HiFi Component TV - What? and Why?

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A look at a HiFi component TV - a category that reached its brief zenith in the late 1970s
The WiFi Mirasceen Airplay/Miracast device I used in this video is currently out of stock in the UK Amazon store amzn.to/2WxRN8B - however it is still available in the US amzn.to/2Scd4pe and you can also find it on ebay ebay.to/2RvwpNy (It's not brilliant though - audio can be laggy - so don't take this as some kind of glowing endorsement - but it just about worked well enough for me to make this video).
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@djbongwater 5 лет назад

I just gotta say, theres a lot of eccentric defunct gadget collectors out there but I think youre the only one with a youtube channel that concisely shares the history and context of each thing purely for the sake of informing people and for the love of the game. Truly amazing youtube channel! Thank you for what you do.

@lashyndragon 5 лет назад

*flippin eck*

@DissociatedWomenIncorporated 4 года назад

🤦

@FrankOlsonTwins 5 лет назад

Best intro yet! Excellent CRT shot. Should we hereafter call you Mat Headroom?

@CattoRayTube 5 лет назад

Doesn't take much to reach max headroom on that screen :p

@MrWombatty 5 лет назад

Best puppets outro yet!

@MrDuncl 5 лет назад

I think he was referring to this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cYdpOjletnc.html Back in the day we were amazed by the cutting edge computer graphics even if they kept glitching,The truth was it was actually a bloke in a rubber mask !

@CattoRayTube 5 лет назад

@@MrDuncl Well aware of Max Headroom, hence why I quickly reworded my first reply from "maximum" to "max" to be more in line with OP's joke haha

@6581punk 5 лет назад

@@MrDuncl They won an oscar or something for the computer graphics. They did use some in the background at times, although sometimes it was just animated conventionally. To see Max Headroom actor out of costume he is in a very funny buddy cop movie called Short Time.

@RabbitEarsCh 5 лет назад

Black & White televisions remained very common in Venezuela for a long time as we were especially late to the party - color TV was first attempted in 1969, but banned (yes, really) until 1979, at which point stations were then finally able to broadcast in colour, even though they'd been recording in colour for years. Funny thing is: no one was making black & white television transmitters anymore at that point, so the engineers just passed the signal through a filter that would strip out everything but luminance and hope for the best, but the filters weren't very good with the red channel. So, I'm told, if you were watching a programme with a lot of bright red colours in it (say, Star Trek for example), from a colour TV, you could see the faint traces of red on your screen, since the transmission wasn't really Black & White to begin with.

@lollandster 5 лет назад

Thanks for the cool fun fact. I had to check if this was true (the banned part in particular) and at first glance it seemed wrong as wikipedia say Venezuela started color transmission in 1974. But with no sources stated I wasn't about to trust wikipedia over a random comment on youtube, so I followed the link to Televisora Nacional were 1980 was stated as the start of color TV. This time they had included a source and in that source the story was exactly as you told it, that is color broadcasts started in 1979 and was banned before that. The article explains how TV programs in Venezuela where made in color as early as 1972, but transmitted in black and white because government hadn't opened the broadcast band for color signals. Shows how you shouldn't trust Wikipedia. The source was www.monografias.com/trabajos13/televis/televis.shtml

@RabbitEarsCh 5 лет назад

@@lollandster I know it's sort of cliché to say things like this, but my family is very involved in TV and my dad was a high-level engineer and manager in RCTV for many years, so we are very familiar with the inner workings of the system and the bizarre political considerations that went on in television in the country. He was also responsible for the first public stereo TV broadcast in the nation in 1984 with RCTV; I believe at the time they co-opted an FM radio transmitter to do the stereo sound part of the transmission if I remember my details correctly. The actual broadcast is up on my channel, look for "Astor Piazzolla".

@Helvetica_Scenario 5 лет назад

Do you know why it was banned? Was this done in order to keep from having "haves" and "have-nots" when it came to color tv?

@DG1TAL 5 лет назад

Do you remember if that ban was based on political or technological reasons? I could imagine that the issue was the increased RF bandwidth of the color TV signal and maybe some non-standard channel spacing.

@LEGOpachinko 5 лет назад

did you correct/edit wikipedia ?

@tomimantyla8236 5 лет назад

This would have been nice when MTV still played music videos. In stereo, of course.

@IVR02 5 лет назад

Well, there’s MTV Classic, but they’re not exactly what I’d call “good.” They repeat too many videos, and what they consider to be “classic” is questionable at best.

@murpesx 5 лет назад

I remember being able to hook my cable TV directly to the FM antenna input on my stereo and listening to MTV that way. I wish I could remember how it worked, but I was just a kid in the 80s. Perhaps my cable company just had an FM feed they provided, but it was in stereo and it sounded comparatively great. I recorded a lot of music to cassette that way.

@Madkoifish 5 лет назад

would not matter much as this thing is mono. The single output is a single rca or component connector.

