The best was when a console TV like this would break down and not be worth the cost to fix nor the effort to move it out of the living room, so it became a stand for a newer TV sitting on top of it.

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking that! Jeff Foxworthy even had a joke about that. My grandmother actually had that happen. I think eventually someone took the CRT out, and even put a smaller set in the console.

@mgrsdgfsdafsdgrsdgfsdg6980

2 жыл бұрын

haha that was the case in my house.

@gavincurtis

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of like mounting your new smaller Starlink dish onto the old Hughes network one.

@vancouverman4313

2 жыл бұрын

There were so many good parts in those TV's when they died I would strip them. Over the years, I made so many neat project with the parts.

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

I had to pay 1-800-xxxxx $200 plus to take my beautiful 36 inch crt perfectly working Magnavox console (wife wanted a flat screen) that I could not *give* away. They sent two bean-poles in a high loader no-lift truck. I had to build a ramp with 4x4 fence posts and almost had a stroke helping them push it up the ramp.

That tar crust is just flavor to a High Life man.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

Hey bro good to see you here, hope you and your family are safe and healthy

Back in 76 my mother worked a part-time job to save enough money to buy the predecessor to that set in the exact same cabinet. She was a big Jimmy Carter fan and purchased it to watch the inauguration in color. One week before the inauguration the set went out. We had used it for about 2 weeks. There was a bad batch of if integrated circuits and since this was the first quasar set produced after Motorola the parent company of Quasar sold to Matsushita. Needless to say she was quite upset and the quasar repair person showed up inauguration day and got the set working about 10 minutes after the inauguration was over. Now that being said the set from that point on did an exceptional job and really required no other maintenance other than dusting the inside out and replacing the channel selector knob. One day while we were watching it we heard a crash. I pulled the back off and the neck of the picture tube separated where it was joined to the bell. It took 16 or 17 years for that to manifest itself. Electrically it was a very well-built set. The flyback was in case in a tin can. It also had a ferro resonant power supply transformer. Everything was typical Japanese quality of the day. The set you have here is a victim of bean counters.

@shango066

2 жыл бұрын

They call the current Administration Carter 2.0. I think this one had the bugs worked out by this time except the cracked solder joints in the vertical

@tectalabyss

2 жыл бұрын

@@shango066 I remember Carter and I just thought he was bad. Now I have seen the top of bad-er Lol. What a mess !

@jmpattillo

2 жыл бұрын

@@tectalabyss Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but I find this a little confusing. Other than a moderate increase in inflation related to the pandemic, the economy is going great. During the carter administration, we had double inflation coupled with poor economic growth, and mortgage interest rates were close to 20%. Things have been going gangbusters since the 2008 crash.

@chetpomeroy1399

2 жыл бұрын

@@tectalabyss I remember Carter's "malaise" address to the nation, and recall him saying that America will run out of domestic oil by 1985. He was a bit of a wet blanket, in my opinion.

@jaysmith179

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmpattillo Economy is going great? LOL, Wow, Do you live in your mothers basement? High gas prices, Food prices up, Open boarders, People going to loose there job because of a shot. I can go on and on if you want me to?

Looks nostalgically beautiful to me, like the set my friend had and we'd play Nintendo on as kids. Cheap, yeah, but the styling feels comforting to me. Never realized there was so much plastic fakeness back then though.

@sheiladawg1664

2 жыл бұрын

I had an entire bedroom set done up the same way. This was a popular style and It looked good at the time but hasn't aged well, obviously.

@videosuperhighway7655

2 жыл бұрын

I remember playing Atari on one of the type of console TV sets.

As an '80s kid, I recognize this. It came from a Smoker's Den. That's were men smoked so much that they could inhale on their nasty sticks, lift their leg, and blow smoke out of their butt. It was also the family room. Your kid too young to smoke? We've got you covered with the family room! It's a smoke chamber guaranteed to make sure your kids get in on the action without puffing of a cigarette! They also make a portable smoke chamber called the family car where no one wore seat belts while you sat in you mother's lap while she smoked! Lots of people want to bring back those days...

@pyeltd.5457

2 жыл бұрын

And the supermarket snd kitchen where the food is and the bathroom where you watch yourself. i only remember people smoking in the pub before they banned that in 2007 and smoking in personal places like someones car or house.

@donbest5024

2 жыл бұрын

This tv came from navy base break room,full of cigarette smoke 24 7.

@robertgaines-tulsa

2 жыл бұрын

@@donbest5024 Oh, god. The military poisoning our own sailors is cringey. They probably have banned smoking in the military.

@basketballjones6782

6 күн бұрын

Ahh, the good ol' days when people didn't get offended by words, men did not compete in woman's sports, and being "woke" was what Mom did to you every morning when she got us children out of bed. I'll take some cigarette smoke exposure any day over the forced spiritual, moral, and character death spewing forth upon the unsuspecting youth today.

Coming from a PAL country, it's always interesting to see what tricks American TV manufacturers tried to pull to keep the tint just right. Each manufacturer had its own system of "Dynacolor" or "Chromatrue" or "Supracolor" or whatever for automatic tint adjustment.

@hifijohn

2 жыл бұрын

Our NTSC is a joke, even now with a brand new TV you have to put up with different tint levels from channel to channel.

@1marcelfilms

2 жыл бұрын

NEVER THE SAME COLOR TWICE

@Mrshoujo

2 жыл бұрын

@@hifijohn I never had that problem.

