It was. But I also remember looking down to the cabin in the meadow with a nearby stream and smoke rising from the chimney early in the morning before riding my horse down there. I saw that sitting infront of our radio.
The reason is because they run on valves, and valves require heat. For a TV of this age, you had to wait for the internal valves to heat up and start working fully before the TV tube (which is also a valve) so then you had double the wait as the CRT had to warm up. Around the mid-late 60s, transistor TVs started to be introduced, cutting the warm up time dramatically, you’d only have to wait for the CRT to warm up, as the transistors, which replaced valves, did not require heat. Thats also why on 60s and after TV sets, the sound came on before the screen. There were some interesting hybrid TVs (which used valves and transistors) that used transistors for the visual section, and valves for the audio section, meaning the screen and sound would be synchronised; The sound would get louder as the screen grew brighter.
It was actually shot with Electronicams, which shot directly on film and broadcasted on tv at the same time, which is why the picture is sharp. Look it up, it’s pretty cool.
I still find it kind of magical to see a moving picture and hear sound on a device like that. Moving life inside of a cold conglomeration of metal and glass. Imagine what it was like at the time when TV was new and you had this in your house. It must have been mind blowing.
I'm sick of the world, I went to an alternative reality 3 years ago, it was called sellasillin, I don't know if it was a dream, bit it felt real as anything, death didn't exist, I tried to explain it to them, but they didn't understand, I told them it was like a fire being extinguished. Birth didn't exist, population stayed the same, how everyone got on earth was like what heaven is to us...... a mystery. I showed them my smartphone. They didn't understand at first, but then I showed them the moving images, the sound. They never saw anything like it, they didn't even have any technology old or new to judge it on. When I recorded them and played it back, they were astonished that I captured the real world on my tiny box, and played it back, I'm saying you all don't know how good u have it, u are living in a constant acid trip and have become numb to magic of it all.
@Frank Silvers still analog high definition film has been around since the 1920s. It was not until the late 1980s when NHK invented the HiVision Muse HD VHS standard for commercial use by TV studios, film makers and amateur video enthusiasts
@@pianojay5146 When i was a kid, i'd look into the dot in the middle of the tube after if was shut off.. i was sure the picture was still there, just smaller.
Yeah, It was always warm and toasty sitting right in front of the TV when I was a kid in the 60's. I wonder if that's why I'm bald. I hear radiation makes your hair fall out.
My grandparents had a old tube tv, I could hear it warm up across the room. Picture would roll and Grandpa with hit his hand on it and straighted it out
It's informally called "percussive maintenance" and it was a staple of old electronics. Not a good idea to use it on modern electronics. Too delicate. You may finishing the work for them and having to send them to repair/garbage.
B&W TVs had much sharper pictures than CRT color sets; the color mask obscured a lot of the picture and the 3 color images were prone to getting misaligned.
@@duaneantor9157 - The FCC did give analog TV the same frequency response as FM broadcast radio. But TVs were just equipped with a small mid-range speaker.
People think early electrical pioneers where dum or something of coarse they used mathematics why the surprise technology today is no different using the same bluprint much more brainpower back in the old days
There was a "race" between mechanical televisions and electronic televisions to see which one would produce the best technology. Mechanical tv's had rotating disks and made a lot of noise and of course the picture quality was poor.
I grew up with CRTs in the 90s. Many had built-in warming circuits that allowed the CRT to come on almost instantly. One evening the warming circuit failed in our TV after a lightning storm. I remember it warming slowly like that and my Dad commenting that he had to wait for the tubes in the audio circuit to warm up when he was a kid in the 60s. Now my kids watch on an LCD screen. The improvements in technology through the decades are truly amazing.
Perfect choice of programme to use...."The Honeymooners". I love old vintage electronics, they were classy, built to last and had character. AND they weren't all plastic.
Yu Yu Hakusho or another 1990s anime such as Akira (well, 1988) would look good on a 1949 Admiral TV also. But, I will have to try "The Honeymooners" out, along with "I Love Lucy". 20th century movies and shows are better than the raunchy gross stuff of the 21st century.
