I love TV boomboxes, these were super-expensive back in the 70's but were quickly replaced by little LCD TVs in the 80's. Any kid would have loved to play with one of these. This might have been one of the very first models to be released.
Awesome. Must be a nightmare to repair. But unfortunately it cannot make coffee! Or is that a coffee grinder on the top?
You would have thought they could have made it smaller ..... and colour http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...t-101-micro-tv I actually have one of the "large screen" 2.2 inch Panasonics
Those little screens were the rage back then, we were all patiently waiting for the wristwatch TV and they were slowing moving in that direction! I think that big know is the tuning dial, I've never seen one of these up close.
Does this count ? Some more info about the real watch and the imagined James Bond version https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/seiko-tv-watch A shame the receiver box was about the same size as most pocket LCD TVs.
Not that I know of. It is rather a "because we can" product. Of course there were dozens of pocket TVs from at least half a dozen manufacturers. Mostly about the size of the Seiko receiver but with a screen on the front. Having admired them in the 1980s I bought a Citizen one in the early 1990s. One time it was really useful was during the 1999 eclipse as where I went I was able to watch the TV programme describing its path, how they were chasing it in Concorde etc then see the actual eclipse. It was the journey back from that (10 hours that should have taken three) that made me decide to buy a mobile phone. Even then it was exactly that, calls and texts only. Being able to watch video on your phone was about a decade away. Even now I wonder how the networks would cope if millions of people suddenly decided to go to a remote part of Devon one day (which was the cause of the traffic jam coming back).
Same here. Only Seiko sported that TV model but with a separate TV tuner. Saw that model at Yahoo JP mint boxed for silly money of course..
The Seiko TV watch in the bond movie was "adjusted" with a clear colour picture which is far from true. But still cool