@jamesslick4790 5 лет назад

@@Madkoifish That's because it is from 1978. There was no stereo sound on US broadcast television until 1984.

@robsemail 5 лет назад

@@jamesslick4790 you're right, but there were times when broadcasters would work around the technical restrictions. All through the 1970s it was common for stereo FM stations to partner with TV stations for one-time stereo broadcasts. Usually it would be for a concert, because anything else would be unappealing to the FM station. One regular broadcast of this type was the PBS show 'Austin City Limits' which for many years was simulcast on NPR radio. By the late 70s, there were several music-video shows that aired on the major TV networks late at night on Fridays and Saturdays, and in many markets those shows were simulcast in stereo on FM radio. Of course, in such a case the device reviewed in this video would be irrelevant, because it would make more sense to record the FM signal. My main point is that the years before 1984 in the US were not completely devoid of stereo television.

@909sickle 5 лет назад

"Now, the fact you're watching this video, either means I resisted the urge to touch everything with my bare flesh, or after my demise, Sony bought the entire Techmoan estate for a few billions dollars and employed a sound-alike to finish off this voice-over in my absence." Well..... which is it??

@MarcKloos 5 лет назад

Sound-alike, most likely James May.

@JeniousJustin 5 лет назад

Looking forward to more Sony owned content with his sound-alike.

@coen123 5 лет назад

You ain't nobody unless you die young and have the rights to unreleased material sold of to major entertainment companies in order to capitalize on them for a depressingly long amount of time.

@AndyLundell 5 лет назад

The extra budget Sony can bring to this channel will be great, at least for about six months. After that, they'll stop trying to imitate Matt's style and it'll just get pointless and click-baity.

@tedhaubrich 5 лет назад

Well, the end of the video DID feature a Sony version with 'more features'.

@LemonExtras 5 лет назад

Never stop making videos, Matt. Love your channel.

@user-Merovingian1980 9 месяцев назад

why are most youtubers named Matt hahahaha very odd but true

@Techmoan 5 лет назад

GIFs are available here: gfycat.com/@TheMoans m.imgur.com/gallery/Axp1nkm

@Sheevlord 5 лет назад

It sucks when RU-vid does weird things like this

@zzstoner 5 лет назад

JIFs :)

@BryanHancocks 5 лет назад

You should do the puppets as a standalone video for more "Engagement"

@The_Studioworkshop 5 лет назад

Techmoan it’d be interesting to see review of the popular Thorn 1500 chassis television from the 70s. One of the most B&W 625line TV to date in the UK.

@axemanracing6222 5 лет назад

First link gives me this file to save (no GIF) QueasyPersonalGartersnake.webp Second link lets me "save video to" Where are the GIFS (I'm using Opera, NOT Chrome!)

@KiwiExpressCream 5 лет назад

I need to use those GIFS! The Picard facepalm is getting old now.

@russellhltn1396 5 лет назад

Where's the GIFs??? Come on, you can't tease us like that an not deliver!

@Panzercommander121 5 лет назад

@@russellhltn1396 In the description, but here: gfycat.com/@TheMoans

@zepelin33 5 лет назад

@@Panzercommander121 yes, yes. thank you. (Y)

@IntyMichael 5 лет назад

Flippin eck

@holderbee7811 5 лет назад

Number 1, I order you to take a number 2

@robertmudry4242 5 лет назад

I had a black and white tv in my room growing up, but swapped it out for a small portable color tv/radio/tape recorder. The screen was tiny, but it was brilliant to me! The coolest part was you could use the built in tape recorder to record live tv. I would record all sorts of shows, and listen to them when going to sleep. This was probably early to mid 80’s.

@EmanuelFrias 5 лет назад

The way this video was presented was really neat, I'm loving every little detail and effort put into theses videos. Great content, Techmoan!

@CornishMotorcycleDiaries 5 лет назад

Puppets! Yay!!! That JC Penney device is the Old Skool equivalent of all those Apps that allow you to download the music off RU-vid videos.

@stp22 5 лет назад

Brushed Aluminium, stunning and built to last, compared to majority of plastic in house brands, this is amazing for the time

@Rebel9668 5 лет назад

Back then Sears was also a good in store brand with their Series LXI and before that their Silvertone brand which dated back to the 1930's.. Montgomery Ward had their Airline brand that dated back to the 1930's as well.

@garethwilliams5809 4 года назад

I'm a big fan of brushed aluminium

@onometre 4 года назад

I unironically love wood grain too. It's not even nostalgia, wood grain was pretty rare when I was a kid in the early 00s.

@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc 4 года назад

Gareth Williams Me too. The ultimate machine age hiding, before the black plastic toy time period.

@marcuscook5145 3 года назад

@@Rebel9668 I have an old tube Silvertone radio from the '50s that belonged to my great grandmother. Still works.