I’m amazed you touched that with your bare hands. My parents had an early 70s Zenith cabinet tv and by the mid 80s that thing was giving off such a charge that it’d make your fingers tingle. Plus it had this spooky way of turning itself on in the middle of the night. What I’d really love to see working again was this cabinet shortwave Radio my dad has that lists shortwave stations from North America South America Europe and other locations, but I’m guessing that most of those stations no longer exist
yep, a picture appearing in front of a piece of glass formed from high voltage electrons, and a little 8volt glowing filament see s more magical than little color dots illuminating from micro voltages applied by a microcomputer
We had an old black and white tube TV in the basement in the 70s and even until the mid 80s. It was a great TV to have in the basement because it would keep you warm! :-)
The big tube in the back is the 5U4GB rectifier tube. It converts high voltage AC coming from the power transformer to high voltage DC and supplies it to the rest of the tubes and circuits in the TV.
The old 'wait while it warms-up' routine. Of course it would display The Honeymooners! I wonder if anyone truly appreciates just how much of a _rarity_ this combination is.
I love those old monochrome round CRT's . I grew up on porthole viewing. This model was in vogue as I was just entering the electronics field. I spent a lot of late nights in my laboratory fixing and watching.
I have a 1949 restored Admiral. It has a 17" square tube. Elegant design! Simple. easy to restore. Works great. Found it at the dump, ready to be crushed. rescued & restored it. Rebuilt CRT worked like new.
There something beautiful about these old electronics the way they look and sound, like there alive. Everything now is so cold and cheaply made and if it breaks throw it away and buy a new one.
my aunt had a valve TV, really enjoyed visiting her as i got to watch TV! One day it broke and the electrician was amazed when he opened it, and amazed that a valve TV had lasted so long!
We have an old 50s tv that was my nan and grandads and just found this looking for what TV would have looked like with a round screen (although ours has a flat top and bottom, where there is no image on the screen here, there is no screen)
I saved the picture tube and all the other tubes from a tv set like this 30 years ago. All in a cardboard box. I doubt if anyone will ever use them again.
Both old radios as well as old TVs that used tubes had to literally "warm up" before you could hear or see anything. Notice that the sound comes on first, before the picture appears. I'm old enough to remember this process, as well as how the picture immediately shrank down to a glowing dot in the middle of the screen when the television was turned off. That dot would linger for a few seconds, gradually getting dimmer. As a very little kid I would sometimes sit up close to the screen to watch this happen.
... Good *GRIEF,* that TV console background left looks *very* much like the revolving RCA beast that we had in the 1950's. It took ages to warm up, had that collapsing neutron star brilliant dot when turned off, and reeked slightly of ozone. Peering through the back composite panel's ventilation holes revealed a glowing orange Manhattan skyline of vacuum tubes which, when burned out, my Dad would pull and we'd go to a store and test them, buy new ones, and reinstall 'em ourselves. We got NYC broadcast TV on a B&W antenna strapped to our chimney; I helped my Dad install it. It looked like a box kite skeleton when assembled. I thought Dad was Superman. TV wasn't broadcast on a given channel for hours at a time during both day and night-- instead you'd get that focus card thing with the Indian Chief on it. 2 was CBS, 4 was NBC, 5 WNEW, 7 ABC, 9 WOR, 11 WPIX, 13 NET (PBS). UHF was for the future. Little did that enthralled little blonde boy know that one day, at the age of 71, he would be typing out this *Comment* for the entire world to read on a SciFi gizmo called a 21.5" MAC Pedestal. *-- How cool is that?*
I had one of the last tube TVs, I became very in tune with the warm up noise it made, so much so that if one was turned on at school, before they started using smart projectors, I would hear it and be able to tell you which class room was going to get to watch a movie that day. My mother was also very in tune with it, and knew I was going to play on my original xbox whenever she heard it.
