I used to have an old Commador monitor hooked up to my vcr. It was great, I'd love to find another, I scan junk shops and salvation armys when I think of it but never with any luck, bet you can find one on eBay though
Mine's a Pioneer video monitor--a 25-inch picture tube, with brightness and color controls and little else (it still works, but takes about ten minutes to warm up). I bought it in 1986 at a stereo place. The next year my brother tried to find one at an appliance shop in Houston and the salesman says "Oh yeah, we have monitors," then takes him to a bunch of TVs and starts giving him the hard sell. After a few minutes, my brother says, "I asked for a monitor, not a receiver" and the salesman lamely says, "This is a monitor...a monitor/receiver." The logic of having a picture tube that doesn't duplicate everything in your VCR was too impeccable for the consumer electronics biz, I guess.
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- steve 4-27-2001 6:40 am
Mine's a Pioneer video monitor--a 25-inch picture tube, with brightness and color controls and little else (it still works, but takes about ten minutes to warm up). I bought it in 1986 at a stereo place. The next year my brother tried to find one at an appliance shop in Houston and the salesman says "Oh yeah, we have monitors," then takes him to a bunch of TVs and starts giving him the hard sell. After a few minutes, my brother says, "I asked for a monitor, not a receiver" and the salesman lamely says, "This is a monitor...a monitor/receiver." The logic of having a picture tube that doesn't duplicate everything in your VCR was too impeccable for the consumer electronics biz, I guess.
- Tom Moody 4-27-2001 9:24 am [1 comment]