@traxonwax 5 лет назад

Looks like a natural fit for your main hi fi system. Love the silver finish and those big heavy knobs and switches.

@andromedastrain77 5 лет назад

I grew up with a black and white TV in my bedroom in the 80's. I had about 40 of them. My Grandfather and I would buy them for $2 a piece and I'd pull them to bits lol I did get an arc from a flyback once. My finger got too close... It hurt... Recording of the TV audio I did by tuning my cassette radio to 100.75MHz - the sound carrier for Channel 4 here in Australia - which was the RF output of our VCR (I tapped the coaxial lead :-)

@steviebboy69 5 лет назад

I remember hearing the audio on the FM band, the ABC and AMV4 in Albury as well. You could also hear the Vision carrier.

@andromedastrain77 5 лет назад

@@steviebboy69 Haha yep, that annoying buzzing. My bestie and I used to sit down the river here and listen to Rage on 91.75 - Channel 3. I recorded a plethora of Top 50's from that ABC station. Good times.

@steviebboy69 5 лет назад

What part of the country are you from by the way. I remember Rage, my Sister liked that one alot,.

@RodBeauvex 5 лет назад

One of these appears in the background of Smash Mouth's Walking on the Sun at 30 seconds in.

@volvo09 5 лет назад

gotta check that out, neato!

@napunch 5 лет назад

Cool -- did see that.

@aterack833 4 года назад

I thought you meant the puppet gifs because I hadn’t heard of that song so thought maybe it was new or something and then saw it was 9 years old (or more) and thought “oh maybe it’s the same thing but the video isn’t original or maybe he bought these puppets or made his own, puppets were pretty big in music videos for a while there” then I see it at 31 seconds in.... flippin eck

@stnickwoods 5 лет назад

6:24 RIP Techmoan....Hello hand model. (I assumed they used the same technology from Ebert for his voice)

@williamberger2178 5 лет назад

Very interesting, I was working for JCPenney Advertising at the time and I never saw this product. In 1978 JCP was starting to sell VHS player/recorders and that seemed to sell well. I believe the JCP VHS units were made by Hatachi originally and they seemed pretty good. Thanks for the research.

@williamberger2178 4 года назад

Spellcheck is a bitch, thanks

@creakycracker 4 года назад

I remember I worked as a teenager at a General Electric TV factory in the 80s. Hitachi toured the plant to buy it. Someone in management told me the deal fell through for 2 reasons: One was Hitachi was aghast at the waste in the American factory saying they could produce another production line from the components found on the floor, and the Other was they were shocked that we didn't make our sets with better components. The rumor was Hitachi used computer - grade components in their sets. Three years later GE packed up the whole thing and had the sets made in Singapore.

@NJRoadfan 5 лет назад

Its interesting that this product category vanished right before decent television audio became a thing. MTS stereo sound (BTSC) showed up in 1984 in select markets of the USA. Of course by then the "new" Hi-Fi VCRs came with built in MTS tuners with handy RCA output jacks to connect to a stereo. Its debatable that something like this would have been cheaper than a Hi-Fi stereo capable VHS or Betamax deck, maybe for a year or two before prices came down.They didn't have the cool oscilloscope though. :( Does anyone here remember when FM stations did stereo simulcasts of TV events because they offered higher fidelity stereo sound? I remember them lasting into the 90's here in the NYC market. Even with MTS stereo, NTSC TV audio didn't have the frequency response of a FM stereo radio station.

@DimensionDude 5 лет назад

My local TV cable service had stereo simulcast on FM through the cable of MTV back in the 1990s, when MTV actually showed music videos.

@5roundsrapid263 5 лет назад

I remember PBS simulcasting on FM up into the early ‘90s.

@ianhelps3749 5 лет назад

Yes. Back in 1982 BBC showed the film "Tommy", and the soundtrack was simultaneously broadcast on Radio 1 FM. I don't know if it was ever done again.

@joeblankenship377 3 года назад

That would've been awesome to serve as a Picture-In-Picture back in the day. You could flip channels on the main TV during a commercial break and see when the commercials are over on the stereo.

@saiforos7928 4 года назад

your cruise joke became a lot more topical

@litigioussociety4249 5 лет назад

Almost everyone in the late 80s and sometimes even in the early 90s had one of those small black and white TVs (13 inch were the most common) they used as an extra TV, usually in their kitchen, a bedroom, basement, etc. They were well suited for watching things like classic sitcoms and MTV. They were also convenient, because they used the Ohm connectors (screws,) so a kid could connect up a coat hanger to them to watch broadcast television. Unfortunately in the 2000s, everything converted to digital, so the coat hanger thing won't work anymore, and even antennas with a digital converter aren't very effective, because they can't display a weak signal.

@gwishart 5 лет назад

They were also quite popular in student digs right up until the early 2000s - since the licences for black and white TVs were about half the price of colour ones. Lots of extra cash to spend on Pot Noodles and WKD.