I think these tv's of the past was better then todays tv's with many tv's that are sold today especially samsung brand can view & hear people inside their homes, newer technology of today is not always better..
Es asombrosa la sencillez en apariencia del televisor, también el área de alta tensión (flyback.etc) pero sobre todo y como dicen por allí el alto nivel de definición o nitidez, esto se debe a la alta calidad del circuito y al muy buen estado del tubo de imagen (crt), felicidades y que dure muchos años más. La electrónica de válvulas de vacío o tubo de vacío se caracteriza por su sencillez y a su vez llamativa iluminación que le da un toque mágico, saludos desde Uruguay.
I was five in 1958 and remember an old Admiral TV my dad bought from a TV repair shop. It had a semi square 19 inch screen in a metal gold and gray metal cabinet. It was a "Table Top" model. it was about two feet long. When we'd turn it on it would take a minute for warm up and an image with sound to appear. The thing would warm up the room after being on for an hour. Good times.
I know that this TV model looks terribly antiquated. But this was the beginning of TVs. There would never be flat screen digital smart TVs if not for the old cathode ray models. Beautiful Admiral set.
It looks phenomenal..... When I was little, I looked in electron tubes for electrons that flew between the anode and cathode....I could never see them.
Flashlights have come a long way, too! In a way.... One that could cast very accurate shadows. And lots of little people or drawing paper inside. That's what I thought when I was little. But I knew somehow that probably wasn't right because there was no sign of little people and animals or excess paper!
This reminds me of the CRT TV we had up till a decade back. It had better picture clarity with an SD connection. Now, my LED wants a HD connection for picture and an external music system for audio.
Reparateur admirable , Combien en a t'il comme ça dans le monde, un vrai professionnel c'est quelqu'un qui recherche vraiment les pannes avec passion et tact, bravo et encore bravo !!!
What's impressive to me is a 1950 TV would be able to show an analog transmission from 2005. The digital TV you have today might be obsolete in 10 years.
people keep saying that the tv has a high resolution, no it doesn't even have a resolution because it doesn't use pixels, just some magnets and copper with smart engineering
I used to have a 58 RCA Victor like the one to the left at the beginning of the video. Tube was burnt out and hardly had a picture. Gutted the internals and my friend turned it into a fish tank. I still have an intact 1948 RCA Victor "eyewitness" 9t240 television similar in design to this unit but I just dont have the know how to work on it. I plugged it in 5 years ago and the tube flashed then it went black. If you plug it in now all of the lamps glow and the gun on the picture tube glows but I think there is no high voltage. Also probably all the capacitors are shot. Either way I am just keeping it in my basement for preservation but like I said no chance of it working unless I find someone to work on it.
Ralph bought a TV once in co-ownership with Norton. They started fighting about access rights so he had to get rid of it and we never saw a TV again in the Kramden apartment.
I believe that was "Kramden vs Norton" episode from The Lost Honeymooners. Interesting that the CRT Ralph pulled from the TV set had gone to air, most likely a defective picture tube used as a prop.
I used to own the large RCA Victor Deluxe that you have in the back of the video. My tube was burned out. I do however have a 1949 RCA 9t240 that I need help resurrecting. On the 58 all I had to do was replace a few vac tubes but the 9t240 does not want to even play a crackle through the speakers. It does have all WAX caps but I don't even know where to go with those
When I was a kid our tube tv wouldn't start one snowy Friday early evening. My dad called the tv guy but he couldn't come out. My dad knew the tube that burnt out and took it out and we headed out into the snow to the store and bought a new tube. He put the tube in and we watched 'the wild wild west' that night. A memory locked in my head. You have to realize too that tv antennas would be affected by so many things. Birds, bad weather and the worst thing; a wind storm could blow over the antennas. The real magic came in the late 60's for us, colour tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Imagine the feeling of your first TV in your home. It must have felt like magic.
@Dead Centre thanks for the story! I wish I could ask my grandfather these things but he's not around....