@greggaieck4119

2 жыл бұрын

SHANGOO66 wat a Kool quasar color Television from 1984

@hifijohn

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrshoujo you're lucky I went through all my cable channels and adjusted the tint until the skin tones look natural, my settings went from -9 to +27.Are you sure you don't have a problem or you've just learned not to notice it.

As an apprentice TV engineer for a Rental company in the UK I used to refurbish our sets. The smokers sets always took longer. We used a spray white foam cleaner on the cabinets and screens and watched it turn an amber color as it slid down the screen....nice.

@christopherhulse8385

11 ай бұрын

Nice

I know the type of person who would buy that set. I picture a grandmother type, with gnarled fingers, and a raspy smoker's voice sitting in an overstuffed brown recliner. And that Tv probably had a large doyly over it with various knickknacks on top. And no, you were not allowed to hook your "Nintendo" to it because that might mess it up, and gramma paid good money for that set! And it was always a "Nintendo" regardless of what game console it actually was.

@dougbrowning82

2 жыл бұрын

These were the kind of TV that would be used to watch Lawrence Welk on Sunday, after Hymn Sing.

@Xplasma1

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougbrowning82 Ha ha ha, I can see that as well. And I bet those impressions on the top of the TV were from a VCR, whose clock was likely never set and was mainly used to get all the Cable channels.

@andrefiset3569

2 жыл бұрын

In the 80's i saw an ad in a newspaper of a company who put a new chassis and color tube in your old wooden B&W TV set.

@DesmondShannon87

2 жыл бұрын

yep this is what she'd watch her "stories" on stories in this case was soap operas

@lynnpayne9519

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the candy dish. Perhaps it was Spanish peanuts or cough drops instead. I have the perfect dollies for this. Not a smoker though.

Repeatedly kicking the TV set to get the vertical deflection working was the best part

@lawrenceharris8919

Жыл бұрын

I agree. That was great.

@jkeelsnc

11 ай бұрын

Kicking or slapping A TV was sometimes the best at the moment fix.

@eric21200

9 ай бұрын

We had the same problem with our old CRT. We had to hit the bottom below the screen, or bang on the side to get the picture to come back.

That would have fit quite nicely in my 1973 Fleetwood single-wide mobile home. Quit hating. 😂

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

Needs yellow/gold shag carpeting.

@BubbafromSapperton

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogersmith7396 Mine was orange & coincidentally got quite a bit of shagging done on it... 😆

@williammitchem8274

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

@@BubbafromSapperton Thanks for sharing. 😖

@shinmalpure2397

2 жыл бұрын

and a extra Vinyl Record Player with Rumors Album lol

Never did I ever expect someone to shout "Whose your Daddy?" while accosting a television set in an attempt to make it work. Classic stuff!

@Steven1Cicero

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in that era and that is what always seemed to work with electronics back in those days until it got broken from the abuse.

I work on arcade games for a living. I've seen dirt and nicotine so thick on CRT's that you could barely see the picture through it, and circuit boards that looked like blankets because the dust was so thick on them. This TV is clean by comparison :-)

@jctoad

2 жыл бұрын

I used to work at a tv shop in the 80s. I remember ones that looked like they were covered with hair inside. That HV would suck it all in like an electrostatic air cleaner. We had a compressor in the back. we would run the hose out behind the shop and blow out the tv before bringing it in to work on them. All filled with dirty connectors, pots and switch contacts.

@lowheadroom

Жыл бұрын

YOU should start a channel. I would watch the hell out of it

I can still very clearly remember the day when my great Aunts Silvertone console died and they could no longer get a wooden console TV from Sears. They asked us to check other places for them. They were very disappointed with the black JVC that we found and the black modern stand. It really did stand out like a terrible sore thumb in their very traditional old fashioned sitting room.

That TV is worth millions, how lucky you are to own the Marlboro man's actual TV that's been in his home for the last 40 years until he passed away at the grand old age of 60

Point of order... The only way a Chevy Citation is a hot car is when you park it on asphalt on a hot summer's day. Or it's on fire. You could also say it's "hot" if it's stolen, but I just checked and no thief has ever selected a Chevy Citation in the history of thieving.

@chetpomeroy1399

2 жыл бұрын

Granted, it wasn't hot, but it *was* the "first Chevy of the 80's," or at least that's what was said on the TV commercials at that time for the 1979-1/2 models.

@linnashton7918

2 жыл бұрын

No one ever reported one stolen either LOL

@steve-ph9yg

2 жыл бұрын

I think if some stole a Chevy Citation it wouldn’t be Hot because the owner would be so grateful it’s gone they wouldn’t report it stolen.

@VectraQS

2 жыл бұрын

Being an '80s GM product... pretty sure that the Citation was easy picking thanks to the poorly designed steering column.

@steve-ph9yg

2 жыл бұрын

@@VectraQS the GM X Car was poorly designed period the Oldsmobile Omega and the Buick Skylark were the best styling of the four cars. It was recalls and bad sales ended the X Cars after only 5 years

In 1984 Italian grandmas loved this cabinet. These were placed in the room with plastic on the furniture that no one could sit in...

@app103

2 жыл бұрын

And all the ugly Capodimonte crap sitting on doilies, that made you wonder if they all contained the ashes of her ancient ancestors. And the bowl of 5 year old sour ball candy, that was reserved for special guests.

@lynnpayne9519

2 жыл бұрын

He needs to use Pledge. That will make it better. Then he needs to spray rose scented Wizard air freshener . On the wall above needs to be the 10 commandments or last supper on a plaque.

