On Sep 19, 10:51*am, Elephant wrote:

I bought a television "monitor" from JC Penney back in 1977. *The darn
thing is still plugging along today. * *Picture quality is still great
and so is the sound. * It was one of the first stereo tv's on the
market, so the seperation is a bit lacking, but other wise it's still a
fantastic set. * It's one of those that has more inputs and output jacks
on the back than I know what to do with.

I don't plan on upgrading to digital until this gem takes it's last
breath.

Not to p*ss on anyone's parade or anything, but quite frankly, I can't
fathom how anyone can rave over analog CRT TVs anymore. Not when it's
so easy to go into stores and view either SDTV or HDTV over LCDs or
plasmas. It must take an enormous amount of mental rationalization to
rave over old sets, IMO.

After buying an LCD monitor and HDTV STB for our main setup, we bought
another STB for the upstairs setup. Used it with a very nice Sanyo CRT
we had owned for a number of years. But honestly, it was hard to enjoy
that anymore. Even fed from an HDTV STB, so the image was completely
free of any ghost, the image on the analog CRT was so "TV-like" as to
be uninvolving anymore. No definition, grainy, obvious shadow mask,
just unacceptable anymore.

So we moved the downstairs set upstairs, and bought a bigger one for
downstairs.

By the way, neither of the two LCDs we bought was adjusted even close
to correctly, straight out of the box. My recommendation is to start
by deactivating any of their auto picture adjustment gizmos, and go
from there. Ditto with the audio. Don't be discouraged when the
initial image looks totally underwhelming.

Bert