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GE VIR owners? |
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Post# 972970 , Reply# 1   12/11/2017 at 09:45 (2,299 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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I don't know what year RCA began making sets for GE, but the VIR was like the Colortrak circuit. Does it have the blue screen? |
Post# 972973 , Reply# 2   12/11/2017 at 10:02 (2,299 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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what's the blue screen? It's been 35 years ago since I owned it. |
Post# 972975 , Reply# 3   12/11/2017 at 10:14 (2,299 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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I added another, too, from 1977-78 |
Post# 972977 , Reply# 4   12/11/2017 at 10:24 (2,299 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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the screen glass was actually a light blue color. That 19 inch model looks like an RCA product from the same era. |
Post# 972989 , Reply# 5   12/11/2017 at 11:15 (2,299 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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So you think RCA let GE introduce this technology to the market? 'Cause it says that GE is the first... |
Post# 973033 , Reply# 6   12/11/2017 at 15:11 (2,299 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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GE did buy RCA in the mid 80s which is how GE had NBC, so it would be reasonable that GE would use the VIR system if RCA had it. I would make sense that GE would then go to all RCA televisions then. But now RCA is a brand of Thompson (?) and GE doesn't want to make consumer products at all anymore.
It would certainly help to have the VIR system, I can remember seeing color TVs at Hornes' department store where Walter Cronkite was speaking in a vivid purple. I am sure seeing things like this were a turn off, besides the high price, to people spending extra on a color TV. |
Post# 973038 , Reply# 7   12/11/2017 at 15:18 (2,299 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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these TV's were definitely from the 70's; I bought mine in 1978. |
Post# 973362 , Reply# 11   12/13/2017 at 01:06 (2,297 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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There's a 'dryness' to CD's, even 'AAD' ones. I notice it more with classical than with any other type of music. And in classical, those old Mercury Living Presence recordings, even on CD, sound amazing still.
I can't comment about CD or digital audio of today since I'm not fully up on what's current. But I will say that I really didn't like CD years back, and when I got my first good system, it was a record playing only system. Even though CD had taken over. I was fortunate in that I was perfectly happy with LPs made when they were done reasonably well. I'd have been sunk if my interests demanded current releases.
Digital has gotten better over the years, but, based on casually hearing various systems at a local audio dealer, I have to admit I still prefer analog.
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