LizzieMaine
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By the way, televisions ARE indeed more reliable. The solid state units of th late 1980's seemed to reach a peak of reliability, and most newer instruments are pretty nearly as good, cheaper though they may be.
We've had very poor results with point-of-sale LCD monitors at the theatre. They, inevitably, fail every three years. I've never owned a modern TV, so I can't speak to those. But I will say my grandparents' "Works in A Drawer" Quasar was a pretty good set.
In my perosnal experience from actually working on them, the best-quality TV sets were built between 1946 and 1954. Most of these sets had well-engineered quality components, and point to point wiring. The introduction of printed circuit technology and "highly styled" sets like the Philco Predicta meant a drastic drop in quality by the late fifties. The mid-century-modern sets coveted by modern collectors were, from a service point of view, junk.
And no matter what weird voodoo the electric-guitar crowd believes, "bumble bee" condensers were absolute garbage. They not only fail, they fail explosively.
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