@metsrock15

2 жыл бұрын

Literally described my grandmas apartment with her 1982 Zenith also Italian

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

Grandmas of every ethnicity loved this thing. Italian, Irish, German, Hispanic, black, Asian, you name it.

@videosuperhighway7655

2 жыл бұрын

haha I remember that plastic covering on the furniture, it was like this thick vinyl covering. And then of course the old school floor lamps and then these old school console TV sets. Oh and the Capodimonte 🤣

You have to understand back then a set like this was the centerpiece in a person home it was more of a piece of furniture than a piece of electronics.

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, and people bought them at furniture stores. They did finance them just like Shango said, though.

@hifijohn

2 жыл бұрын

@@5roundsrapid263 They also had stereo versions and some were tv and stereo combos, the stereos were barely one step above juke box in sound quality but it don't matter people bought them because it was a piece of furniture. BTW I use to do electronics repair and heaven help you if you had to take one of these back to shop for repairs.

@mjg263

2 жыл бұрын

@@5roundsrapid263 also from rent-to-own rental centers, now there was a chump deal if there ever was one!

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

@@mjg263 I’m old enough to remember the rent-to-own places. Massive scam. They’re still around, but not as common.

@chetpomeroy1399

2 жыл бұрын

@@5roundsrapid263 Back in the day I used to do business with those places. Seedy operations, *all* of them! I'm kind of embarrassed to talk about and remember my experiences with them.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lots of people liked this Mediterranean style for their furniture in the 80's. It was the last of the wooden entertainment boxes. Now that everything is black plastic with no style, we can ask ourselves the question, is this TV really that bad?

Secretly I believe you are mesmerized by the beauty and aroma of this set.

@randymoyer5351

2 жыл бұрын

I agree the way Shango Described the Scent of the Cig. smoke ETC he was Quite Messmerized By it., I have some Computers here i was Given From an estate of a Friend who died from smoking, Man they Smelled horrible when Ran, gonna clean one of them Best i can as Lots of classic games are on it, Wanna Preserve it best i can..

@edwardallan197

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I sensed a masochistic excitement factor as it began to bake.......

it was probably one of the best decisions of my life never to start smoking ...

@williamsquires3070

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that. 🤩

@directcurrent5751

Жыл бұрын

Yet look at the controversy just putting on warning labels.

26:21 "Show me the goods". Absolute Gold. Who knew that you could restore a CRT by kicking the crap out out it?

I remember those years, everybody sat around in front of the TV and smoked, ashtrays were full of cig butts. The big push to get people off cigarettes was just getting started. I was a electronics tech and every piece of equipment I worked on not only smelled of tobacco smoke but required a clean rag and wipe down the inside to remove the sticky yellow tar inside.

One of my best friends, bought a Quasar identical to this one, brand new, in '84 or '85. It lasted for a few years, then died. He still had it years later, with a newer set sitting on top!

The 1970’s and 80’s produced some of the crappiest,ugliest console TVs and stereos ever. I doubt the original owner had to finance the set though,he probably proudly paid for it in “Camel cash”. I can imagine him saying “Get smoking honey so we can get that vcr next”.

@davidball1341

2 жыл бұрын

This is what "Marlboro Miles" were created for. It probably took 5000 packs to get this baby.

@JohnSurf5

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot about tobacco companies rewarding us for smoking more. I remember collecting Marlboro miles. So glad I quit

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnSurf5 Shango did a video about a Marlboro radio once. I think it came from their points catalog.

@anxiousmofo6673

2 жыл бұрын

I took 10 years off my life. And all I got was this Marlboro sleeping bag

That nasty glaze IS good for one thing however. I have restored cars that were heavily smoked in, and the interior chrome fittings are generally MINT under that protective glaze coating! Also I vividly remember the day when my parents bought their first colour TV in 1975, a brand new gigantic Panasonic console. I was 6 and had broken the old B&W tv by spinning the tuner knob as fast as I could. That new Panasonic featured little curtains over the speakers. Mom later removed the originals and made new ones to match the room decor. That Panasonic was trouble free until the early '90s and was ultimately replaced for aesthetic reasons...

@jsciarri

2 жыл бұрын

I was just about to comment the same exact thing. Although the cigarette nicotine paste is absolutely disgusting, it does a great job in preserving whatever finish is underneath. I have seen radios that were nearly yellow in color and sticky. A little Fantastik or Windex cleaning removes the paste easily, and many times the radios look pristine after cleanup.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

True

That dark, ornate cabinet style was very popular in the late 70's and early 80's to match a style of furniture popular at that time (which was itself kind of a reaction to the Danish modern look popular in the 60's). My grandmother had a similar Zenith System 3 (I believe) console bought around 1978. Plastic "wood", fancy "carvings" and lots of "handles" which always annoyed me as a kid since they didn't open any secret compartments. But it fit well in their living room with the olive green carpeting and gold sectional and was a great TV for 25+ years!

@Suddenlyits1960

2 жыл бұрын

“Grandmother” is the key word here...and Danish Modern and all the Jetsons looking modernistic furniture designs were a direct reaction to the stodgy,heavy handed,outdated Victorian,colonial and early American designs that were completely out of pace with modern living. Now the “mid century modern” (a term coined in the 1980’s) furniture is back again. I doubt seriously that we will ever see a time when the style this console exhibits will come back into vogue. I personally didn’t like it when it was new and think we went backwards after the 60’s and have kept in a downward spiral ever since.

