The kids don't care whether it's plasma, LCD, or 1950 DuMont

[TV set]

Please. It's not a flatscreen. That would look awful. It's a picture tube, nice and bowed. Mechanical controls, wired up to work. I did the conversion almost 20 years ago, using a fresh conventional CRT set. I attached a photo from when I first had it going. See the laserdisc player? Now, that I did not keep.

The house dates to 1949. The DuMont fits in beautifully. But I had the wiring completely re-worked in the '90s. It pays to be safe.

This is my only conversion. I'd love to get it original, but frankly, the family likes it the way it is. I'm just keeping the original components because I can't bear the idea of being the one that makes this process irreversible.

Tomorrow, some of our guests will be in the breezeway, watching a game on our flatscreen on the wall. But some guests will be in the living room, watching the pseudo DuMont. Including the kids.

I've been a collector for many years. I've owned a porthole, a Dewald RCA 630 clone, a doghouse, a TR-005. I'm about to claim the 17-inch 1951 Magnavox that was my childhood set. It has a raster and audio. I need the original knobs -- dark honey colored -- if anyone has a line on a set of them. And I need someone in Massachusetts who can recap the set. My skills aren't up to it. Can anyone help?

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