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Originally Posted by Penthode
My CT100 in 2022 cost $100 which seems to reflect a downward trend is old TV prices?
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I have no clue about TV prices, but I suspect they will drop for two reasons -
People who collect old TVs do so because they were buying TVs that reminded them of the time when they were kids and the programs they used to watch on them. They're/we're now getting older and our ranks our thinning with new collectors not keeping up with attrition.
The same thing happened with reed organs and windup phonographs. Reed organs can be had for the courtesy of dragging them out of the home and I'd guess Victrolas and other makes are probably down 70 percent from their peak some 20 or more years ago.
The second reason affects us all - CRTs (particularly early color ones) have a finite life and few of them are available NOS and the ones found as installed have God knows how many hours on them. No one is reproducing them for obvious reasons and there's no suitable way around them. At least with antique radios, a bad power transformer can be bought new or scavenged from another radio, and even IF transformers can be fabricated without too much effort from new parts, and of course the tubes themselves are still plentiful and probably will be mostly forever.
John