It was. But I also remember looking down to the cabin in the meadow with a nearby stream and smoke rising from the chimney early in the morning before riding my horse down there. I saw that sitting infront of our radio.
@@ProperLogicalDebate wow now that is painting an image for me right there
yeah, now we can watch Jackie Gleason while we eat.
I have my grandparents first TV. This one
Omg...I almost forgot that TVs had to "warm up" before the picture would appear...
Yeah tube tv's from the 90's and early 2000s did the same thing
The reason is because they run on valves, and valves require heat.
For a TV of this age, you had to wait for the internal valves to heat up and start working fully before the TV tube (which is also a valve) so then you had double the wait as the CRT had to warm up.
Around the mid-late 60s, transistor TVs started to be introduced, cutting the warm up time dramatically, you’d only have to wait for the CRT to warm up, as the transistors, which replaced valves, did not require heat.
Thats also why on 60s and after TV sets, the sound came on before the screen.
There were some interesting hybrid TVs (which used valves and transistors) that used transistors for the visual section, and valves for the audio section, meaning the screen and sound would be synchronised; The sound would get louder as the screen grew brighter.
I feel old remembering that.
Why didn't they just use transistors for the video and audio?
I know they made LCDs that way.
Joe Joe I think I remember having a TV like that, vividly.
The picture looks sharp. Who needs HDTV.
really sharp, I am very surprised :D
Especially as it was probably recorded with a kinescope.
It was actually shot with Electronicams, which shot directly on film and broadcasted on tv at the same time, which is why the picture is sharp. Look it up, it’s pretty cool.
It was sharp because they didn't use that shadow mask as in color tv
Is it me or is this better then 4 k
I still find it kind of magical to see a moving picture and hear sound on a device like that. Moving life inside of a cold conglomeration of metal and glass. Imagine what it was like at the time when TV was new and you had this in your house. It must have been mind blowing.
Imagine having a computer in your pocket it would have been mind-blowing
@@HelamanGile Imagine her in love with you. It would have been mind blowing!
@@andricode ??? I'm Asexual meaning I have no attraction to women/men
I'm sick of the world, I went to an alternative reality 3 years ago, it was called sellasillin, I don't know if it was a dream, bit it felt real as anything, death didn't exist, I tried to explain it to them, but they didn't understand, I told them it was like a fire being extinguished. Birth didn't exist, population stayed the same, how everyone got on earth was like what heaven is to us...... a mystery. I showed them my smartphone. They didn't understand at first, but then I showed them the moving images, the sound. They never saw anything like it, they didn't even have any technology old or new to judge it on. When I recorded them and played it back, they were astonished that I captured the real world on my tiny box, and played it back, I'm saying you all don't know how good u have it, u are living in a constant acid trip and have become numb to magic of it all.
@@litcostello1223 hum...... I shall remember
The picture of this old tv is very impressive.
Analog's intrisic properties are more resolution but also noise...
It's all about the signal going in...at least in my experience.
Seems little distortion in the image.
its cause of small screen... my granny had small 12 inch tv and i always wonder how pretty and sharp picture was
@Frank Silvers still analog high definition film has been around since the 1920s. It was not until the late 1980s when NHK invented the HiVision Muse HD VHS standard for commercial use by TV studios, film makers and amateur video enthusiasts
I can almost smell the dust burning off the tube heat from here
Better TV Reception WITH Foil Fedoras! And that whee buzz irritating.
@@pianojay5146 When i was a kid, i'd look into the dot in the middle of the tube after if was shut off.. i was sure the picture was still there, just smaller.
They need to bottle that smell in a can.
Yeah, It was always warm and toasty sitting right in front of the TV when I was a kid in the 60's. I wonder if that's why I'm bald. I hear radiation makes your hair fall out.