@olli_k 5 лет назад

Oh how i miss the days of when I had my little B&W tv. I remember staying up late and watching Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, David Letterman, Maude, Fish and then the "Bedtime Movies" with the bedtime movie hostesses. All of this was from an independent station, not a network affiliate. They played whatever they wanted. And they really didn't censor out much. Then on Saturdays it was old episodes of Tarzan, Three Stooges, wrestling and then Godzilla movies every Saturday from that same station. My little B&W tv started to give up the ghost after five or so years. It got to a point that i could turn it on, go to the kitchen and make a bowl of popcorn and a sandwich before it was done warming up and displaying a picture full screen. It finally gave up the ghost and I ended up getting a smaller color tv. It just wasn't the same.

@Themanwithnoscreenname 5 лет назад

It's like the Reese's chocolate peanut butter cup of electronics. "You TV in my hi-fi component!" "You got hi-fi component in my TV!"

@sweethomeboston2720 5 лет назад

Great comment--very funny. Since a lot of people will LOL over this, you might want to edit it and put in the word "got" in the first line where you left it out: "You _______ TV in my

@dougbrowning82 5 лет назад

These devices were made by Sony and Matsushita/Panasonic, companies known to make both TV and Hi-Fi products. It's only natural they'd come up with a TV device for Hi-Fi systems.

@mr.y.mysterious.video1 5 лет назад

Does that mean while watching it you get a distinct taste of vomit in your mouth?

@brianolson6366 3 года назад

I vividly remember watching my black and white tv in my bedroom late at night when I was supposed to be asleep.

@SlyEcho 5 лет назад

Well, I have a DVD player in my stack for playing CD's, so maybe it's a good match for that.

@Coineno 5 лет назад

Hi Techmoan Thanks for this video, did not even know this tv (stereo rack style) existed. And lucky me, I managed to win one on Yahoo Japan for just 60 Euro Sony VTM5

@metalheadmalta 5 лет назад

At 5:30.. I WANTED that unit. :-) Great video, thanks! The outros were hilarious... and keep the videos LONG please!

@ColdInferno 5 лет назад

If you’re re-uploading then i’m rewatching. Losing views is never fun.

@MrGeocidal 5 лет назад

I thought I was the only one who loved small CRT televisions!

@onometre 4 года назад

every time I find a portable TV at a thrift store its an instabuy

@rubeusvombatus 3 года назад

This was the last apperance of the real Mat before he died of CRT, as fake Mat (or Fat for short) stated his channel was bought by Sony in their endless efforts to appeal to the RU-vid demographic, whatever that is....

@lorenmars8181 5 лет назад

I like the most ODD and RARE stuff. Fun to learn from you. Looking forward to the next episode. I understand your space constraints but, could you feature the console stereo? Not a history lesson, really. Just an old Zenith Behemoth-tron. I have a 1966 Zenith console AM/FM Phono. Tube drive. A Mid-Mod Danish look masterpiece. Just found a 1950 Zenith porthole TV too. Thinking about restoring it. Thanks man........

@spuds6423 5 лет назад

I guess that is the unit Trevor Horn of the Buggles refers to in "Video Killed the Radio Star"... Ironically the first video played on MTV.

@spuds6423 4 года назад

@surfitlive I knew it!!!!😄😄😄😄😄

@InimicusSolitus 5 лет назад

When I was around 13 years old, our main TV was a black and white 21". I remember we actually borrowed a colour TV one time to watch a special event. Later we did upgrade to colour in the living room. I did eventually get a tiny black and white TV in my bedroom.

@user-s1o3nr532 3 года назад

I had one of these - made by Panasonic. I picked it up second-hand, possibly even free - I can't think what happened to it though

@ChamplainValleyRailSnapshots 5 лет назад

The screen looks like something that came right out of Fallout.

@tpommischiefmaker 4 года назад

Well, yeah. The TVs and monitors in Fallout are all based on old-school CRTs. Some even use the exact same designs as ones that have actually existed, most notably the Philco Predicta.

@chrissalter9916 3 года назад

That's because the game has a divergence that takes place in the 1960s

@kFY514 4 месяца назад

I'm surprised you didn't mention this in your recent video about its Sony equivalent.

@1001hifi 5 лет назад

A similar TV receiver, the National Panasonic TR565G, was once advertised as "The first TV in the U.K. designed as a Hi Fi component"

@tind33p 3 года назад

I miss finding Black and White TVs roadside. They were a lot easier to modify and experiment on. wobblescopes and stuff.

@ZipplyZane 5 лет назад

My grandparents had a radio that also let you switch to VHF mode. But they didn't give it a screen. And you could only use its included antenna. Still, I remember tuning in and listening to Wheel of Fortune, exactly the wrong kind of show to just listen to.

