My neighbour threw out this old TV the other day, hes an old chap and has clearly owned it from quite some time but despite the fact it works, he just doesnt want it anymore and let me have it for free. its a PYE television based on the Phillips KT3 chassis, it has some devices in it from around 1981 and looks completely original. a little bit of damage on the back, but it all works!

 

I like my old/"retro" electronics and while id love to strip it for bits (messing about with electronics is one of my hobbies), it feels almost wrong to do it, as its 30 years old, it has lasted so long i feel its a shame for something like this to go to waste.

 

It has only an Analogue RF TV input (i know its not much use nowhere days) and luckily the Sky box can output said signal, so i could tune it in on Channel 1.

 

 

 

All the controls still work, the Volume, Brightness & Saturation (saturation is still way off) controls work . Amazingly the Sky remote also works with the TV's IR system.

 

So what shall i do with it? Scrap it? Keep it? or sell it after a bit of TLC?

I'd be half tempted to stash something like that in a box somewhere as might be worth something as a museum piece further ahead in time when we're all having TV streamed directly into our retinas somehow

been using it for a few hours tonight and ive found the 15.625kHz (horizontal line sync) is really annoying, how did I/anyone ever put up with that whine?

Its a collectors item now.

 

 

Around here they come round on Thursdays.  

Its a collectors item now.

 

 

Around here they come round on Thursdays.  

 

Quite right, So its now in bits on the living room floor XD

 

just need to dispose of the scrap, then pull the circuits apart

Quite right, So its now in bits on the living room floor XD

just need to dispose of the scrap, then pull the circuits apart

Rebuilding it?

Something that old needs a 1980s Atari console to play Pong on it

Something that old needs a 1980s Atari console to play Pong on it

see Taylor? I bloody well told you that last night and now you've ripped it to bits

I sitll have the VT220 Dumb Terminal, so i could fashion that into something from Fallout 3 which would look pretty cool!

OT a bit but, hoping to set off an airbag this weekend. I'll keep you posted

I have a 24" Hitachi CRT which is about to be donated to the BHF, if you're interested, along with 2 or 3 15" portables, one with a built in video cassette player  

Smash it up with a guitar!!

I still have my 13year old 32" Sony Trinitron flat screen.

Huge monster - works perfect.

Why throw it away and spend even £50 as a second TV when u have space and use it for free! :-)

If u like tinkering it could still be worth it as a hobby, TV repair man (as some community still have old TVs) - its just the sheer size/weight that put people off ...

I still have my 13year old 32" Sony Trinitron flat screen.

Huge monster - works perfect.

Why throw it away and spend even £50 as a second TV when u have space and use it for free! :-)

If u like tinkering it could still be worth it as a hobby, TV repair man (as some community still have old TVs) - its just the sheer size/weight that put people off ...

SWMBO's got one too, still working in the lounge and a good picture

Something that old needs a 1980s Atari console to play Pong on it

 

+1 and a Comm Amiga 500, and a Speccy

Edited 10 October, 201411 yr by Aspman

Why has no one mentioned FIRE yet?!

 

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

It stripped down into loads of bits now

It stripped down into loads of bits now

U do know the sum of all parts does NOT worth more in this case? ;-)

U do know the sum of all parts does NOT worth more in this case? ;-)

 

not monetary value, but knowledge it is learnt a fair bit pulling it all apart

I still have my 13year old 32" Sony Trinitron flat screen.

Huge monster - works perfect.

 

Snap! 

 

Gaz

Dump it

There used to be a guy who tuned old CRTs into fish tanks, if you dont intend to use it as a TV, you could do that.

 

BTW, I still own a last generation Panasonic CRT, and the picture quality is STILL better than 90% of the LCD, LED or Plasma TVs I have seen, even if they are showing "HD" content.