Who cares if this LG TV is just a 4:3, 14-inch CRT. I still want one. Look at it and tell me that there isn’t a spot in your home for the little guy. The chrome legs, soft styling, rabbit ears. There’s even a little switch that changes the picture to black and white or sepia. It’s all good. Too bad that it’s stuck in Korea and not available here in the States.
If you happen to have a Korean hook-up, you could snag the LG Serie 1 Retro Classic TV in either orange or brown for 249,000 KRW ($216). But don’t expect the rabbit ears and digital tuner to work here the U.S. of A. where we use the ATSC broadcast standard instead of South Korea’s DMB method. You could always hook up a cable box, game system or Betamax player.
That does it, I’m going to have to make myself a retro-styled LCD television.
1) Go (*shudder*) antiquing, find cool looking old CRT set
2) Find modern LCD that fits approximately inside bezel of CRT
3) Hack the guts out of the CRT, throw away. Trim out the fat middle section, bringing the front and back of the case closer together to accomodate the LCD
4) Cut out some height from the CRT casing, to make the 4:3 bezel into a 16:9 one
5) Remove LCD guts from its case, carefully work into lovingly hacked CRT casing.
6) Profit?
How much are the retro tv and how do you order one ?