@a587g

2 жыл бұрын

@@Suddenlyits1960 you're right in that I don't think the 70's versions of the designs that these TV's tried to mimick will ever gain much popularity. That's mostly due to the poor build quality in both the cabinet and the electronics. Cheaply built furniture just doesn't have lasting value. I think it's possible that Victorian, Eastlake and similar will come back eventually. Early American, which was popular in the 70's is somewhat popular again, as are the light oak pieces that were popular around the turn of the last century. The "American farmhouse" look that's big right now brought those back!

From Wikipedia- Five men who appeared in Marlboro-related advertisements - Wayne McLaren, David McLean, Dick Hammer, Eric Lawson[26] and Jerome Edward Jackson, aka Tobin Jackson - died of smoking-related diseases, thus earning Marlboro cigarettes, specifically Marlboro Reds, the nickname "cowboy killers"

Shango seems to be taking the cheezy cabinet design personally. Keep it coming, that's why I come here! lol

@TechGorilla1987

2 жыл бұрын

It defiantly has him feeling some type of way. I really enjoy his content.

It may be ugly, but that Quasar is a survivor. The Matsushita color television chassis of the early 1980s had the greatest longevity of any make, they played and played, year after year, until eventually the CRT became gassy and the cathodes depleted. The performance didn't equal a Trinitron, but the Sony was sure to die first.

@edwardmills8020

2 жыл бұрын

I vaguely recall that these post-Motorola Quasars had the same white resin-dipped flyback and potted tripler/focus divider as their Panasonic siblings. They seemed to show up around the same time that Sony came partly to their senses and started using ordinary transistors in place of those infernal SG-613 "gate turn-off" HOTs that you had to destroy several of before figuring out what was killing the drive signal, (despite all the precautions, using the big ugly Sencore VA-48 drive/B+ substitution device) and those stupid things cost $24 apiece even back then. Thanks to the Trinitron jug's mosquito lifespan, shortest of any in the industry, we learned to check it for decent cathode emission before going any further in.

@edwardmills8020

2 жыл бұрын

Oh wait... this one's newer than the ones I was thinking of. Got the fully integrated fly/tripler. I always loved the sound these sets made in a garbage truck compactor.

@kc4cvh

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmills8020 Some models had a potted horizontal output transformer. Never had to replace one of those. And yes, I remember the Sony SG-613. The ECG276 substitute never lasted an hour

Imagine what the lungs of who ever owned it looked Like after seeing that.

@stephensams709

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

@gm12551

2 жыл бұрын

Or they are the type of smoker that lives to 100.

@randymoyer5351

2 жыл бұрын

@@gm12551 The Only Smoker i know of that Done so was george Burns , He smoked cigars though, but Now a days Most smokers will not live very Long, Lung Cancer ETC hits Or Pnumonia ETC, its like what ever is Used in Tobacco now is way more Harmful than it May Have been Decades ago, but either ways Smoking is not a good habbit to pick up. ,Though Decades ago it was Like a Status Symbol, hence the Malboro story that was shown.

@volvo09

2 жыл бұрын

That is a spectacular glaze...

When this TV was new, my dad had a colleague who was a heavy smoker. This colleague lived with his father who had a heart condition that required the use of air conditioning throughout the summer. I remember the experience of visiting their home quite vividly; as soon as the door opened, the smell of stale cigarette smoke was like a punch in the face! I wonder what inhaling all of that secondhand smoke did for the old man's heart. That family had a console TV similar to this one. It probably accumulated the same level of internal crust.

@directcurrent5751

Жыл бұрын

My guess is that a lot of people on this channel were second hand smoke deniers. We don't like any of our freedoms attenuated.

@kwacz

10 ай бұрын

but what did it do to that poor air conditioner. bet you never thought of that. cigarettes plugged the coils up.@@directcurrent5751

Here in the UK, when colour TV first came out, my mum naturally wanted a set - so my dad took our then BW set and covered the screen in pink lighting gel. She wasn't best pleased, and dad said, "no matter what's on - you can now see it in a rosy glow" :)

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

Beamer - Wow! I must be a distant relation. To me, that smacks of genius, and sounds like something I would have thought of, or done, were I in the same situation😜.

@jkeelsnc

11 ай бұрын

Good idea. Color sets were very expensive back then. Even in the US color sets were very expensive Into the late 80’s.

I swear that Curtis Mathes rebranded this for their lineup. I remember my Gramps swearing out a CM rep over the phone and promptly shuttlecocking one of these to the curb.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

Shuttlecocking👍

@5roundsrapid263

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it looked an awful lot like a CM my parents once had.

@donbest5024

2 жыл бұрын

We had a cheap Curtis Mathis version of this set in 84 with a mechanical turner in it,had to use vicescrips to change channels.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

@@donbest5024 Match book behind fine tuner, I miss it

@irtbmtind89

2 жыл бұрын

I thought C-M was using NEC chassis? Everyone was making consoles that looked like this in the mid 80s so its probably easy to confuse it.

Yes, this was your grandmothers television set.

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

Gandma packed her own smokes.

I think given the 'wood' of the case, the set looked better in 'gold'.

In 1985 my dad bought a similar tv. It was an RCA. Same size, different fake plastic wood design. I think he paid like 800 dollars for it. An insane amount of money back then.

My aunt and uncle chain smoked since they were teens up until they died in their 60s and 70s. I hated visiting as a kid because the house stunk and the walls were nasty yellow and brown stained. I remember a TV like this sitting in the green shag carpeted living room. All the furniture was this same decor.