Looks pretty clean
My grandparents had a old tube tv, I could hear it warm up across the room. Picture would roll and Grandpa with hit his hand on it and straighted it out
Lol my friends dad bangs on the blu ray player whenever the movie skips XD
It's informally called "percussive maintenance" and it was a staple of old electronics. Not a good idea to use it on modern electronics. Too delicate. You may finishing the work for them and having to send them to repair/garbage.
Grandpa should have hit you with his hand to straighten you out. Lol
In the experience of someone who's been repairing electronics for a long time, that tells me a solder joint was starting to come loose.
@@Kazuo1G no , those TV's were kick start.
That's actually a really good picture! This was expensive back in 49.
The surround sound version was even more expensive.
B&W TVs had much sharper pictures than CRT color sets; the color mask obscured a lot of the picture and the 3 color images were prone to getting misaligned.
@@duaneantor9157 - The FCC did give analog TV the same frequency response as FM broadcast radio. But TVs were just equipped with a small mid-range speaker.
Who uses circular displays ?
That’s right the military
Imagine the amount of Mathematics that was used to design this kind of Television
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People think early electrical pioneers where dum or something of coarse they used mathematics why the surprise technology today is no different using the same bluprint much more brainpower back in the old days
Imagine the lack of grammar that wasn’t used to type this comment.
A lot
There was a "race" between mechanical televisions and electronic televisions to see which one would produce the best technology. Mechanical tv's had rotating disks and made a lot of noise and of course the picture quality was poor.
I grew up with CRTs in the 90s. Many had built-in warming circuits that allowed the CRT to come on almost instantly. One evening the warming circuit failed in our TV after a lightning storm. I remember it warming slowly like that and my Dad commenting that he had to wait for the tubes in the audio circuit to warm up when he was a kid in the 60s. Now my kids watch on an LCD screen. The improvements in technology through the decades are truly amazing.
the picture quality is really amazing
Perfect choice of programme to use...."The Honeymooners". I love old vintage electronics, they were classy, built to last and had character. AND they weren't all plastic.
Yu Yu Hakusho or another 1990s anime such as Akira (well, 1988) would look good on a 1949 Admiral TV also. But, I will have to try "The Honeymooners" out, along with "I Love Lucy". 20th century movies and shows are better than the raunchy gross stuff of the 21st century.
The picture looks surprisingly clear and sharp for a 1949 tv!
Round picture tube yet very minimal distortion
Square picture tubes resulted in the pincushion circuit which stretched the corners of a round picture to make is square. Hence the distortion.
I’m amazed you touched that with your bare hands. My parents had an early 70s Zenith cabinet tv and by the mid 80s that thing was giving off such a charge that it’d make your fingers tingle. Plus it had this spooky way of turning itself on in the middle of the night.
What I’d really love to see working again was this cabinet shortwave Radio my dad has that lists shortwave stations from North America South America Europe and other locations, but I’m guessing that most of those stations no longer exist
If I had a tv that did that I'd be unplugging it every night
Why would it turn on randomly in the middle of the night?
Love the old sets and the shows that were on them.
Have a good day sir
yep, a picture appearing in front of a piece of glass formed from high voltage electrons, and a little 8volt glowing filament see s more magical than little color dots illuminating from micro voltages applied by a microcomputer
I had a black and white TV in my room when I was a kid. It was made in the early 60's. I remember it took a few seconds for the picture to appear.
Within 15 seconds it was apparent that The Honeymooners was better than anything on TV today.
1949 was so far back, that even "The Honeymooners" weren't on the air, yet!
We had an old black and white tube TV in the basement in the 70s and even until the mid 80s. It was a great TV to have in the basement because it would keep you warm! :-)
The big tube in the back is the 5U4GB rectifier tube. It converts high voltage AC coming from the power transformer to high voltage DC and supplies it to the rest of the tubes and circuits in the TV.
The old 'wait while it warms-up' routine. Of course it would display The Honeymooners! I wonder if anyone truly appreciates just how much of a _rarity_ this combination is.
the round picture tube is impressive! thanks for sharing
I love those old monochrome round CRT's . I grew up on porthole viewing. This model was in vogue as I was just entering the electronics field. I spent a lot of late nights in my laboratory fixing and watching.
