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digitalayon
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zaphod
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it's COOL - that's what it is...
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ecrabb
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Holy sh*t, I've heard of those, but I'd never seen one!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_Muntz
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In late 1970, Muntz closed his Stereo-Pak audio business after a fire severely damaged his main offices. He then entered the growing home-video market. During the mid-1970s, Muntz thought of taking a 15-inch (38 cm) Sony color cathode ray tube (CRT) television receiver, fitting it with a special lens and reflecting mirror, then projecting the magnified image onto a larger screen. He housed these primitive units in a large wooden console, making it one of the first successful widescreen projection TV receivers marketed for home use.[3][37]
The receivers were built in Muntz's headquarters in Van Nuys, California. Sony's U.S. sales division was unaware that Muntz was dealing directly with Sony's Tokyo original equipment manufacturer (OEM) department, which shipped him the TV chassis directly.[3] Thanks to Muntz's talent for mass-market advertising and self-promotion, by 1977 the projection receivers were a multi-million-dollar business.[3] Muntz was quick to feature Sony's Betamax as well as JVC's and RCA's VHS recorders in his store, setting up a showroom to demonstrate the potential for a "theater experience in the home".[3]
In 1979, Muntz decided to sell blank tapes and VCRs as loss leaders to attract customers to his showroom, where he would then try to sell them his projection TV systems. His success continued through the early 1980s[3] until he invested heavily in the Technicolor Compact Video Cassette (CVC), a 1/4 in (0.6 cm) system designed to compete with Betamax, VHS, and the Super 8 film home-movie system. The CVC format failed in the marketplace, sales quickly eroded, and Muntz's store closed soon after.[3] |
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the big E
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vintage projection tv at its earliest(almost) COOL
i seen a sont kp series tv with two screens once and was close to getting it(if had a way of getting the huge beast home i would have)it worked but needed a bit of tlc it would have been a antique now(like the one in the listing it is a antique now)i have kicked myself because i didn't get it though(it had the flat screen and curved screen)
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CasetheCorvetteman
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Bet it was nice and bright.... 
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the big E
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I don't know why my iPhone put Sont when I typed Sony weird but the tv I seen looked like it hadn't been used in queite a while but it was a late 80's era set and had two tubes using one lens
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Tinman
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| CasetheCorvetteman wrote: | | Bet it was nice and bright.... |
You know... with that curved silver screen it wasn't bad at all.
Even my Vidimagic was screaming bright on one of those screens.... invisible on a plain wall. 
I used to have a 19" Muntz tube set.... shocked the crap out of me! The CRT had a METAL bell. Good times...
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I remember my first front projection setup was with a 13" Zenith color tv inverted through a Fresnel lens. Good times.
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CasetheCorvetteman
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I guess itd be alot of hours before youd have to worry about uneven wear!!
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the only things that wore out were your eyes 
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digitalayon
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| overclkr wrote: | | I remember my first front projection setup was with a 13" Zenith color tv inverted through a Fresnel lens. Good times. |
Yeah I remember friends in college doing that crap back in 98
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