@VectraQS 5 лет назад

Some early episodes of Wheel of Fortune (1975-ish) have survived... on audiotape. Fortunately, a few individuals have undertaken the work to reconstruct the footage to make it at least semi-watchable.

@5roundsrapid263 5 лет назад

I think you’re talking about a scanner. We had one when I was a kid. I hooked up an old rooftop antenna and could get analog cordless phones...😄

@dougbrowning82 5 лет назад

Too bad that mode was rendered obsolete by the switch to digital TV. I have a Venturer miltiband with a TV band (actually two bands, VHF low and VHF high).

@ZipplyZane 5 лет назад

Doug Browning I haven't checked in a while, but there was a point after the move to digital that we could pick up a single, very local station, the same one that would simulcast the local FM station if it didn't have other programming. Was there any sort of exception for local stations for small local stations?

@5roundsrapid263 5 лет назад

ZipplyZane That was probably a “nightlight” station; each market had one for a month. All low power stations didn’t have to switch until 2017.

@QraQrJaq 3 года назад

How have I never heard of JCPenny electronics made by Technics??

@MrDuncl 5 лет назад

That explains the Montgomery ward Music centre with a built in TV. Unlike a portable TV I couldn't understand the point of it. Anyone else remember the top end Sony Profeel TVs. They thought that if they made it from components like a HiFi they could charge a premium price. Regarding Portable Colour TVs, back in 1980 the department I was in at work, who already had a Commodore Pet bought a colour computer to evaluate. Someone was sent to Dixons to buy a Portable Colur TV to use as a monitor. Word spread around site and for the next week or so we had loads of visitors to see the new purchases. About half had the reaction "my goodness a Colour Computer, whatever will they think of next. " an equal number had the reaction "MY GOODNESS A PORTABLE COLOUR TV: WHATEVER WILL THEY THINK OF NEXT" .

@_The_Worst_ 3 года назад

Flippin' eck...😮 All that looked like a complicated mess with all them wires and adapters...💯✔

@robsemail 5 лет назад

My parents were married in 1958, and my maternal grandmother gave them a color TV as a wedding gift. I was born a couple years later, and so some of my earliest memories are of being the only kid on the block who had a color TV at home. I can remember most Saturday nights were busy around our house, with lots of neighbors visiting to watch whatever was in color on TV that night. I can remember that by the time 'Dark Shadows' started airing in color, at least one other neighbor had a color set, and so all the kids would race to either my house or Will and Stevie's house after school to watch it. My first bedroom TV, which I acquired at age 15 with my own money, was a used Portacolor. I loved that TV! It had the best-looking color image you could get other than Trinitron.

@davidjgomm 5 лет назад

"My parents were married in 1958, and my maternal grandmother gave them a color TV as a wedding gift. I was born a couple years later," I guess they were more interested in the colour TV than hanky-panky.

@robsemail 5 лет назад

davidjgomm, they were college students who weren’t ready to have a kid at the time they were married. I don’t want to infringe on your parents’ right to tell you about the facts of life before you’re ready, so perhaps it’s time to ask mommy about something called “birth control”. You’ll need to know about it soon after you reach puberty.

@robsemail 5 лет назад

@Wyberton Cubley what do you mean by "color TV channels"? By 1957, two networks had made broadcasts in NTSC compatible color, and by that year those programs were going out in color over many network affiliates across the country. So there were a lot of TV stations capable of broadcasting color. CBS did very little programming in NTSC color, but in 1954 they debuted their new fall season with a number of color episodes, including an episode of 'Burns and Allen' which you can view right here on youtube. NBC was the only network with regular broadcasts in color at that time, most notably on Saturday night, when people were most likely to be out shopping. By having color programs on at that time, shoppers could stop into their local RCA store and see what color TV looked like (NBC and RCA were more or less the same company at the time).

@Rebel9668 5 лет назад

My Grandparents were from rural West Tennessee and only got electricity in the early 50's. Before that they had the "farm" radio that ran on large batteries. They were the first around for miles though to buy a television (B&W of course) and Mom told of how neighbors from miles around used to show up there on Saturday nights to watch the boxing matches on tv there, lol. Their first set only had VHF. Later they got a UHF add on box. They had a large boom antenna mounted on one of those home towers with a rotor on it clear up to 1998 and I remember having to turn the rotor North/Northwest for CBS in Cape Girardeau, MO, North for NBC in Paducah, KY and South for ABC in Jackson, TN.

@creakycracker 4 года назад

@@robsemail I remember my Mom dressing me up and my family visiting the neighbors to watch NBC's "Ponderosa" on their new color set.

@carlwells9504 5 лет назад

You could hook it up to your B speakers from your favourite Int Amp/Reciever to get those pretty displays without having to run main output through it

@RockyP77 3 года назад

"Like norovirus on a cruise ship"..... we didnt see that one coming did we?