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

My parents were chain smokers and died in their mid 70's. After they died, I kid you not, three coats of that paint/primer combo, I tried two different brands thinking one was no good, and I could still see the ghost images of all the picture frames on the walls☹

The cheapening of the interior of this set reminds me of the latter-day cheap tower PCs that use laptop components throughout.

@bwc1976

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes I hate those!

Am I the only one who thinks that this set is good looking I mean call me ghetto but it still works and I think that should counts for something

@1956kirk

2 жыл бұрын

I'd rather have it than a modern flat screen.

Yes, nothing says masculinity like cigarette induced ED. Also imagine what Antiques Roadshow will be like in 200 years. They’ll be freaking out because someone cleaned the cigarette glaze off a priceless Korean TV.

I could easily believe that thing spent about 5 years at someone's house then had a second life at a bowling alley, bar, or something.

@frankowalker4662

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking old folks home, in the day room. :)

@Oldbmwr100rs

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, My dad was a 2+ pack a day smoker and kept his windows closed. Tar was literally dripping down the walls and windows. His old '70s Zenith set had so much crap on just the screen it actually changed the colors of the screen, and yet it never got cleaned, like anything else in their house. When I think about it I'm so glad I didn't grow up living with him in all that. Seeing what tobacco did to him and other members of my family I cannot believe that garbage is still legal, it's an addictive poison that literally had no good properties.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

You have actually seen a console tv in a bar or bowling alley?

@juststreaming012

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavenHiskey I have, not joking, it sat on a custom wall rack.

@DavenHiskey

2 жыл бұрын

@@juststreaming012 non- consol is more logical, the owner must have been trying to impress people but im entirely underwhelmed and all that wasted space

All the Greek and Italian grandmothers had TVs like this when I was growing up, usually either Quasar, RCA, or Zenith (my friend had a Quasar of this era with slightly more conservative styling and baby snot green on the 7 segment displays). Matsushita had a furniture shop in Toronto (which was opened in 1972 or 1973, a few years before they bought Quasar) where they built cabinets and stuck Japanese and US chassis into them (I think they bought tubes from the RCA Canada plant in Midland too). AFAIK everything that came out of there was real wood at least.

That would be a great candidate for the famous Beltron rejuvenator LOL.. only thing better than working on a nicotine glazed and dipped set was when you open it up and found the Cockroaches to go along with it

Talk about Grandma’s Choice! The middle section around the CRT is exactly what the tabletop set looked like. I had one, but smaller. It was silver; I think the nicotine turned this one gold.

80's answer to 60's retro

My Aunt, Uncle and Grandmother had a floor model similar to this they lived next door so me and my brother always went there to watch TV, Hey they had cable then the big Satellite dish. My Uncle smoked Doral cigarettes and my Grandma dipped Tube Rose snuff. Good times !

This is just a Panasonic/Matsushita television which is the company that bought Quasar from Motorola back in the day. These console sets were dependable and lasted forever. The old RCA/ Thompson electronics consoles held up forever as well. Also the tuners were a lot more sensitive compared to the FCC regulated crap of today. The late 90's NTSC tuners were so detuned due to government regulations that they barely picked up descent in a 30 mile radius. My parents old RCA (84ish. era)console could pull channels from about 170 miles away, on an outside antenna. I retired that RCA to the scrap yard working in 2013. That set was on almost 24 hours a day for its whole life.

Cat's like "I'll show up and improve the quality of this episode...sense the TV sucks...."

@oledcrt

2 жыл бұрын

If he pissed on it it might improve the smell.

I worked on a lot of stereo receivers in that era. Cleaning the brushed gold fronts did bring out the silver color and the paper towel used to clean it turned a dark brown. A lot of cigarette smoke and humidifier minerals were showing up on the CD laser assembly lenses and transports. A lot of manufacturer sources hybrid chassis in that era. I opened a Blaupunkt radio and found the insides sprechen Japanese. The Quasar brand name went down with the Montgomery Ward ship in 2000. A customer came in with a new Quasar receiver and we told him there was no warranty due to the downfall of Monkey Wards. It had the same chassis and the problems than the Tomson (French firm) unit being sold at the time.

Those sets were like a piece of furniture. My parents had a Zenith model that was the same thing, but the wood was real. This is so cool, I miss those old TVs sometimes when the tube burned out, you just put the new TV on top of this one, that's how it was done back then. Don't forget the rabbit ears on top. Those were great memories, thanks for this video.

@raestalgia

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, had the same thing too when I was a kid, and even as an adult, I still kept that tv because I couldn't afford a new one. Yeah, I remember trying to balance those rabbit ears with some books, a candle holder, and a troll doll just to be able to get reception to see Mystery Science Theater 3000. Hey, that was the 90's for ya.

This style of console TV looks like early 1970s, and very dated for 1984. .

@pyeltd.5457

2 жыл бұрын

late 70s early 80s

@zulumax1

2 жыл бұрын

It was dated, it was marketed for the elderly population that still wanted a floor console that at least looked like wood. That was the start of MTV, cable TV, and VCR's. I remember seeing these in older peoples homes and thinking, why don't you want something modern looking?

