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The one that got away
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1969 Philips G22K511
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Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Ceefax (Teletext)
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
1970s Lounge Recreation
CrustyTV Vintage Television Museum
Linda Lovelace Experience
Humbars on a Sony KV2702
1972 Ultra 6713
D|E|R Service “The Best”
The one that got away
Technical information
The Line Output Stage
The map
Tales of a newly qualified young engineer.
Tales of a Radio Rentals Van Boy
Sanyo SMD
Disastrous Company Rebranding
1969 Philips G22K511
Memories Of The TV Trade
Crazy house
Dirty TV screens
Dual Standard and Single Standard CTV’s
Radios-TV on YouTube
The Winter of 62/63
A domestic audio installation
1979 Ferguson Videostar Deluxe 3V16
Music centre modifications
Unusual record player modification
B&K 467 Adapters
Mishaps In The Trade
1971 Beovision 3200
1971 Bush CTV1120
Future collectables.......?
Not so long ago, I visited a second hand dealer in town and spied there, a Loewe 26" LCD TV, competitively priced, but minus its remote control handset. The set was, I believe, the Loewe Concept Individual 26, and looked identical to the one in the attached picture;
An unimpressive set by today's standards, with HD at 720p, only one HDMI port, and for all I know, no DVB (or at least, if it does, it's not marked anywhere on the set front), but as a 'high end' model, not too many around I shouldn't think, I did wonder if this might well be a classic/collectable of the future. The sound performance was absolutely outstanding and would probably pass as true Hi-Fi. Appearance wise, it made me mindful of a microwave oven, but then that would also make it easy to wipe clean!
So, I was just wondering what would others consider of today's audio, radio and TV devices likely to be wanted/collected in years to come, or are we so truly and deeply into the depths of a world that couldn't care less, and are we really the last bastion of those quirky people who endeavour to collect, preserve and restore the once ordinary trappings of everyday life?
There will definitely be collectibles in the future, there may well be a problem fixing them with spares and possibly knowledge being scarce. It’s difficult even now to get spares for some items.
Its perhaps easier to get some spares for 50-60 year old TV’s and radio’s than some modern equipment.
Frank
Marcel's Museum already has a plasma screen in the collection, 480p!
http://www.marcelstvmuseum.com/Philips%2042PF5411%2042%20inch%20plasma%20television%2001.html
If my experience is anything to go by obtaining original remote handsets in working order will be the biggest problem. I recently purchased an entire Freeview receiver just so I could use its handset with my existing receiver.
For some time there has been debate within the BVWS about the future direction it should take - even about the name with one correspondent remarking that "wireless" means something very different to a younger generation.
There certainly doesn't seem to be the interest amongst twenty-somethings in the kind of equipment we are interested in but that's not surprising - it doesn't form part of their life story other than a curiosity or maybe a lifestyle choice by them (like the poseur couple I spied on the Nene Valley Railway the other week). But my point is that yes, I can imagine modern items becoming collectable but somehow only the smaller ones!
There is already a developing subculture of younger people (across UK, Germany and USA) collecting CRT TV's and monitors of the 1990s and 2000s, alongside 1980s-2000s era computers and games consoles - the display of these devices on CRTs rather than LCD is more aesthetically pleasing (in some cases the designers made use of the appearance of a CRT display to achieve certain graphics effects).
Collecting analogue hi fi equipment from 1980s onwards also remains popular.
Although (for tellies) older sets are less popular as they lack SCART/RGB inputs (that are used especially with the consoles and 1980s 16-bit computers like the Amiga and Atari ST), there is definitely a resurgence in interest in collecting "older" electronics but it might span the era just after that of most of the equipment seen on this forum..
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