@hmoham 5 лет назад

RU-vid still recovering from the New Years celebrations it seems, still having issues being encoded and now video's are going out of sync.

@Yeen125 5 лет назад

hmoham If I were to take a guess, it’s because RU-vid is switching over to a new video codec (AV1) and are still working out the bugs when re-encoding it to and from h264 and/or VP9.

@10p6 5 лет назад

These were actually made for parents who did not want their kids to watch 'Too much TV' lol. Not mentioned here, is a few Component / stack-able VCR's were also made with built in screens too, some colour.

@ZackTheLightningNinja 5 лет назад

I didn’t hear much of a problem the first time, but this is good too.

@Techmoan 5 лет назад

It only kicked in after the video had been live for five hours.

@j.harbottle8928 Год назад

FWIW I had a b&w telly in the eighties as a teenager, for me computer games and Saturday Night Live - Ben Elton in his sparkyl suit ! It was aJVC w an FM radio, 14 inch

@AtheistOrphan Год назад

‘Little bit of politics’

@Daytona574 5 лет назад

I've run into a few JCP-branded electronics over the years, and have always been surprised by the quality. I initially assumed them to be bottom-rung money makers, but as you pointed out they're OEM'd from respected manufacturers and are quite decent.

@h8GW Год назад

Presumably, JCP was also much more respected back then, too.

@scotttrindl1192 5 лет назад

Oddly enough, I have one of those MCS series component TV's. Exactly like the one in the video. I bought it in the late 70's at a JC Penny catalog outlet store that I went to periodically looking for bargains. I bought other pieces from their MCS series as well, I know I had an integrated amp as well as a cassette deck. I used this TV more for the wave form screen. It looked pretty interesting sitting on the shelving with my audio system components , with the inputs hooked to the speaker outputs on my power amp. It gave a reading of the power output going to the speakers. I don't have the integrated amp or cassette deck any longer, but I still have the component TV. I haven't used it in quite a while but it's sitting in storage maybe 30 feet from where I'm sitting now. I may have to pull it out and see if it still works.

@CommodoreFan64 5 лет назад

I remember in the early 80's around 83/84 I had B/W TV in my bed room, but shortly afterwards it died, so my father got my 13in Sharp TV that lasted well into the late 90's before by brother knocked it off the table in our bedroom, and it killed it. Also my grandmother for many years had a 2nd B/W TV in the sun room where she would do her sewing, and other crafts that she would watch(mostly listen) her soaps on it, or just catch the news.

@s.sestric9929 5 лет назад

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@bryanpratt3933 5 лет назад

I need to know how your brother knocked a CRT TV off a table, even a 13" isn't exactly featherweight.

@ChrisKewl 4 года назад

I made some high-quality GIFs for these and tagged them back to Techmoan. If you're looking for something Twitter friendly or just a bit of snark, here you go! twitter.com/ChrisKewlTV/status/1274175177253928962

@Trenchbroom 5 лет назад

My first TV was an early 70s Zenith black and white, bought with my lawn mowing money from the town pawn shop for $40 in 1984. Took it home, hooked it into the spliced cable (cable splicer and extra coax purchased at the town Radio Shack on the same trip of course), turned it on, waited for it to warm up. "It works!" Tuned it to WTBS Superstation and the Brady Bunch was on. Tube had a faint horizontal line that would crawl up the screen, otherwise the picture was glorious! I plugged my ear plug into the 'EAR' jack on the side, and watched it like 1971. Great day.

@ScottDotDot 5 лет назад

This thing looks amazing. When he first showed it, were it not for the B&W CRT, I would've pegged it as a high quality 1990s component due to the styling. Plus the waveform monitor looks very cool even by today's standards.

@markmarkofkane8167 5 лет назад

Thanks, I watched 12 hours ago before the reupload. It was fine. I was using the RU-vid app, though.

@Techmoan 5 лет назад

The fault only kicked in after the video had been live for five hours.

@ExplosiveAction 5 лет назад

@@Techmoan that's one peculiar fault.

@quansun4634 5 лет назад

I remember buying a realistic vhf audio tuner from radio shack back in the day.

@willyarma_uk 5 лет назад

As far as i'm concerned Jif is the old name for Cif, the kitchen cleaning product.

@willyarma_uk 5 лет назад

Also Jif lemons, the lemon juice that I have on pancake day.

@Best-Match 5 лет назад

Jif is also a brand of peanut butter here in the States

@surisuri8993 5 лет назад

Crikey, I thought it was still called Jif. Shows how much cleaning I do.

@spacemonkeyjim 5 лет назад

jiff is also a image file extension, which is not at all confusing in any way...

@litigioussociety4249 5 лет назад

I always pronounced gif as jif prior to the debate starting around 10 years ago, because that's what the peanut butter is called. Acronyms don't usually encompass the pronunciations of the letters in their words, because then the vowels would be all screwed up, and several acronyms that start with ph, ps, ts, and other silent letters, diphthongs, compound letter sounds, etc. wouldn't work. Also, acronyms starting with things like "ce" are typically pronounced with an "s" sound even when the "c" stands for a word where it starts with a "k"sound, because of the nature of English words.

