I picked up this beauty last year, a stunning example of cool electronics, the Sony Trinitron "Essen" Model KV-4100. It was the second generation preceded by the Sony KV-4000, the main difference is the addition of the mono micro-cassette player on the base. The KV 4000 was the smallest portable CRT color screen at the time at 3.7" diagonal. There is very little information on the net of this model, most likely sold to executives for desk eye candy similar to the other models I posted. The KV-4100 is heavy and all logic control with the exception of the eject button and screen tilt button. There's audio/video in/out jacks on the back but it really sounds and looks great as a stand alone, in fact the audio is really nice for the size of it, I'm cranking 80's YouTube Music Videos and loving it. Everything on it is robust, the metal skin and thick metal ribs that run alone the side look good and still shine after close to 40 years, unfortunately the tape deck needs a belting but out of the ton of microcassette players I own, they all needed a belt. I found a cool link on micro TVs, this is very well put together and has a lot of information and history of these wonders of electronics. https://visions4netjournal.com/page-two/
WOW...just, wow! I love that you cracked the code; I had given up on my Watchman, etc, ever working again. This is a great hack, thank you for figuring it out.
Here's a cool one I picked up a few years ago, the Trident P-1010TV made in Japan. It also says Sanyei Electronics Corporation if anybody is doing any research. Trident was a smaller boombox manufacturer but they had some really cool large boomers that have stood the test of time. This is the only one of this model I've ever seen, the label is in English but I've never seen any ads for it. The little guy has some interesting feature like a MIC and a stereo light, maybe it plays the radio in stereo? I'm working on some paperwork so I don't have time to fire it up. While the TV dial is on the front panel under the screen, the full band radio dial is on the top.
Since this seems to be the thread for Micro TVs I guess it is the best place to post this advert from 1986. By the time you added some accessories it was the equivalent of £330 in 2020 money. Money I was far more keen to spend on a freezer back then. I think I actually have the Radio Shack / Realistic AKA of one of them now. The optional backlight unit is an incandescent bulb in a plastic housing with separate batteries.
Nice it looks like the little Radio Shack I have. That was truely a special time when we had all of these amazing gadgets.
It took a few years of looking but I've finally found the JVC Twinch (P-100AE), this is one of the hardest to find micro-TVs and one of the best looking. I'm not sure if they put "Twinch" on the box because it's not on the TV anywhere. Check out the speaker, it's in the middle, the tuning dial rotates around it! I've paired it with the matching JVC MR-200 Mini Boombox, just like the ad found in this thread. https://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/ultra-mini-jvc-mr-200.3283/ This site shows a few more photos with all of the stuff that came with it. https://www.thestandalone.com/produ...-miniature-tiny-television-tv-set-radio-am-fm
The top one of these in a 1987 catalogue seems to tick all the boxes but from the price I suspect it was "Jack of all Trades - Master of None". It wouldn't surprise me if the "Noise Reduction System" was on the TV. In the same catalogue there was a 5.5" Colour set for £190 while for £150 there was a 14" Colour set.
They started cranking them out in the mid-80's, I've got an Emerson Version which is a pretty nice build but some of these are super-lightweights.
I can't believe I haven't added to this in close to two years, here's a cool one, sorry I didn't fire up the transmitter but it looks like it's fully functional. A little beat up, the Sanyo TPM-2570S known as the "Binoc," Sears (department store) also had a version. Mine's a little rough, I can't find my goo-gone to get rid of the tape residue on top. AM/FM radio and an external antenna jack means I can play a VCR through it! Oddly it has TV settings for US, UK, and EUR, I didn't know it was that easy to switch between them.
Another nugget, also from Sanyo and a little more sophisticated looking, the Sanyo TMP-2100 with a date stamp from 1979. I'm assuming the charging function works with an optional battery pack? Anybody know? I love these kickstand models and the tiny controls.
Some more of my 80's collection, the Realistic (Radio Shack) Pocketvision 3 made in Japan, this is really "gadgety" and super cool, it would have fit perfectly in a pocket. From 87, the Sony FD-10A, then the Sony FD-18A from 1985, the silver Sony FD-20A from 1984 is nearly identical except for some cosmetic changes. The Casio TV-970B has that new screen technology, it's a little lower on build quality but that wasn't the point, Casio started to dominate the market with these cheaper versions. The Casio does have the automatic tuning where a line moves across the screen until a channel is found. It also doesn't have AM/FM. I used to find these for dirt cheap or free, I haven't seen one in a while outside of ebay.
Easier on a Black and White set. A slight change to the picture height and a change to the sound frequency which was 4.5MHz in the USA, 5.5MHz in Europe, and 6.0MHz in the U.K. Sanyo were obviously trying to compete with Sinclair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV-1 p.s. In the 1980s at work we had a JVC colour monitor with two rotary switches (probably where the two tuner dials would have been) which could do any TV standard.
I'm sure I have one of those Pocketvision 3 s boxed. It came with a clip on backlight module, using its own batteries and an incandescent torch bulb for night time viewing. I recall a friend hooking up a similar TV to a TV Tennis game. Portable gaming years before the Gameboy
That model was pretty rare everywhere. You realise they were designed for the Jet Setting Chief Executive (like Sinclair himself) and had a price to match; $395 back in the late 1970s.
As young dumb kids, with time on our hands, hooking up any video game system to a small TV would have been a fun evening.
Got this late last Summer! Been looking for a nice one for years this is like new just a bit dusty! Released in 1978 I think...... Sinclair Microvision!
