1949 Tele-Tone TV-209 Vintage Television
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- This is a Tele-Tone model TV-209 from 1949.
I restored the electronics on this 60 year old TV last year, the cabinet still needs a little attention.
Nicknamed a "Porthole" set because the face of the picture tube is not masked off to create the standard 4:3 image.
Sets like this either stretch the vertical to fill the screen or zoom the entire picture thereby cutting off the sides, neither option is correct as far as watch-ability but it allowed the maker of the set to advertise more square inches of screen without actually having a bigger tube.
Completely round picture tubes were pretty much gone (except for Color sets) after about 1951.
The chassis in this set is a modified version of the RCA
621/721 chassis, typical of Tele-Tone it's been cheapened somewhat but it really works very well.
There is a slight audio buzz that's exaggerated by the camera, in reality it's not so bad.
The video playing is a Public Domain episode of Betty Boop downloaded from the Prelinger Archives.
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I love this. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
fascinating that families used to all set round watching televisions like this one. i always thought the picture back then would be poor but watching this set i am amazed at the quality.
mark caine In 1949 not too many people had television outside of New York, and Chicago, and LA.
@@visaman -- The FCC freeze was enacted in 1948. Between then and the lifting of it in 1952, there were 108 stations that went on the air. By the end of 1949, several smaller markets had TV, including Phoenix, New Orleans, Atlanta (like Phoenix, a small market in that era, unlike today), Grand Rapids, and Albuquerque.
@@keithelster8858 thanks. I wrote my comment over 4 years ago, since then I learned that Seattle had a TV station in late 1948, the only station north of San Francisco.
Contrast that with Vancouver BC, Canada which didn't get TV until late 1953. My parents in Saskatoon didn't get TV until 1954/55.
Back in 1949 my father bought a 1949 Philco B&W TV set. Color TV was still very experimental and was not yet being sold to the public. It was a 17 inch round screen. We had that TV for some years. The cost of this TV back in 1949 was about $270 USD. In today's dollars the cost equivalent would be in the range of $5000 USD. Back in 1949 my father was earning at his job in the range of $2800 USD per year. This was excellent pay during those years. My parents were living in the US at that time.
Awesome technology! I hope humanity will be able to archive this knowledge and preserve it. This beautiful T.V. set and the cartoon that is playing makes me nostalgic for an era that I was not even born in.
I'm watching TV on TH-cam.
I think that the cabinet looks fine. It should retain a little history! Thanks for sharing.
As a modern day tech freak I must say this is very cool!!!! a tv with a circle frame!!!!
I swear to God, NOTHING better than a Betty Boop cartoon to highlight VINTAGE TV RECEIVERS from the 40s/50s !!!
A 3 Stooges short, Bugs Bunny cartoon or Honeymooners episode would work as well.
Imagine being a kid back then and you have the only "Television" in the whole neighborhood! You have your friends over see this new invention! A radio with pictures? Wow.
Curt Chase Maybe the inly TV in town!
I'm 76 & I was one of those kids, when we got our first t.v. in 1950, at age 4!
It was mesmerizing because I hadn't gone to school yet or anywhere & now
was able to see the World, through this amazing box!
@@rongendron8705 Nice! Thx 4 the comment.
Don't sit so close to the TV, you kids. It's bad for your eyes. And turn on some lights in here or you'll get a headache from eyestrain.
And what you doing sitting inside in front of the TV on a nice day like this? Get outside and play!
I had one of these, but couldn't get it going...even farmed it out to a tv tech(who was lazy, and didn;t really do anything to it) so it;s great to see one working! : )
OUR FIRST TV WAS A 16" TRUETONE WE GOT IN 1951...THOUGHT IT WAS AMAZING...
Imagine playing Cuphead on this tv. That would be amazing!
Truly awesome!
vintage porthole tv
Awesome porthole set!
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Nice~ beautiful television set.
Superb.
SO COOL!!! I would love one of these.
had one I could never get it working...its a long story a tv repaiman had it and was going to repair it, but it was not a priority so it sat there for a long time,I finally took it back.
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Great set! Thank you for sharing.
RESPECT!
...THERE'S A STEP BACK IN TIME-(!)
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When this was made people were still grieving over their loved ones lost in world War two.
David Brown And getting ready for Korea.
Albert Giesbrecht yep a lot of body's were never recovered from Korea. They would pretend they were going to hand over bodies but they were only trying to get money out of us.
What is that faint buzzing sound in the background?
Question answered in the description.
looks great
Very nice.
This is wonderful ty.
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Converted using VSO Software "Convert to X" and burned to a DVD, it works very well because there is no Macrovision to cause problems.
i got tons of 70 cartoons on dvd in walmart fort wayne indiana so i watch cartoon network latin america watching a betty boop music i was a child
very cool
but worth its quality
I suspect these early round b/w picture tubes may have been connected with the development of TV out of radar. It wasn't long before b/w tubes changed to the more movie-like rectangular shape, but it took until the mid-1960's for rectangular color picture tubes to "hit the market."
