Never complain about the cost of TVs again!

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#2474974 1-May-2020 20:10

My parents had this TV. I remember the day it arrived.

Nicam stereo was superb...

I think it was still around in the house to at least 2002 when it was replaced by another large heavy weight.... Sony in classic silver.

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#2475014 1-May-2020 21:28

I regret getting rid of my 29" diva to replace with a "wow, its totally flat" panasonic CRT - the panasonic had more Hz and component in on it. But the picture was craaaaap, blurry at the corners, size changed with brightness like a cheap TV did, sound was rattley and its processing wouldnt work properly with games consoles. The diva took on garage TV duty till it died one day so went out on the side of the road at inorganic time. Vertical collapse on it and too much effort to take to a repair shop.

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#2475023 1-May-2020 22:12

We had one of these bad boys, a NZ made Pye CT104. Must have been early - mid 80s. I worry abut my kids watching TV but when I was their age I was just as into it as they are now. Their tech is much better though, haha.

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#2475036 1-May-2020 23:01

Paid about $3500 for a 29" Mitsubishi 29"TV in 1990. A 29" Sony Trinitron in 92/93 for $2999. A Sony L34 34" TV for around $4k in 95...a 40" Pioneer RPTV for $4999 in 96 and a Pioneer 50" RPTV for around 8K in 98/99. So $3-4k for a 65" OLED sounds about right.

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#2475101 2-May-2020 09:33

A friend had one of the Phillips 37 inch widescreen tvs from late 90s or early 2000s, he paid something like $9k for it. Not sure how much it weighed, lots would be my guess

My first plasma was a bargain, $2k for a 42 "hd ready" in 08

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#2475120 2-May-2020 10:14

dafman:

My Dad managed to wrangle a Philips K9 in some undisclosed 'deal' a year or so before colour was even officially broadcast. We were the first family I knew in Palmie North with a colour TV waiting for what seemed an age for colour to arrive. One night, unexpectedly, an advert burst onto the screen in full colour (massively over saturated as the TV had never been set up). 'Alias Smith and Jones' followed in full colour, then 'Love thy neighbour'. We kids were allowed to stay up after 11pm on a school night such was the was the novelty. Test over, it was many more months before colour was formally broadcast.

And it was first broadcast in Wellington. In the Manawatu, a few with big budgets and short patience invested in tall aerials to pick up the Mt Kaukau signal.

As a kid living opposite Newlands Primary in the 70s, we visited friends who had a colour set. We were told that if we didn't behave, they'd turn the colour down on it so that it was a plain black & white. It was such a novelty that it kept us in line.

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#2475595 3-May-2020 09:00

When I was a kid we got our first black and white TV in late 1964 (for Xmas). I'm pretty sure it was a Pye 23 inch and cost £125 ($250) = >$5,000.

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#2476621 4-May-2020 20:39

My folks got a 26 inch AWA Console Colour TV in February 1976. Think it cost them about $900...that’s about $7250 in today’s money. No stereo sound, but it did have a headphone jack - which if I remember correctly was on the back and hard to reach. No remote (well actually, I was the remote 😊). From memory, it was relatively reliable for the day, but like most people, my parents did have to call Tisco out from time to time.🤔

Seemed great at the time though!

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