“It’s easy as hell to get these things and impossible to get rid of them”. That’s very true. I’ve seen lots of 70’s and 80’s console sets over the years in thrift stores and they can’t pay people to take them. Most places just outright refuse to accept them,or bust them up and put them straight into the dumpster. I went to an estate sale a couple weeks ago that had several old crt TVs from the 80’s and the people running the estate put them out at the curb with a cardboard sign that read “free” on them. They were still sitting there on the last day of the sale. Apparently someone must have found this “smokers choice” console attractive (or felt sorry for it) because it was adopted. So Shango deserves credit for saving another set that was destined for the landfill. It’s amazing how much smokers tar was coating that thing!

I had a feeling that is how this one would end. I can't imagine just how many cigarettes it would have taken to get a glaze that thick. I get short of breath just looking at that thing.

One man's tar is another man's patina.

Living in Germany smoking is still popular here, but we’re getting to where you are in the USA today. I myself smoke about 30 to 40 cigarettes a day in my house, so I’m used to the “cigarette glaze” in my electronic devices. I collect jukeboxes, pinball and arcade machines, the tar residue in this devices is often much worse than in this tv. To clean the circuit boards I usually put them in the dishwasher with 2 tabs detergent, maybe unsolder some parts that shouldn’t get wet. After 2-3 days drying the PCBs are like new. Nice side effect of this method: corroded contacts in switches, ic sockets and potentiometers are blank like new again. I also had many tv and arcade chassis in the dishwasher, never got problems.

@pyeltd.5457

2 жыл бұрын

das gud

1984? That looks straight out of 1974! My parents had a similar set in the late '70's. They also smoked like chimneys. I am certain the inside of our set (which died in 1983 and became a TV stand for its replacement) looked the same on the inside. My poor lungs.

i once had a late 80s set came in for repair with a really dim picture, as it turned out, the tube was bright and strong but the screen had such a thick coat of nicotine tar, it was almost completely obscuring the picture, just had to spend an hour cleaning it

1:05 - After living my early, formative, and teen years in a home with a succession of weak, worn-out tube televisions, I get PTSD whenever I see reference to VERTICAL HOLD. This view of the VERT HOLD switch with the "MAN(ual) position brings me back to the days when I physically had to sit with my face six inches from the screen (B&W of course) with my arm reached around to the back of the set, manually spinning the vertical hold knob back and forth in a vain attempt to try to keep the rolling TV picture in-frame... I guess that "MAN" VERT HOLD switch position was for masochists who liked to suffer with their face inches from the set with their arms reached around to "manually control" the vert hold knob, ha ha😛.

@pyeltd.5457

2 жыл бұрын

just shave

@zulumax1

2 жыл бұрын

That was not normal to rarely, if ever, adjust the vertical. That TV was broken and not reading the sync signal properly. Never seen a TV with a switch like this one for man/auto.

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

@@zulumax1 "... a succession of weak, worn-out tube televisions..."

@dougbrowning82

2 жыл бұрын

@@zulumax1 Vertical hold was a relic of the old 12AX7 era vertical multi-vibrators. After we bought our first solid state set, we never touched the vertical hold again.

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

@@dougbrowning82 - Good insight on your explanation. I assumed that everyone who watches shangos vids knows about the foibles of tube sets.

That set falls into the "so ugly that it's pretty" category! I'd LOVE to have that cabinet! I'm happy that someone else has adopted it and will do what I had in mind. I'm looking for a 1984 Quasar VCR top loader because that was the first VCR that I owned. I had the silver version, but the faux wood grain one is also of interest to me. If it has the wired remote control, that would be spectacular!

@zulumax1

2 жыл бұрын

I made an earlier comment about a top loading VCR leaving those marks on the top of the TV, seems the right size and vintage.

@robertriley1569

2 жыл бұрын

The top loader vcr on the Goldberg's might be available soon, now that jeff greens a hashtag me as well guy lol

That particular "hideous" cabinet by Quasar has been around more or less since the early 1970's. My dad bought a Quasar 25" in 1976 (1st year of the Matsushita sets). Sharp picture but reds were almost nonexistent by the mid 1980's. The cabinet was similar to this one (also gaudy & hideous). Quasar started out good when Motorola owned it but once it was sold to Matsushita in the mid 1970's, the brand was slowly relegated to being a "value" brand instead of a premiere brand like it once was (when Motorola owned Quasar).

in awe at just how particularly ugly this set is, i love it. the flavour glaze is always a fun bonus lol. good vid shango almost like a comedy show with these sets i couldn't stop from laughing this whole vid thanks man

Judging the equipment for any other time by today’s standards rarely ends well. I worked at a Quasar servicing dealer who also sold Magnavox. The sets were ‘ok’, & about as reliable & serviceable as any others. Made a decent living there, for the time. Based on the available technology then, this set is pretty decent. Obviously today, there are ‘better’ sets.

@zulumax1

2 жыл бұрын

The switch mode power supplies on today's sets seem to fail more than the older analog power supplies of the 30+ year old sets. Don't know of many flat screen sets that see even 10 years of use without some kind of problem, usually totally dead by then.

@pcno2832

2 жыл бұрын

@@zulumax1 I know plenty of people with 10+ year-old flat panel sets; I have one myself. My impression is that most of the sets that fail don't make it to 5 years. The problem is that when they do fail, they are often unrepairable, so replacing a set is analogous to replacing a picture tube in the 1970s. I you limit yourself to cheaper sets, the cost is also about the same as a picture tube.