@MetalGreggNY75 3 года назад

Hey at the 9:15 mark of the video.....that’s Motörhead on that VTR component tv screen!!!!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻💿💿💿🎸🎸🎸🎛🎛

@eNodeTG 5 лет назад

I watched the original and was wondering; How the flippin eck, is the audio, *in a Techmoan video* out of sync?! *_Especially in the all-important outro??_* Is there anything RU-vid and it's parent companies can't screw up?

@eNodeTG 5 лет назад

Well so long as it's eco-friendly air, produced with green energy.. and natural/organically,... GMO free, vegan, wheat free, vaccine/lead free, ETC. and all of that certified, 4 color process printed on an aesthetically conscious label; then I, for one, welcome our new atmospheric overlords, where can I pick up a can?

@zackschilling4376 4 года назад

Speaking on composite hook-ups, I hate how modern TVs are shit for connections, even HDMIs. You re lucky to get 3. I had an Insignia TV I got in like 2007 and it had 3 composite/3 s-video, 2 component, 3 HDMIs, audio in, audio out and a couple other things, and it was a cheaper model. I really miss have those connections. I have an HDMI matrix hooked up now (6 inputs and 2 outputs) which helps a lot. I also have a 4 way S-Video splitter hooked up to my CRT for my old school gaming.

@J0r 5 лет назад

When are you going to start shooting in 4K?

@Techmoan 5 лет назад

2015 It's processing.

@thecheesefactor 4 года назад

I have owned the JCPenney model for about 15 years and hopefully, it is still working. Your video has inspired me to try a few things with it. The step-down converter you are using, does it also convert mains frequency from UK 50Hz to American 60Hz?

@coyote_den 5 лет назад

Wave Form mode seems to let the deflection free-run, which is why you couldn't sync the camera shutter to it.. was almost-but-not-quite 60Hz. That also explains why the waveform display is vertical, not horizontal: For displaying audio signals, you want the slow timebase of 60Hz, not the faster 15kHz. What's *really* interesting is how it appears to be the sampling the L/R input level with each horizontal scan and using that to turn the beam on for L level, off for the axis, on for R level, and off again as it sweeps from left to right. It's not simply using the audio signal to deflect the beam like a scope would. I don't think has an A/D converter, but there's definitely some kind of pulse-width modulation of the beam.

@keithvincenttucker9923 2 года назад

My father bought his first color television in 1987. For years before that, we were the only family in the area still using black and white. He also used to record off the TV by putting a mono tape recorder by the TV speaker. Mostly, he recorded the Tommy Hunter show. I think that show might have been Canadian only.

@davy_K 3 года назад

Why wouldn't anyone want one of these just for the waveform feature???!!?? I remember our main TV being b&w until we rented a colour one. I had a b&w TV in my bedroom with the Atari 2600 hooked up to it. :)

@philtowle4683 2 года назад

I remember my dad calling Japanese products "Jap Crap" as historically there quality hadn't been good. How the tables turned when Dixons used Japanese names Saisho and Matsui for their non Japanese brands to suggest quality. Shame Matsui was the name of a war criminal. Wonder if there was ever a short lived Hitler product pretending to be German for the same reason?

@johnn.4407 4 года назад

I wanted one of these so badly back in the day, but it wasn't at a JC Penny, it was at a mall A/V chain whose name escapes me (maybe a chain by JC Penny) I could play TV sound over my system. Edit: After research I believe it was called "Video Concepts" and it was owned by the same company as Radio Shack.

@owensmith7530 4 года назад

Arcam made a Nicam stereo TV tuner in the late 1980s / early 1990s. It sat in your hifi rack to supply the Nicam sound. I don't think it had a TV display in it at all. Would be difficult to demo one now I suspect since you'd need a Nicam encoder.

@basstedson 3 года назад

I had a black and white tv from the mid 90s till the early 2000s. I got it at a car boot sale for 50p. I still remember asking my mum for 50p because I wanted to buy a tv. She just laughed and said it wouldn't work. The thing still turned on in 2010 the last time we tested it after having been in my parents caravan for years.

@AMStationEngineer 5 лет назад

I'm old enough, to have worked with a great deal of 300Ω twin lead, and truthfully, for VHF television, the pictures seemed far more well defined, with better color demodulation and clarity. For almost three years, the Zenith dealer for whom I worked (part time, while in high school) installed both types of antennas on custom system installs, with the UHF side receiving the 75Ω RG-59CU treatment. (tinned center conductor).

