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What is the oldest tv you still use?

(December 2018)

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CU
Curto21
So I was thinking the other day that my tv was 4 years old and the oldest in my house which shocked me

so what's your oldest tv in your house that you still use
LL
London Lite Founding member
Sanyo 14" CRT in the kitchen which I've had since 2002.
JA
james-2001
We've got a CRT from 2002 in the back room, though it's only used rarely these days (which is probably why it still works).

The monitor for the downstairs PC isn't much newer either, dating from 2003 (and has been hooked up to 3 different PCs in its time)!
DJ
DJGM
I've still got a 24inch Thomson (badged) widescreen CRT that I bought over 18 years ago and it still works as well as it did when I first got it. Barely gets used though these days ... now sat in an upstairs bedroom with my old Humax HD-FOX-T2 Freeview HD (Yes, I know!) box plugged in. Obviously no point directly plugging an aerial in since DSO in NW England.
DV
dvboy
Only have the one, an LG 32" flat screen that cost about £300 back in 2008.
VM
VMPhil
Remember when all noughties electronics came in silver? I thought it made the old grey plastic of the '90s look so old fashioned. But now it seems so tacky!
DA
davidhorman
There were some telly shenanigans on Eastenders the other night. Ian Beale had a lovely off-white "flat" screen that looked about 15 years old, and the Slaters's, though black, wasn't much newer. Pretty sure the props people dug them out of a skip at short notice.

I've got a 32" Samsung Series 9(?) "LED" (LCD but with an LED backlight) TV from about 2008 that I've got no real interest in replacing. Samsung seemed to have the best SD to HD upscaling at the time, and while the speakers are awful it was easy enough - if fraught with terror at the time, it was £900 even after I'd haggled it down a bit and pointed out the price on Amazon - to take the back off and wire in some proper ones.

It would be nice to have a telly with ARC, though. I have to keep changing the delay on my amp depending on if I'm watching something from another source or playing it directly on the TV with SPDIF output (it still handles most files you throw it, though it won't do x265).
JM
JamesM0984
My mum had an early-00s Toshiba 16:9 CRT as her main set as late as 2012, and still had an almost identical model in the spare room when she died in 2015 - we couldn't give it away! It did, however, give a fantastic picture and covered up a multitude of sins on SD channels that today's flatscreens just blatantly expose.

In my house (bought as a direct result of said passing) both my TVs are 2015 vintage, the bedroom is a 32" which I originally bought for my bedroom when I still lived at mum's. The main set is a Sony Bravia 50". Both are 1080p, my lounge isn't big enough to take anything bigger and 4K is therefore probably overkill.
XI
Xilla
I've got a small early 2000s VHS combi CRT set up in my bedroom, simply because it's got my Commodore 64, Sega Saturn, PlayStation and Mega Drive hooked up to it Wink
RO
rob Founding member
Got a Technika 19 inch television in my bedroom that acts as a second screen for my desktop computer.
MC
mccanmat
My parents have still got their Sony TV-122uk black and white. ... I think it’s over 40 years old.... still works fine linked up to a older style free view box that can link via arial only rather than scary/hdmi
NW
nwtv2003
Remember when all noughties electronics came in silver? I thought it made the old grey plastic of the '90s look so old fashioned. But now it seems so tacky!


Not quite a TV but I have a Pacific (Asda) VCR from 2003 boxed up somewhere. Last I checked it a couple of months ago the silver was starting to look a bit off, more so on the remote control.

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