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Le Commercial for Amstrad personal computer.

Finkbuilt built this nice “RetroVision 2000 AV Cabinet”.

Waxy waxes re oscilloscopes.

Wired online gives us a Gallery of Televisions (and you thought the title would be mis-leading).

One fails to find the words that describe Vákuum TV. That is because the site is in Hungarian, a language with which we can do nothing but point at and titter. As near as we can discern, the perpetrators have adapted Edison’s kinetescope projection technique for viewing by pressing one’s forehead against a television tube. The one-minute videos, silent pantomimes of performance art, all have a common theme of “X realizes that Y, and kills himself”. We are sure that Edison would have approved.

SCP is not sure how to react to this. Sometimes we like case-mods. Some of them can be quite captivating, original, and beautiful. This is one such example. However, to achieve the desired effect, the engineers have gutted a vintage 1959 Philco Predicta television set.

The casemod has been performed with the intention of preserving as much as possible of the aesthetic of the original, while still creating an object that could serve as a day-to-day computer. The unit was built for a client, to eventually house an experimental computer they’re building[….]

SCP thanks, somewhat, Gizmodo for drawing this to our attention. We are going away for a while to mourn in private.

The Keraclonic Sphere

Gizmodo has got to stop spreading this sort of information about. If plastic, spherical wood-grained-patterned TVs were constructed in the early 1970s, man was just not meant to know….

NPR : Color TV’s 50th Anniversary

March 25, 2004 — Fifty years ago today, the first color TV sets made for consumers started rolling off the assembly line. Because they were initially too expensive and there was little color programming available, it took more than a decade for color television to become a household fixture.

NPR’s Lynn Neary reports on the early days of color TV, and the way today’s new technology — from HDTV to TiVo — is similarly transforming home entertainment.

Includes related NPR stories and links to a 1958 NBC color broadcast, and early (animated) TV color logos (Peacocks, for those of you too young to have thought about it, have very colorful tails. get it?).

Don McLean’s Tv Dawn - a cornucopia of information on the World’s Earliest Television recordings–Baird 30-line mechanical television recordings on 100-120rpm wax and metal-foil discs in the late 1920s.

Some restored clips can be seen on-site, as well.