Our 1950 Zenith "Porthole" TV is a favorite here. Thanks for tuning in!
This is the most aesthetic piece of technology I've seen in a while
I have a 1949 restored Admiral. It has a 17" square tube. Elegant design! Simple. easy to restore. Works great. Found it at the dump, ready to be crushed. rescued & restored it. Rebuilt CRT worked like new.
There something beautiful about these old electronics the way they look and sound, like there alive. Everything now is so cold and cheaply made and if it breaks throw it away and buy a new one.
martinez1701a
Well said! Thanks for watching.
my aunt had a valve TV, really enjoyed visiting her as i got to watch TV!
One day it broke and the electrician was amazed when he opened it, and amazed that a valve TV had lasted so long!
We have an old 50s tv that was my nan and grandads and just found this looking for what TV would have looked like with a round screen (although ours has a flat top and bottom, where there is no image on the screen here, there is no screen)
The first rectangular TV tubes were marketed in 1950.
I saw a lot of old tube tvs in my shop, but I've never seen a round CRT in real life. Thank you for this video!
That is a thing of beauty.
I saved the picture tube and all the other tubes from a tv set like this 30 years ago. All in a cardboard box. I doubt if anyone will ever use them again.
Collectors and hobbyists of vintage TV / Radio equipment would buy that.
📺📻 👺👌
You would be surprised my friend
Maybe. Some picture tubes are getting hard to find. There are hobbyist websites you may want to check out.
i am always amazed by these old Devices.
And don’t Forget, get safe in one of our voltec shelter..
The Honeymooners was probablyvatched on this Admiral TV in the 1950s!
Yes it probably was! unless it was a "Perry Como" house and they watched the other network. :)
Oh. Did not know abouthe competition. As a young child I disliked the Honeymooners because of Ralph's anger.
Robert Gift he was a great singer
Pow right in the kisser!
Very impressive picture and tv, those old boys certainly got the best out of their technology, great restoration as well!.
Have to say for a very old TV the picture is sharp !! Well done !!! I'd make a nice casing for it, vintage style!! Good luck.
The original Bakelite case survived, I was just showing it this was way because it's interesting. :)
Wow. It has a more than 70 years old and still work? The picture is so clear! That's incredible. Good old device. Thanks for upload good old stuff.
That is a fantastic and fascinating artifact.
What a beautiful creation,it change the world ,is amazing how this invention has been modernizing till now ,btw nice video
Both old radios as well as old TVs that used tubes had to literally "warm up" before you could hear or see anything. Notice that the sound comes on first, before the picture appears. I'm old enough to remember this process, as well as how the picture immediately shrank down to a glowing dot in the middle of the screen when the television was turned off. That dot would linger for a few seconds, gradually getting dimmer. As a very little kid I would sometimes sit up close to the screen to watch this happen.
The circular screen is like something from the old Flash Gordon serials.
Look like a terminal from fallout 4
@@versedbridge4007 exactly what I thought. Looks nice tho, I would like to see a circular LCD or OLED screen
Woooow now that looks beautyfull, it’s almost like looking trough a crystall ball.
To think the Atari 2600 is like advanced futuristic technology in comparison...
This is something my grandmother probably had
This beautiful vintage tv starts up much faster than a modern internet radio!
The quality of the picture (even though black and white and a very small screen) is pretty awesome.
... Good *GRIEF,* that TV console background left looks *very* much like the revolving RCA beast that we had in the 1950's. It took ages to warm up, had that collapsing neutron star brilliant dot when turned off, and reeked slightly of ozone. Peering through the back composite panel's ventilation holes revealed a glowing orange Manhattan skyline of vacuum tubes which, when burned out, my Dad would pull and we'd go to a store and test them, buy new ones, and reinstall 'em ourselves.
We got NYC broadcast TV on a B&W antenna strapped to our chimney; I helped my Dad install it. It looked like a box kite skeleton when assembled. I thought Dad was Superman.