@Skootavision 4 года назад

I’d have given a limb for one of these as a child when they were sold. Love the scope. Do you remember ‘simulcast’ programmes before stereo TV? TV programmes would have their audio simultaneously broadcast on FM radio which was the nearest we got at the time to the home cinema setups that are pretty much the norm now

@vHindenburg 5 лет назад

Sadly my Dads Old Harman Kardon 6500 got busted at the beginning of the year ... was looking for a replacement at the big Saturn in Düsseldorf. The Salesman sad sadly there isnt anything on the market that is that good anymore not to this price.

@kylosalvesen 5 лет назад

I had a black & white commodore 64 monitor in my room in the late 90's. Fond memories of playing Metal Gear Solid on the original Playstation connected up to that monitor.

@Wadethewallaby2001 3 года назад

Due to my autism. I keep thinking. You saying. "Hi-five". & what does hi-fi due? I'm 19 years old.

@Audiorevue 3 года назад

I just turned 32 and despite my relative youth I can confirm that as a child my brother and I did indeed have a black-and-white television in our room as our TV. My parents were older when I came along in fact my dad would be in his mid-80s if he was still alive and because of their age and my moms ever demanding insistence that we hold on to everything we owned and never threw anything away when it came time for my brother and I to demand a television of our own lo and behold we ended up with a Magnavox 13 inch black and white television. And I very distinctly remember when the PlayStation came out my Brother very much wanted one and it was something my father was very much against however through a battle of attrition or year or so after it came out one found its way under our Christmas tree. And I have interesting memories of playing Crash bandicoot on that television. We had some good times

@ziomalisty 5 лет назад

Hey guys, the Flippin Eck GIF is here: The GIF! randomgif.com/156599-flippin-eck-tech-moan

@bletheringfool 5 лет назад

Yes I had a black and white portable TV from Mitsubishi back in the 80s, then eventually upgraded to colour. Had big twiddly knobs. Remember when the snooker commentators used to say 'and for those watching in black and white, that was a red that just went in' etc etc

@SlapadelicMusic 2 года назад

In the 90s my dad had a small clock radio that also had a built in tiny black band white TV He used it so he didn't miss any NFL games while working in the garage

@roachtoasties 4 года назад

This was maybe of little use, but if you had a rack of audio components, adding this created a "cool factor" to your set-up.

@dashcamandy2242 5 лет назад

The TechMoan impersonator that finished out the video was spot-on! The mono audio output jack would be a great way to add in an era-appropriate color organ.

@Iconoclasher 5 лет назад

In your comments about the Mirascreen dingfod having late audio, it's unbelievable this is common on modern flat-screens. It was a problem on early TV broadcasts, but RCA fixed it in 1946. Today with millions of great software engineers, no one seems to have a solution to it.

@flyguille 5 лет назад

mmmm. that must be from the era where the TV stations presented quality and interesting shows/programs. Now, nobody will record from a TV station.

@jenky1044 5 лет назад

That was a good video and brought back some memories. I grew up in a very small rural town (2600 people) in the U.S. and my mom worked at an electronics and appliance store. My parents had purchased a color tv for the living room (quite a few people owned a color tv by then). At Christmas we got our first VCR (we were probably the 3rd family in town to purchase one). I thought it was great to get a 13" black and white portable tv for my bedroom in the late 70's at my age at almost double digits. Also loved your puppet show and the end.

@pauldavis6356 2 года назад

In my humble opinion your estate is worth much more than a paltry few billion dollars.

@jonw.1043 5 лет назад

I love your videos because of your passion for stuff like this. I was born in '85. There was so much stuff in catalogs I saw as a child that I was never allowed to purchase or see. I feel like I get to finally play with those things when I watch your vids. One thing I'd always wanted was a "Jeep Box", which was an LCD and car stereo placed into a toolbox by Jeep (Chrysler). Probably wouldn't make for much of a video though! Anyways thank you for the content.

@marcuscook5145 3 года назад

JcPenney and HiFi.... go together like pickles and ice cream.

@onthejob9153 3 года назад

I cleared out a bunch of those in a storage room of the CBC building in Ottawa

@NigelMarston 3 года назад

This channel is costing me a fortune on eBay. I'm addicted.

@consciouscool 5 лет назад

That thing is cool, it just screams LCD COLOR UPDATE.

@cindydott452 2 года назад

In the early eighties, I had a black and white tv in my bedroom.

@MrSpunkletrumpet 5 лет назад

There’s something so pleasing about tiny crt screens

@rogerm1111 5 лет назад

I was born in the 70s and my parents didn't own a TV. Eventually they were given a black and white one, when my grandparents bought a new TV. It regularly had to fixed and in the end the repair guy said it was not worth fixing any more. This would have been around 1983. My parents went to a local department store to buy a brand new black and white TV. Of course by then in Australia, black and white TVs were no longer sold, but my parents did not know this, so they had to buy a colour one. They are somewhat oblivious to technology. We never had a VCR or microwave for example, when I was growing up.