Here is a recent purchase of mine. A Sharp JC-AV1 tv walkman. Been after one of these for a while now. It is in near pristine condition, and fully functional. It dates from 1985. This is a rare red one. The tv is black and white. I managed to pick up three stations on it today. Apart from a small tear on top of the box, it is perfect. It has all accessories, but is missing it's foldable headphones. I'll be keeping my eyes open for a pair on ebay.

This is an unusual walkman. ONLY sharp and JVC produced a walkman with a built in tv. A nice addition to my collection.

I was tempted to buy this also as i have a mint black one but not working BUT.... after reading script it says it only works when headphones is plugged into unit. Hey i thought and tried it and presto it works perfect. Was so nearly going to throw that in bin.

Fantastic unit as i had it for about 5 years thinking it does not work. It shows what i know. Zilch, Zero, Nothing

Fantastic product by the way.

Colin

Annoyingly I sold mine a few years back as I couldn't figure out how to fix it, never occurred to me to try it with headphones in.

a cool little unit,i bet the batteries don't last long?

Annoyingly I sold mine a few years back as I couldn't figure out how to fix it, never occurred to me to try it with headphones in.

"In April in England there won't be any analogue signal for tv so this unit will not pick up stations from then on. Maybe abroad though."

Perhaps bordering on illegal, but with something that has an analogue broadcast tuner like say a video recorder or sky box you could plug a set top aerial to the TV out and then tune the TV walkman to the freq of the output signal. The signal strength wouldn't be fantastic and probably not be in nicam stereo either, but it would still allow use/demonstation of the tv part of the walkman within range of the signal.

yup, UHF singnal senders are going to sell well in the UK soon...