Nice german postwar TV on ebay

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Nice TV.

Really beautiful. But the price... oh man!!! THAT's expensive!!!

No German TV sets here... except a Grundig one from the late 50's I saw at the collection of a guy I know. It was working on the American standard, which is the one we use here. Have no idea of how it ended here.

We do see a regular number of German tube radios, both pre-war and post-war.

Only European TVs that I know were imported to Brazil in the 50's were Philips, most likely until 1954, when Philips of Brazil started local production.

Speaking of Philips, what the heck is happening with their DVD players??? In 2004, I bought a Panasonic DVD player. My mother bought a Philips. Both never suffered any abuse. The Panasonic keeps running like a tank. Only problem it ever had was the power cord that was getting too hot, and then I have it replaced. The Philips from time to time "decides" not to recognize the region of the disc that is put on it - it says that the disc ( any disc ) is from the "incorrect region" , which they are not. And so it not plays. We have sent the Philips to an authorized repairman, and... he said that he didn't locate any problem with it!!! How about that???

Last year, my mother bought another Philps, a DVD recorder. This one, after one hour or so of recording, gets too hot, and make recording impossible, it began to scramble the picture. Sent to the same repairman - you guess it - he said that he didn't saw anything wrong with it. I finally figured out myself a solution, that is working well: since it does have some ventilation holes on top, every time I use it for recording, I put a fan directed toward the ventilation holes, and it doesn't get hot anymore.

Last week, I needed to put it to some more intensive use, I needed to make 8 hours of ininterrupting recording, so, I used not only the fan, but also installed it on a room with an air-conditioner at full power. It worked flawlessly.

But I still keep thinking that in the era of solid state circuits, such devices were not supposed to have overheating problems. Am I wrong???