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stefuel
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Green Harbor MA USA
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You all should take note of this. The sad fact is that you can no longer find a CRT projector and buy it for a investment hoping to re-sell it later for a profit. There simply is not the interest in them that there once was regardless of how good they work. You're fooling your self if you think there is.
I don't know for a fact but would bet money that Curt makes more money on the sale of parts then the sale of new projectors.
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draganm
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Colorado
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| Mr. Green wrote: | | Looks like the head of the robot from "lost in space" |
that's what makes it so cool. I didn't even Know E-home made tube audio stuff?
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Nashou66
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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Location: West Seneca NY
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| draganm wrote: | | ecrabb wrote: | Do you guys actually just "browse" categories on fleaebay? If so, why?
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because searching for Electrohome brings up crap like this
and searching for Marquee is even worse
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Which is why you don't search for "electrohome" or "marquee"... You search for exactly what I told you to search for: "marquee (electrohome, vdc)", which is going to find you every auction that has both the words "electrohome" and "marquee", OR auctions with both the words "marquee" and "vdc" marquee" in them... Unless there's a jewelry maker named VDC or Electrohome, you won't see the auction for the ear rings (or whatever those were), and unless Ehome made a direct-view monitor called the Marquee, you wouldn't see that, either.
Then you can try variations, depending on what you're looking for... For instance, "marquee (9500, 9500LC, ultra)" or "electrohome (9500, 9500LC, ultra)"
If your search has something in common with an unrelated item (say, there's a Cisco 9500 that comes up in your 9500 search, you can except that...
marquee, 9500, -(cisco, router)
That will except any listings with the words "cisco" or "router" in the title.
This concludes today's lesson on search booleans 101. 
SC
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Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
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I believe there was a distinct split between E'home pro and consumer.
Electrohome did indeed make the spaceship stereos and piles and piles of TVs, starting with the 'C' chassis. The earliest one I worked on was the C3, all tube, and right up to the C20, all solid state. I knew those sets inside and out by the time I was done. The cool thing on the console TVs was that the chassis pulled back and tilted up 90 degrees, so you could work on it without disconnecting anything.
Later, E'home had Mitsubishi make their TVs and VCRs for them when labor costs in Canada got too high.
The stereos were crap, but they sure sold a lot of them.
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Mark_A_W
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
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Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia
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| ecrabb wrote: | Yeah, I'll say he took a hit.
$742? WTF? That's nuts.
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Yeah, $700+ is a insanely high amount to pay for an air-coupled non-filtered 8" projector.
CRTs aren't worth squat anymore.
A perfect working XG-LC/G70 is worth maybe a grand, and a late model 9"er, maybe $2k, tops.
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MikeEby
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Did anyone see the G90 that ended to tonight on Ebay?...it went for $1060...with super toasty tubes...Not a bad price not a steal.
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Spanky Ham
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Did the seller renege and list it on videogon or is this the buyer? All I can say is good luck.
http://cgi.videogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?projcrta&1265307468&class&3&4&
| Nashou66 wrote: | | benareeno wrote: | | wasn't it just another longbow? Is a longbow just an ultra? |
Yes, the VDC 8503 Ultra Longbow were made to be used in the Apache LongBow helicopter simulator
for the US military. The facility was being built and during that time i think VDC was working on that 9500LC Ultra that was going to have the extreme geometry controls, something like 25% keystone or something ridiculous like that. TSE was asking for us to come up with a name on AVS. I am not sure but i have a feeling the military decided to go with those instead.
But the main differences in the Longbows than a regular 8500 ultra is it came stock with
HD145 lens's(all clear) a 2.35 anamorphic squeeze ability. A few software changes either on the CLM or the HDM.
Scott gave me the info to turn them back to a regular Ultra. Some other mods on the HDM also.
and the peaking circuit on the VIM.
The 8503 was a 2004 build
Athanasios
PS, And if i did win it id pay you some money to stop by in Montreal and bring that down with the Ampro  |
The one that Scott was asking for a name was for a client in England I believe. Yes, it had some cool geometry where you could make some interesting shapes.
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MaximRecoil
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VDC Display Systems is currently manufacturing a product which was formerly manufactured by Electrohome, yet apparently, Electrohome is still in business? I wonder how that happened? I wish one of the two companies would start manufacturing the venerable Electrohome G07 again.
Also, it looks like Electrohome is still manufacturing CRT TVs. I wonder where they are getting the CRTs? From what I've heard, CRTs are either no longer being manufactured anywhere in the world, or are barely holding on by a thread with perhaps one or two manufacturers in Asia.
Does Electrohome have the capability to manufacture their own CRTs? Does VDC?
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Curt Palme
CRT Tech
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As I said, two different companies. The E'home consumer name got sold to some offshore company years ago. It will be some small Chinese company that churns out crap now, it has nothing to do with that good Canadian company from years ago.
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Elaine Benes
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The BUYER backed out...seller still thinks he's going to get the videogon amount for one, even though millions had an opportunity on ebay and no one bit for more than $742.... I don't understand that logic...
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draganm
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| Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Mark_A_W wrote: | Yeah, $700+ is a insanely high amount to pay for an air-coupled non-filtered 8" projector.
CRTs aren't worth squat anymore.
A perfect working XG-LC/G70 is worth maybe a grand, and a late model 9"er, maybe $2k, tops. |
your bitterness and jealousy of that Longbow is just sad Mark 
almost certainly the same guy after reneging on the e-bay auction, same location/city as the flea bay add. 
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draganm
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Mark_A_W
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[quote="draganm"] | Mark_A_W wrote: | Your bitterness and jealousy of that Longbow is just sad Mark
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If you want to make me jealous, fit 9" tubes and lenses to one.
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Nashou66
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