Great example of OLD and NEW!

Just finished rebuilding a 1950 D1615 Truetone radio.  It has a phono input. We have an iPhone streaming Perry Como into the old radio.  That's a 64 year merge of technology.  The sound is incredible.  Hope you truly do have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Old TVs playing like new!

This is actually a follow-up from an earlier post about the old TV's in my collection.  I was finally able to repair both of these Philco sets.  Here are a couple of videos of them in action.    The first set is the rare 1958 Philco Predicta. I was able to locate a picture tube in Washington State.  What an ordeal getting that thing shipped via Greyhound bus!  As far as I know I have one of the last picture tubes available for this set.

This next video is a clip playing on a 1948 Philco round tube set.  Both play beautifully.  You may notice the copy protection bars on the episode of the Honeymooners they fade in and out. The older B&W sets were not able to filter out these new schemes.  I found a copy protection filter to clear that up.  So what do you think?

Thanks for returning to my old blog.  I am thrilled to find this on Google.  I had lost if a few years ago.  There were a number of old photos and memories that I had written about and it was like an old friend coming back for a visit.  I don't expect you to have the same feelings but hope you get a kick out of the old/new idea - especially as it relates to technology. Here is a link to one of my earlier posts - Jesse was 20 when I wrote that six years ago.  Love that photo:  http://kentrundiga.blogspot.com/2007/12/old-and-new.html

See you again soon!