TVs you have owned

[Arthur Pringle]

Don't think we've had a thread discussing the brand or type of tv member's have owned or used now or in the past. I've had an 'HD Ready' JVC 32" tv for over 10 years, it still works fine but it's time to replace it with a 4k tv. What kind of tv have you got? 

[Nightfly]

Sony Bravia 32 HD ready which is over 10 years old.  Still working fine. My only beef is that it only has 2 HD inputs, so I have to mess around with an adaptor to attach the DVD, media player, Chromecast etc.

This was my first "bedroom" TV (A Fergusson Courier, apparently) I had as a teenager which, back then, had a fourth channel button which wouldn't have been any use at the time.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_sU7MK_4Z

[Dirty Epic]

This was my first TV a Sharp 14" I got for Xmas '85 great little set and lasted until 1990.


I got this Panasonic in 1990 and this one was still going strong until 2000 too.



Seems weird we accepted 14" as good watchable sets with all this 72" stuff around now.   

[Del Boy]

I recently bought a Panasonic 75inch 4k telly for £700 sovs, free delivery, 5 year guarantee. Lovely Jubbly.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CdB7mUGoTt_

The price of these is so much cheaper than years ago. I paid about the same in 1995 for a 26inch Sony CRT from Rumbelows.

[Arthur Pringle]

After consideration I think I'll be getting a 43" Sony Bravia. It's for my bedroom so it can't be too big, also as I watch a lot of older content, some of it less than dvd quality, I was wary about how it might look on a bigger screen. I think 50" would be the limit for the room. I was looking at a Samsung but to my surprise it has no headphone socket, you need to get an adaptor or use bluetooth. This phasing out of old technology, you wonder how older people get on with it, the variables are quite complicated even for a younger mind. 

I had a portable Ferguson tv in my room in my teens, I think it was bought second hand for £60. I left a can of coke on it & knocked it over by accident ruining the tv. I remember my dad was not happy, I can still hear him shouting 'what the bloody hell were you doing putting a drink on it'. He hated spending money did my dad. 

In the 80's we had a Sony Trinitron then later a Toshiba FST. I've still got the tv shop catalogue that my parents took home to decide which tv to buy, it has the price in biro written in it, about £600 from memory. My mum splashed out after her mum died & bought the tv with money she'd left in her will. Prior to that I think we rented tv's. 

[Cartman]

We always rented TVs, the first one I had in my bedroom was a black and white one, of unknown make, which I got in 79, it had one of those near useless indoor aerials.

[Nightfly]

May 2, 2022 9:18:35 GMT Cartman said:

We always rented TVs, the first one I had in my bedroom was a black and white one, of unknown make, which I got in 79, it had one of those near useless indoor aerials.

With the exception of the portable I had as a kid, my parents never bought a main set. They were always rented from the local TV dealer.  In the 70s, the village TV shop was taken over by the chap who had started there as an apprentice TV engineer and the parents still referred to him as "the TV lad" even when he got into his mid-60s ! The amount of rental they must have paid him and his previous firm between 1960 and 2014 would no doubt have been an eye opener.  One Danish set they rented from the early 80s lasted 20 years without a single call out.

When the parents passed away 7 years ago, I went to settle their account and return the set and the TV Lad retired a month later. In the end, I think he was just left with a small handful of pensioners on his rental books.

[Deleted]

I’ve had one or two tv’s over the years like anyone else!  We once had a portable Toshiba one in the kitchen when I lived at home, it was used a lot every single day with being in the kitchen and lasted about 17 years! TV’s were made to last back then, and if something dud go wrong with um then a guess you’d get some repair man to come around and fix it, not like today. In the 80s I had a few Bang & Olufsen sets, which were ridiculously priced back then! okay the speakers were good, but the tube was just made by Philips and so I think one was just paying for the name! but they did look good at the time mainly down to all having like a sheet of flat tinted glass which was fixed in front of the standard usual curved glass tube, which was common of all tele’s in those days. Must admit the sheet of glass did make it kinda cool an futuristic but the biggest size they I think was a 26” which had a price tag of about £900, a lot of money back then and to lay out, especially when they’re top of the range slim video recorder was about £650 but the sound did have a nice Dolby dts feel to it, which I think was a mimic thing when I remember pressing this enhanced but! guess the whole thing was state of the heart at the time..  

[D.C. Burtonshaw]

Up until 1989, my parents rented the TV sets too from Radio Rentals. I remember the 2nd black and white one I can remember in my lifetime was a made by Baird (named after the televisions inventor in the first place - John Logie Baird). The chanel button were more than a cm thick cylinders, which you had to press some way to change the channels. It arrived about 1981, and replaced the previous Ferguson (I think one). Lost count of the different colour ones, my parents had after they gave up the rentals and bought a colour one.

Similar to Cartman, my brother had a cheap black and white portable with the "Hit and Miss" aerial which was a hoop shaped wire. The outer casing was an off white colour. I have a 36 inch Panasonic these days.

[Arthur Pringle]

The Toshiba FST Blackstripe we had had a piece of tinted glass clipped to the screen which was easily removed, I think its purpose was to reduce glare. 
It also had a soft eject holster to store the remote, very classy. 

I've ordered a Sony Bravia 43" 4k tv, £500. Estimated arrival is in a week. If money were no object I would've got an Oled tv, though I have read horror stories about screen burn & limited life span on Oled tv's so my disappointment at being too poor to buy one has been tempered a bit.