I thought I had a serious issue with some of my collecting habits, it's refreshing to see other collectors out there and seeing this equipment being loved again. Tape decks were always the hardest for me because they are so large and I had to leave a bunch because I just didn't have the room. I was just watching a video on a guy showing off his Sony Indextron Micro-TV, I guess that even little CRT's are popular along with slightly larger versions for the gaming crowd.
We had one of those Sony cube TV's in the kitchen when I was growing up. It got destroyed by something although I can't remember exactly by what. Probably by one of my mums' over-ambitious cheese souffles. lol
It sounds like they had a bad batch of caps so most were recalled and the others that didn't get returned, now need to be recapped.
Sorry if posted already, he just put up this killer Braun. https://blog-goo-ne-jp.translate.go...tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
There is some interesting stuff on the Sharp history website. https://design.sharp.co.jp/design_column/1991lcmuseum Using Chrome I just right click and select "Translate to English". The story of the double sided TV is interesting, although years before that Baird were trying to do colour TV by firing electron beams at both sides of a plate with different colour phosphors on each side. Regarding the 8.6" wall mounted TV I would love to know when I saw Sharp exhibiting a 20" LCD at an AV exhibition. Definitely before 1996. However, rather than it being a "coming soon " product it was a "look at what a technological miracle we managed to make" thing. Yields on early LCD displays were very low and the bigger the display the lower the yield. Trying to find out why I found this https://www.ietlabs.com/pdf/GR_Appnote/Solving the TFT LCD Yield Problem.pdf Of course testing the substrate before assembling the whole display seems obvious but someone had to work out how to do it. The yield problem reminds me of Sony's (in)famous Chromatron display. A colour CRT brighter and sharper than any shadowmask tube which required no convergence adjustments. The issue was that if the alignment was off during manufacturing the only option was to throw it away. In contrast Shadowmask tubes and the Trinitron tube which followed Chromatron can be tweaked after manufacturing in all sorts of ways using magnets.
