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LG Serie 1 Retro Classic Tv: Everything Old is New Again
January 24th, 2010
So now that you’ve bought that brand new 60-inch 3D capable 1-inch thick LED/LCD television for your living room, what’s next? Looks like the guys at LG are going back to the future with their latest TV.
The retro-styled LG Serie 1 television doesn’t just look like an old set, it actually uses good old CRT technology. No schmancy flat screens here, just a old-fashioned 4:3 aspect ratio cathode ray tube for you to watch your reruns of I Love Lucy on.
The set features a 14-inch diagonal screen, complete with rabbit-ear antennae and chrome legs. It even has old-school knobs for changing channels and adjusting volume. However, this set has a modern digital tuner, composite video for your retro video game console, and a wireless remote so it’s not completely antique tech.
For extra fun, you can flip the television between full color, black & white and sepia tone modes:
The sets are available in the orange color shown above (model 14SR1EB) and a dark brown (model 14SR1DB). At this point the LG Serie 1 Retro Classic TV is currently only available in Korea, where it currently retails for 249,000 KRW (appx. $216 USD).
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A tv like that is really cool! Would love to get one in my room here
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Nice TV, I did not think they still made them like this.
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Nice concept but seriously, who wants an old style tv?
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its perfect for hooking up my collection of oldskool video game consoles. awesome! for only 216$!! too bad its only available in korea :(
Yeah, I wish there was some place to buy it stateside.
Ineed this television! Am I able to purchase it and get it shipped to the UK?
Wish we could buy this in the USA… and that it came in 36″+. My uncle is looking into buying a used CRT because we do not like some of the features of the flat panel TVs — like the life expectancy, for instance.
Life expectancy on most flat panels is actually pretty good. Especially LED backlit models, which should give you 50,000 to 100,000 hours of continuous use. Most CRTs had a useful life around 80,000 hours.
P.s. plasma TVs have the shortest lifespans – though OLEDs will be even worse as they begin to make it to market