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01-25-2016, 09:17 PM
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Strange Projection TV
Took a look at this tall white plastic projection set in Northern NJ today.
It stands about 6 feet high, with a molded white plastic swept-style base, and the weirdest screen, resembling a flattened balloon! I'd guess 70s or 80s. It has a lens assembly inside, which is made similar to an overhead projector, and there is a portable TV (I was told), in the attic which slides into the unit. The TV is mirror-image to compensate for the projection assembly. Has anyone seen this set before, or even an ad? I've seen a skillion sets, but nothing remotely like this one. It might be a school type set, or something originally used in a lecture environment. Had just picked up a TRK-120, so I didn't have room in the van, even if I decided to get it! Thanks -- Harry 
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01-25-2016, 11:21 PM
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Maybe it's just the picture but it almost appears to be widescreen?.
Perhaps a one off prototype or movie prop?
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01-26-2016, 07:49 AM
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Proj set
Not a prop, but possibly a very limited production.
That white plastic base, and the balloon-screen (which seems like it could have been 2 feet or larger diag.) were molded--not prototyped...someone paid to have the molds made and the units produced, even if they only ordered 50 pcs. Couldn't find a makers name or mark, and the portable TV that was modified for the set was not immediately found.
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01-26-2016, 09:36 AM
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But what, Mrs. Lincoln, about that TRK-120?
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01-26-2016, 11:40 AM
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01-26-2016, 06:26 PM
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Maybe some kind of store display prop? No need for badges.
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01-27-2016, 09:59 PM
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I'm hoping the TRK-120 will be sold before I have to pay ebay 10% !!
It was just sitting there, still on the bottom skid it was shipped on, unsold, in an old appliance shop...what was I to do, if not buy it?!?
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01-27-2016, 11:21 PM
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Wow!!!! 
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01-28-2016, 01:49 AM
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I could understand it if this was 1980, like when I worked in a surplus store in downtown Chicago that had four GE 15-inch color monitors from 1954, three of them still unopened in their wooden crates. But, the world has changed a lot in 35 years. Or, I thought it did. Congratulations for that nice find. (And, please see if they have the TV chassis from another TRK-120 sitting there, too. I need one!)
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