Thinking about this set from 1984, at the same time frame as this TV set, we were still using our 1969 25" zenith in a cart in our family room as the family set. It worked, but color off and other set was a Sony 9" mom get around 1973 and that was hers, but now used in kitchen. In 1985 the year after this set came out, dad now retired had been retired for a year as an Airline Pilot and one day decided lets buys a new TV set, so we did and the latest and greatest Fisher 25" set which could be upgraded to stereo with a module that plugs into rear and our first latest and greatest Mitsubishi VCR with stereo and all was over $1,500+.

The 'coffee grounds' reminds me of those magnetic 'Woolly Willie' toys we had as kids, where you drag the iron filings around with a magnet to put hair and whiskers on the bald guy!

I don't think I would be inclined to tip a TV tech whose repair procedure included kicking the shit out of my TV. I would have to assume he was trained in the Army. I had a dentist like that once.

@K1ZEK

2 жыл бұрын

That was very funny to see! Not recommended but funny.

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

@Комендант Sixto The part about the dentist is true. Not very many laughs around these days but I will keep trying until YT kicks me off for the 20th time. I think my next incarnation should probably be as a woman. That'll fool them.

@cassandrajoiner9933

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly he hates that tv and I'm pretty sure it's about to become a dogbed. Crt is twacked.

@mikegallant811

11 ай бұрын

​@@cassandrajoiner9933yes Cassandra, we can both agree.... this one's CRT is TWACKED!

"i'd really like to bask in the odor of this thing getting hot," Thank you for the laugh!

EIA 312 = sylvania made CRT

Angry old man yells at rightfully banned advertisements from his childhood.

Is this video in smell-o-vision? Because I swear I'm catching a whiff from here.

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

If you left it in the desert for a couple of years the smell would go away. Then maybe urine smell.

the kicking and beat up part had me in tears,golden material once again shango,thank you

I once paid $400 for a TV similar to this one. It was a Zenith. In 1985. The workers at the store loaded into my truck. Suddenly the Mgr rushed out and said they decided not to take my check. I was incensed! I told them take it back. Then I went straight to a Warehouse store and bought the same set, with a check, for $50 less! 5 years later it wouldn't turn on so I had Montgomery Ward pick it up for repair. It was $97. Then when it was delivered, I turned it on and there was no color. One of the Guys said "He had a color board on the truck and would swap it out for $25 cask". I paid him and he did. It was easier than having them take it back and fight over the bill, being without a TV all that time except for a 13" GE portable. Today I could get a 20" for $100.

I can smell the aroma in my mind's nose. My paternal grandma was a legendary smoker (3 packs a day minimum) right up until her death at 90 (seriously). Her entire apartment was coated in cigarette glaze. When she passed in 2001 I took a few small items to remember her by and they still smell like smoke, which brings back the memories of her even more strongly. Not a great smell, but it has its place. 👍

All the Federally subsidized housing came with these. And a recliner.

@gm12551

2 жыл бұрын

Bc they deserved those items if they were welfare queens

@rogersmith7396

2 жыл бұрын

@@gm12551 Helped decrease the density of lead flying through the air. Movin on up, to the east side, we finally got a piece of the pie.

My father had the base model . They had troubles with the volume step also . He was a repair man . He made it last a lot longer then it should have . Yes he was a smoker . I think the cigarette crud held it together .

I like how every single electronic component in that thing, including resistors, is made by Matsushita

I quit smoking over 10 years ago, but I admit to having a full matching set of Marlboro luggaga, and a Marlboro down parka.

I’m old enough that “filter, flavor, pack, or box!” was drummed into me on the TV. Born 1961. I still don’t know exactly what that stupid phrase means. Filter cigarettes are markedly less flavorful? Whoever wrote it is one of the few people I can’t help but hate.

@cmans79tr7

2 жыл бұрын

After pondering your question a little bit, I'm thinking maybe "flavor" was menthol flavor. Did they have MB Menthol? I, too, remember hearing that commercial incessantly as a kid, also not fully understanding it until now, and also shall I say, not particularly liking that commercial either. Anyway, at least today i think i solved that enigmatic phrase for us😶

Hehehe, hilarious 😂 I remember vividly my first trip to the US, around 1991, and seeing wooden-cabinet "console" TVs for sale in Macy's, at a time when in the UK everything was ultra-modern (for the period!) dark grey, very square, tinted CRTs, Nicam stereo, often with good quality detachable speakers (Sony, especially). The contrast with "American styling" was pretty fucking hilarious. We hadn't seen wooden crap like that since the 60s! Conversely, my VCR, a very high-end Sony model, was cheaper in the US AND had S-VHS. Same basic design, but higher-spec and less expensive. Were it not for the PAL/NTSC issue, I would definitely have taken one home to England with me! The guy I stayed with had a Quasar tv pretty similar to this (except just in a tabletop cabinet) and an Omnivision VCR, both Matsushita, too embarrassed to use the Panasonic logo on either of them 🤣

@stickytapenrust6869

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure about the “wooden crap”, new TVs here were mostly wood until the mid-80s.

Imagine the inside of the home owners lungs from all that smoke. That’s heavy cigarette patina.

There were people who actually purchased this thing and had it pride of place in their living rooms. .... and they weren't even embarrassed - in 1984, FFS. Smokers never get embarrassed, so there's that.

@gm12551

2 жыл бұрын

Had to watch Carson and smoke cigarettes to relax before bed

@F40PH-2CAT

2 жыл бұрын

TVs like this were common at that time and would not be hidden. Don't judge by today's standards.

