My sister had a portable dual tape deck style radio in the 80s that had that TV screen as one of the tape deck bays. It had RCA out jacks for the TV, so I plugge those into the Tape deck Line in RCAs. You could record TV to a cassette. And then play it back on the console TV in. The image was poor, and the volume made the image smaller or larger on the CRT screen.

When I was a kid, if someone had a TV in their kitchen, it was usually one of these

Ooo, beautiful!!

You should cross post to cassette futurism ☺️

!cassettefuturism@lemm.ee !cassettefuturism@lemmy.world

I think .ee went down? So that comm may be dead I dunno

here is another photo:

Thats fricken cute ! What a deal.

I had something similar growing up, but mine was black & white. I loved that thing, used it for radio, too.

i love these things so much. my dream is to modify one to use as a wireless second-screen for background media, but i’m waiting until i can rustle up one of those schmancy color ones they used as monitors for film shoots.

you can buy a little box to transmit your own broadcasts short distances, and there’s software you can use to stream multiple channels simultaneously. imo it’s gotta be the coolest way to do local media!