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Topic: CTC-131 color television doesn't work... |
Red October
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Views: 3966
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:24 pm Subject: CTC-131 color television doesn't work... |
| So today I bought for $20 a used CTC-131 television from a TV repair shop. The picture tube is brand new, but the set was in pieces because the guy who sent it in for repair declined to retrieve it, ... |
Topic: No More Analog-only TVs |
Red October
Replies: 22
Views: 18007
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Forum: General Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:25 am Subject: No More Analog-only TVs |
| The big problem with 8-tracks that people remember is poor registration creating mushy sound and two tracks playing at once. This is just because soooo many 8-track players are just rubbish. A good ... |
Topic: No More Analog-only TVs |
Red October
Replies: 22
Views: 18007
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Forum: General Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:51 pm Subject: No More Analog-only TVs |
| The major ramifications of this that I first noticed were of things like portable TV sets. Those without antenna or A/V input will become entirely useless when this happens. Granted those are few an ... |
Topic: Some questions |
Red October
Replies: 12
Views: 8700
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Forum: General Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 10:42 pm Subject: Some questions |
| I just heard about laser turntables a few weeks ago. They can be used to play pressing masters and other odd types of records. At any rate, the technology exists, so, many years down the line, when ... |
Topic: Important info so you don't feel like a jackass. |
Red October
Replies: 0
Views: 2374
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:59 am Subject: Important info so you don't feel like a jackass. |
| So it's presumably common knowledge that RCA has never ever changed there remote codes for their digital remotes, which simplifies things if the remote to your TV or whatever goes on the blink, get ea ... |
Topic: Now tell the truth: Laserdisc or CED? |
Red October
Replies: 25
Views: 7780
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Forum: General Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:58 pm Subject: Now tell the truth: Laserdisc or CED? |
| Asside from the much-loved 400-series players, CED is roundly inferior to most video systems in one way or another. Its quality is about as good as lowband Betamax (not SuperBeta), but it cannot reco ... |
Topic: Were adult (x-rated) movies "taboo" on CED/Selecta |
Red October
Replies: 3
Views: 3288
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Forum: General Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:52 pm Subject: Were adult (x-rated) movies "taboo" on CED/Selecta |
| RCA more-or-less shot themselves in the foot on this one. I do believe that they did press some soft-core material, though. I seem to remember reading about a soft-core excercise disk featuring Kitt ... |
Topic: Where did you find your CED Player? |
Red October
Replies: 44
Views: 31490
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:03 pm Subject: Where did you find your CED Player? |
| I read about the technology about seven years ago and some time thereafter purchased my first and only CED player on Ebay, the SGT-250. I purchased a few discs for it, but because CEDs seem to be ver ... |
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