TV wasn't broadcast on a given channel for hours at a time during both day and night-- instead you'd get that focus card thing with the Indian Chief on it. 2 was CBS, 4 was NBC, 5 WNEW, 7 ABC, 9 WOR, 11 WPIX, 13 NET (PBS). UHF was for the future.
Little did that enthralled little blonde boy know that one day, at the age of 71, he would be typing out this *Comment* for the entire world to read on a SciFi gizmo called a 21.5" MAC Pedestal.
*-- How cool is that?*
My 50" plasma from 2012 is now just our bedroom tv but still runs like new!
I would love to have this TV, very space looking, awesome
I still have one in my garage. I still wish I had my Hallicrafters TV that had channel 1 thru 13.
Man-cave, not garage.
I had one of the last tube TVs, I became very in tune with the warm up noise it made, so much so that if one was turned on at school, before they started using smart projectors, I would hear it and be able to tell you which class room was going to get to watch a movie that day. My mother was also very in tune with it, and knew I was going to play on my original xbox whenever she heard it.
Even I know TV, I found that really magical 🤩
I think these tv's of the past was better then todays tv's with many tv's that are sold today especially samsung brand can view & hear people inside their homes, newer technology of today is not always better..
I'm not complaining.
ok boomer
@@toddhowarddd lol good one.
I can't understand can you explain it further?
Beautiful and very good you for knowing how to work with it. Just wonderful!
Es asombrosa la sencillez en apariencia del televisor, también el área de alta tensión (flyback.etc) pero sobre todo y como dicen por allí el alto nivel de definición o nitidez, esto se debe a la alta calidad del circuito y al muy buen estado del tubo de imagen (crt), felicidades y que dure muchos años más. La electrónica de válvulas de vacío o tubo de vacío se caracteriza por su sencillez y a su vez llamativa iluminación que le da un toque mágico, saludos desde Uruguay.
I was five in 1958 and remember an old Admiral TV my dad bought from a TV repair shop. It had a semi square 19 inch screen in a metal gold and gray metal cabinet. It was a "Table Top" model. it was about two feet long. When we'd turn it on it would take a minute for warm up and an image with sound to appear. The thing would warm up the room after being on for an hour. Good times.
Congrats this TV is awesome I always wanted to have one of this TV's. I use to fix old TV's not not that old.
I know that this TV model looks terribly antiquated. But this was the beginning of TVs. There would never be flat screen digital smart TVs if not for the old cathode ray models. Beautiful Admiral set.
I remember the high pitched squeal of these old tubers. Now my tinnitus gives me that same familiar noise 24 hours a day!
It looks phenomenal..... When I was little, I looked in electron tubes for electrons that flew between the anode and cathode....I could never see them.
My dad had one of those in his attic and I always thought that was an old flashlight
lol
I'm dead. Lmao
A 🔦?
Flashlights have come a long way, too!
In a way.... One that could cast very accurate shadows. And lots of little people or drawing paper inside. That's what I thought when I was little. But I knew somehow that probably wasn't right because there was no sign of little people and animals or excess paper!
@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 the imaginations we had as kids XD I love vintage, from movies to cars - everything. I wish I can time travel 😌
Who remembers the coin operated tube testers that you'd see inside stores?
Timeless work of art
Heyyyy! Look at it roll!
Now we can watch Jackie Gleason while we eat
4Legacy
What’s a rerun?
Bang zoom
Who the hell is John F Kennedy?
Invite Biff over for dinner.
@@duaneantor9157 That's about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
Wow Amazing to see this Vintage TV 🤩👏👏👍. I'm a Numismatist I like Vintage things so much.
This reminds me of the CRT TV we had up till a decade back. It had better picture clarity with an SD connection. Now, my LED wants a HD connection for picture and an external music system for audio.
Started repairing these in 1959 while in HS.
That’s a cool tv for being round
I’d love to play SMB3 on this.
