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I remember asking for a color 13" TV for Christmas back in 1988 I think? For months I would grab the Sunday paper and pull out all the ad inserts looking for t
by function_seven 4y ago
I remember asking for a color 13" TV for Christmas back in 1988 I think?
For months I would grab the Sunday paper and pull out all the ad inserts looking for the perfect TV. It had to be cheap; I didn't want to ask for anything crazy. I finally found one that was under $200 and showed it to my parents. It was some unknown brand. It wasn't "Cable Ready", and it still had separate tuner knobs for VHF and UHF. I didn't care, main use would be for Nintendo.
Parents decided to splurge instead and spent almost $400 on a Toshiba unit with a digital channel display and a remote(!). It also understood cable. I could watch Nick at Nite on it when I went to sleep.
$400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV.
EDIT: For a nostalgia hit, I went searching for it. This is the model they got me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15wiYAEOYAE
- listenallyall 4y ago> $400 for a 13" TV, in 1988. That's $1,000 in today's money. A 75-inch 4K TV. Those 1980's tvs could display Knight Rider, Miami Vice, The A-Team and Moonlighting natively, without the need for any kind of streaming service.
- function_seven 4y agoAnother nice feature of that TV was the ability to play the audio from otherwise-restricted... um, "premium" cable channels. Good enough for this 13-year-old. :)
- mgkimsal 4y agonot on demand.