It is simply easier and cheaper to make TV or any other CRTs round and circular. The Germans were creating square flat-screen CRT television sets as far back as 1938
Jeff Missinne mjm
Motorola brought out the first rectangular picture tube in 1964.
it was available in 25" diagonal size.
The French probably would had called this a "hublot"- it's the French word for porthole.
Another good one to watch on this set would be Looney Tunes
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I have a couple a videos up, of a 1954 RCA Ct-100 first color TV. Will be up for sale 5/1/14.
This new-fangled television thing will never take off.
SilverWingedOne lol
Vintagetvs, Do you happen to have any technical information regarding the Tele-tone TV-209? Finding useful info on the interwebs has proven difficult. A long shot but figured I would try. Thanks.
Sams Photofact 57-21 is supposed to be the service info for this model. There's one on eBay right now for $8. Search for 1949 Tele-Tone and not the Sams number.
Beautiful it's very old. Kkk
How rare are these?
I want to watch star trek tos on this tv :-)
This is awesome! Any chance I could use this clip on my channel to post some music? I would just replace the video footage with something else.
Extremely stupid question. Not familiar with old TV. What's that constant buzzing noise?
Probably a bit of noise from the vertical circuit, or it may need the sound detector touched up a little. The microphone on the camera exaggerates it quite a bit, not as noticeable in person.
Vintagetvs Thank you. If tv was still like this, I would be driven insane!
@corrina253 BECAUSE CAMERAS HAD ROUND HOLES TOO..DUH!!!
Now how is the tv playing something you downloaded?
i love u videos
can i play nintendo on it?
I'm sure you can...providing you have an RF adapter to plug it in.
no but is smallest and circle screen
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The television, as an output device, can handle any 525 analog NTSC signal that goes to it. Even with a console as new as a PS4 or XBox One, you could convert the HDMI signal into composite, then into RF out into any NTSC television (made in the us after 1941)
It’s funny how they don’t even try to hide the round tube with a fascia
Most TV makers DID. Those sets showed the WHOLE frame of video displayed, but over a smaller surface area. But those that didn't could boast a bigger picture (on the SAME SIZE tube..) But, you loose a good bit of the actual video frame. Ahhh, Marketing!
The horizontal is a bit too far to the right.
THIS IS VINTAGE
Is it stereo?
these are your TVs, how to contact you?
Anyone know original pricetag?
the TV is 67 years old as of 2016
inkey2 I don't have one yet. I have so many of them I can't afford getting another one
why is the center of the crt duller than the rest?
+Mephitus Incognito This particular tube has a thin spot in the phosphor for whatever reason, manufacturing defect, Ion burn or poor rebuild at some point.
how is the tv shows downloaded video/?
1, Download a video from the internet. 2, Burn video to a DVD. 3, Hook up DVD player to an old TV. 4, Play DVD on old TV.
How are Watching stuff?
DVD Player and an RF Modulator.
What’s the buzzing noise??
Electromagnetic interference.
how many inches is the screen?
10" tube but probably about 9 inches of actual screen.
this is old!!!! and I mean old!
All televisions use electronics.
They must have been smoking the good stuff.
but can it run crisis?
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Can I play Battlefield 1 on it?
Can you hook up Super Mario 64?
Yes you can, the basic broadcast standard didn't change until the 2009 Digital changeover.
Let me rephrase: Will YOU please do a video with Mario 64 on it? Or any video game?
Sell it to me!
I could almost feel the radiation hitting my face from watching this
Radiation was a problem on a few COLOR sets made before the 1970's. Color TVs use a higher voltage that have a SLIGHT leakage of X Ray radiation at close range. Later sets have better lead shielding. This is a black and white set. A 1949 black and white set is a "dangerous" as a 1989 black and white set.
LOL CIRCLE SCREEN
bro the tv is as ugly as a zombie bruh
That guy that said this set does not have electronics (confused with transistors) must be a Republican. Scary how people so simple can sound knowingly authoritative. Creepy.
Duane Thamm you win the prize for most retarded comment in the last five years. Congratulations!
Did you know that one of the INVENTORS of the transistor was a pretty hard core racist? No? Probably not. But I bet $20 you think Republicans are racist. LOL.
First tv was 7in teletone w oil magnafier high channels weak this set isdifferent than mine was.
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This is SOOOO great when vintage programming is played on a vintage SET! I really, REALLY hate it when JIVE TURKEY programming (post 2000) is played on antique sets!
I'd also like to watch some POPEYE cartoons on that TV set. Also some TerryToons; Crusader Rabbit, Tom Terrific, Heckle & Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, et al.
Wonderful clip, thx 4 posting! I LOVE it when the programming is older than the TV set! I HATE it when 40s/50s TVs are used to play 21st century "jive turkey" programming. The ambience is completely ruined.
And, It's natural that the programming can be older as a lot of old films were "filler" in early TV schedules!