I'll do it
It's nice to see a lot of these classic tv's still in use.
What a beautiful little TV!
Reparateur admirable , Combien en a t'il comme ça dans le monde, un vrai professionnel c'est quelqu'un qui recherche vraiment les pannes avec passion et tact, bravo et encore bravo !!!
I have a 1951 rca wooden set, with a turntable and radio built in. Was working until a few years ago. Just never replaced the vaccum tubes
A classic TV show on a classic TV set. It doesn't get any better than that.
Pensar en lo genial de la electronica para barrer horizontal y verticalmente la pantalla para formar las imagenes. Grandioso!
Wow even the Honeymooners seem too new for that television.
I cant believe the TV evolved so slow over almost 70 years
From Lightbulb to LED
Seif Al-hinai … How quickly we forget that we were still using "light bulb technology" for TV pictures only 20 years ago.
What's impressive to me is a 1950 TV would be able to show an analog transmission from 2005. The digital TV you have today might be obsolete in 10 years.
Crt not light bulb
The picture is surprisingly sharp.
people keep saying that the tv has a high resolution, no it doesn't even have a resolution because it doesn't use pixels, just some magnets and copper with smart engineering
Discrete lines though, and the bandwith limits too frequent color changes, so they do have a limited resolution.
Thanks for sharing! I used to fix TV's for 20 years. This video is so cool! I subscribed.
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Amazing amount of picture quality for 1949, more than enough to actually see meanignful content. Our gramps were in·gen·ious.
Picture quality is excellent 👌
That's a really amazing picture I'd love to own that set
What I remember of these old Tvs is they don't start up instantly but they start with 12 lines then 11, then, ten.... and finally they start 😲😁
I used to have a 58 RCA Victor like the one to the left at the beginning of the video. Tube was burnt out and hardly had a picture. Gutted the internals and my friend turned it into a fish tank. I still have an intact 1948 RCA Victor "eyewitness" 9t240 television similar in design to this unit but I just dont have the know how to work on it. I plugged it in 5 years ago and the tube flashed then it went black. If you plug it in now all of the lamps glow and the gun on the picture tube glows but I think there is no high voltage. Also probably all the capacitors are shot. Either way I am just keeping it in my basement for preservation but like I said no chance of it working unless I find someone to work on it.
Ralph bought a TV once in co-ownership with Norton. They started fighting about access rights so he had to get rid of it and we never saw a TV again in the Kramden apartment.
I believe that was "Kramden vs Norton" episode from The Lost Honeymooners. Interesting that the CRT Ralph pulled from the TV set had gone to air, most likely a defective picture tube used as a prop.
That's actually a great little tv.
It has an amazing picture.
I used to own the large RCA Victor Deluxe that you have in the back of the video. My tube was burned out. I do however have a 1949 RCA 9t240 that I need help resurrecting. On the 58 all I had to do was replace a few vac tubes but the 9t240 does not want to even play a crackle through the speakers. It does have all WAX caps but I don't even know where to go with those
Прекрасное качество изображения!
Excellent image quality!
Maravilloso aparato del año 1949 marca Admiral, me encanta su pantalla redonda, un lujo en esos años..! .
Esta é muito antiga mesmo e o que é legal é que ainda funciona! Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil
I never knew a round circle CRT tv existed until now!
Looks like the memory scanner from meet the robinsons
The resolution is not bad at all! 👍
When I was a kid our tube tv wouldn't start one snowy Friday early evening. My dad called the tv guy but he couldn't come out. My dad knew the tube that burnt out and took it out and we headed out into the snow to the store and bought a new tube. He put the tube in and we watched 'the wild wild west' that night. A memory locked in my head. You have to realize too that tv antennas would be affected by so many things. Birds, bad weather and the worst thing; a wind storm could blow over the antennas. The real magic came in the late 60's for us, colour tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Those TVs are much better than the ones that make today
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TV that time.
Nostalgia at its best !!!
Very glad Circle TVs never stuck around