or hardware store that had a machine on which you could test your tube(s).