@jkeelsnc

11 ай бұрын

I can see this being new and just opened to watch 1984 Winter Olympics from Sarajevo. 😂 Jim McKay could be burned into the phosphors. Of course, in the summer late at night you could hear tv’s from multiple houses from in the street proclaiming, “and now!! ….heeeeeeeere’s Johnny!!!” *music plays with doc severinsen and the NBC orchestra*

@shaunigothictv1003

8 ай бұрын

​@@jkeelsncNo Blacks watched Johnny Carson in Harlem, New York in the 1980's. They were too busy watching Black focused sitcoms. When those programs ended at around 8:30 pm people would all sit around and smoke cannabis. I never believed the official statistics for any Zip code viewership given by the TV networks. No Blacks in Harlem watched Carson in the 1980's. - even when Murphy or Pryor were on!

As far as hideousness goes, that, eh, style (Baroque or something?) just doesn't hold a candle to the Mediterranean consoles that were all the rage in the 1970s, with their little molded plastic square panels, even on the sides. But it is silly in so many ways. They went to such lengths to make the "furniture" part symmetrical, then ruined it by throwing in a right-handed TV faceplate that might as well have been from the table model. And, there is so much air in that thing that those fake handles could easily have opened doors to cubbies for VCR tapes, hearing aids, remote controls, etc. I can't believe that by 1984, a space for a VCR and/or cable box (which could have been added if the chassis were raised up a bit) wasn't standard on any floor-model TV. There was a boomlet in sets like this during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with so many retirees buying what they always bought, but the way they made use of the space was an insult to the intelligence of anyone who knew how much electronics had shrunk since 1965. On the other hand, the smoker's patina added a certain charm to that set; if I had the space and nothing else to do, I'd like to polish it up and leave whatever tint was left behind as sort of a historical record of what might well have killed the original owner.

It's T H I C C not T H I C 🌚

Thank God I wasn't drinking my coffee when He played that Marlburo Commercial as he panned past the back side of the TV, As I'm sure coffee would have squirted out of my nose, I almost fell out of my chair laughing! That TV must have belonged to one bad a$$ cowboy!

These days, people complain about a bezel wider than 5mm on their TV. No sign of a foot and a half of plastic baroque kitsch

Hi Shango. I was listening to what you were talking about as I watched the video. And you had mentioned about the banks giving away stuff when somebody deposited money and about high interest rates 14%. Anyway I wanted to add that my Aunt Margaret back in the late 70s made a very large deposit into a savings and loan bank when she received a Sony color TV I believe it was the model KV1920 and it had the rotary dial. She got 30 years use out of that TV without being serviced at all. The picture tube over the last couple of years of course became very tired gassy and weak and I told her just to throw it out I did not want it. So I thought that I would just mention that the bank's back-in-the-day gave actually really nice gifts for large deposits. But our lovely sweetheart United States government wanting to control everything put a stop to all of that sometime I believe in the mid-80s. Anyway just thought I'd throw it out there. Great videos keep up the good work this is part of my Saturday morning entertainment

Gold trim or nicotine glaze? LOL Another Shango066 classic.

Oh wow! I remember being a kid we had one of these in the early to mid 90's. I ended up being used as a TV stand for a while for the new TV. My mother hated it!

I was barely over a year old when that abomination was manufactured. I do remember when I was a little older, my grandparents still had a set just like that and even then I used to wonder why is was designed the way it was. Whoever owned that tv was lucky it didn't burst into flames one day.

Utterly terrible, but I'd STILL rather have it than a modern LCD!

@mike289homebuilt5

2 жыл бұрын

We had this TV in our basement and it worked Ok. I think it was serviced twice . some of these Older year TVs did not have a clear Image. My last HD antenna tuner switched channels instantly but my new LCD TV has very slow Menu and wait for channel to load

This is amazing. I turned one of these into an aquarium back in 1994. My neighbour tossed it out even though it worked perfectly so I gutted it and repurposed the chassis. Trust me though...it looked WAY better as an aquarium than it ever did as a TV.

Can you possible imagine what the room was like this TV came from? Night after night of heavy cigarette smoking and the room just a fog of smoke.

"The CRT has emphysema", best laugh I've had in over a week. Just imagine the lungs of the person who owned that set.

It would be interesting to know the history on this set. Judging by the amount of cigarette tar in there, I wonder if it was a bar set. "The CRT has emphysema." 😂😂

@app103

2 жыл бұрын

Grandma loved her game shows and soap operas, and smoked like a chimney.

@bamaslamma1003

2 жыл бұрын

The fact that the CRT is run into the ground coupled with the amount of tar in there makes me think it was a bar set.

not clean enough for mr. carlsons lab

At 11:07 the cat was disagreeing with Shango and secretly admiring the TV and imagining how nice a cat house it would make.

I had a Chevy Citation, and a new daughter in 1984. My son was 2. My wife worked for Sams, and likely shot the pictures seen in that folder. Actually, life was good.

Nothing says masculinity like inhaling cancerous vapors into your lungs! To think the crud on the TV was the same stuff going into someone's lungs. Now I know why you wear gloves! My grandparents had a quasar console set they got in the middle 80's I believe and it was still in use when my grandma died in 2005. Many hundreds of Wheel of Fortune episodes broadcast on it!

Great commercial for not smoking.

This TV is kinda like something the Griswolds would've bought. It's like the Family Truckster of television sets.

True story. Last apartment complex I lived, when the chain smoker couple left, the crew wore full hazmat suits during reclamation.

@mikegallant811

11 ай бұрын

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