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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 6:54:34 AM on 4 November 2016.
Vintage Pete's avatar
 Location: Albury, NSW
 Member since 1 May 2016
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Looking to buy old 90s early 2000's CRT TVs for kids games club. I'm in Sydney, Thanks Pete.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 9:00:55 AM on 4 November 2016.
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 Location: Belrose, NSW
 Member since 31 December 2015
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Suggest you put the word out to some schools (esp. high schools) that might be doing classroom refits. Many had 63cm or 53cm TVs installed on wall brackets in every room. Additional benefits - they would have video and audio inputs and relatively low hours. Right now they are all going into skips, they would be happy to see them go to somewhere useful.....


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 3 · Written at 10:47:04 AM on 4 November 2016.
Vintage Pete's avatar
 Location: Albury, NSW
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Yeah , Thats the problem people are smashing them or throwing them out ,, Cant believe their becoming so hard to get ,, their not old !! I
Thanks pete,,,,,


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 4 · Written at 10:45:33 PM on 22 November 2016.
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 Location: Canberra, ACT
 Member since 23 July 2016
 Member #: 1957
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Go to your local "Green Shed" or recycler.
There will be 1000's.
I threw a few away the other day. Took 'em to the recycler in case someone wanted them.
Nope. Chuck 'em in the skip!
Had a quick look inside that skip.
There were some mighty expensive sets in there!

Big big waste!


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 5 · Written at 9:59:00 AM on 26 November 2016.
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 Location: Hill Top, NSW
 Member since 18 September 2015
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I had a CRT TV set I threw out just a few months ago. It was still working... but it had bad colours, probably just needed degaussing. Also the remote-control receiver didn't work.

Replaced it with a cheap-as flat screen from K-Mart. So cheap, in fact, that it has no sound on the commercial HD channels. The sound quality was horrible anyway, so I plugged the set-top box audio to a spare stereo, and the set-top box video to the TV's AV input (so I'm not using the TV's tuner).


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 6 · Written at 1:34:44 PM on 26 November 2016.
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 Location: Belrose, NSW
 Member since 31 December 2015
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Hey, at my local tip I now see heaps of flat-screen TVs (plasmas and LCD) that have been thrown out because they are an unfashionable colour and/or not 4K!

Admittedly, some older ones have analogue-only tuners, but still have component and HDMI inputs. Add a sub-$100 PVR to one of these and you have a good result for $peanuts.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 7 · Written at 4:24:49 PM on 26 November 2016.
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 Location: Albury, NSW
 Member since 1 May 2016
 Member #: 1919
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Hello Everybody who has replied,,,I have a friend who is also a vintage TV fan ,,He called into one of these recycle type tips to try and get me some older CRT TVS,,,,There was hundreds there ,,,But the Guy who runs the place said,,,,NO we are not allowed to sell them ~~~~~~~~ what a waste!!!!!!!!!,,,,In this day and age its terrible to see so many great things being turned into land fill and Cooper wire to meld down,,,,,, I have not tried my local tip at Terrey hills but I will call in there,,,,So I'm still still looking for old 90's CRTS
Thank you all..Pete


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 8 · Written at 9:03:03 PM on 26 November 2016.
Ian Robertson's Gravatar
 Location: Belrose, NSW
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Yes I was talking about Kimbriki tip at Terrey Hills too.

They won't let you just take them away, you've got to be sneaky! My sons snaffled a head from a Holden red motor there many years ago to get their project car on the road over the Christmas - new year break!


 
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