Vintage old 1950's Westinghouse 17" Lynwood Television TV Commercial 1950

[@demetriuspeaks3299]

I have an antique Westinghouse been in my family almost 80 years. In good condition and still works

[@CoopyKat]

@Demetrius Peaks Keep it! I couldn't believe when my father threw out a 1957 television that still worked in 1980!

[@fimo0299]

@@CoopyKatdid he trow it out in 1980 or recently ?

[@CoopyKat]

@@fimo0299 He threw it out sometime in the early or mid '80s. If I had known he was going to do it, I would have confiscated it. I was living on the other side of the state and didn't find out in time.

[@AbbieOates]

I only own a 12'' set and have wondered about these. I will wait until the new Sears catalogue comes in and see the prices.

[@joeytortice1965]

I didn't ex est back then, But I love vintage things.

[@jamesedinger4719]

Joey Tortice ex est??????????

[@sunitapandey7846]

You weren’t born back then

[@MegaMudokon]

Oh boy, a TV that *stays* tuned when I change the channel!

[@hebneh]

Advertising hype. Never happened.

[@ailahmashod]

Kaz dear god the electric bills...

[@loser2466]

IKR?!

[@fromthesidelines]

According to a September 1950 St. Louis newspaper ad, the "Lynwood" model sold (at Seidel Company) for $249.95.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Thanks for adding the price footnote.

[@atomsmash100]

That's $2721.64 in 2020. Imagine?

[@fromthesidelines]

You're welcome. :)

[@alexhetherington8028]

@@atomsmash100 That's way cheaper than the wallpaper Tv

[@tenfourproductionsllc]

@@atomsmash100 And would constantly need to have tubes replaced, repairmen come out and such... All within weeks of buying.

[@steelers6titles]

"The Westinghouse", as the plant near where I grew up was called, made the medium-power electrical transformers for the company. During WW2, it made torpedoes.

[@Jet012]

Then there's me watching a movie in a colored 60 inch flat screen tv.

[@mr.3camerasman59]

Johnnycraft "Colored"? Lol.

[@Jet012]

Americans say "Colored," Other people like British people for example say "Coloured."

[@pcno2832]

@@Jet012 Archie Bunker said "colored". When referring to TV sets, most Americans used to say "color TV" and I assume most Brits said "coloure TV". Of course, the last time I heard either expression was in the song "Money for Nothing" in which Scottish/English/Jewish/Hungarian (yes, that was his ethnic background) Mark Knofler was quoting a rant he heard in an appliance store in Long Island, NY.

[@alexhetherington8028]

That's being operated by your phone

[@voiceover-impressionist]

@@Jet012 NAACP. Which stands for: "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"...

[@jonaiken8373]

Back when Westinghouse was a real American brand.

[@शिवप्रमति]

thats how everything starts.. Amazing.. People from next century will laugh at our current technology as we are amused with older techs.. :)

[@larslarsman]

I am speaking through a time portal from the future, and, yes, I am slightly amused that after 100 years, they still haven't figured out Tesla's technology.

[@mag9604]

@@larslarsman Lmao

[@p020z5]

@@larslarsman we are using his tech everywhere Stop spreading conspiracy crap

[@pubgplayer1720]

1:38 "There; now that's quite a huge difference, isn't it?" lol

[@kilo5869]

post-viagra

[@steelers6titles]

The lowest-frequency VHF channel, channel one, was the one most prone to interference. Eventually, it was eliminated. Can't tell if this set has it.

[@ronaldwilliamson7963]

17" in a 3 to 4 ratio is larger than a widescreen of the same diagonal measurement. 17, 19, and 20 inch are same size psychologically. It just depends on how rounded the edges are. This is basically the size of larger screen portables throughout the CRT era, so most of you have watched TV's of this size, even if you're fairly young. In 1952, the 21 inch TV came on the scene. Basically a 21 inch TV, for reasons explained above, is the equivalent of 23, 25, and 27 inch CRT TV.

[@queencerseilannister3519]

I love vintage stuff

[@GlenCychosz]

The start of the big screen TV and trying to have the biggest TV on the block.

[@trevordance5181]

I bet the built in antenna, or aerial as we'd call it in the U.K., wouldn't give very good results unless in a really good reception area.

[@herecy13]

Damn how things have changed from then to now

[@grantzirtzman6355]

lol my 1999 computer screen is 17"

[@westmcallister6685]

Wow. Even my 2 computer monitors from the 90s are bigger than this! I have a 32" and a 21" inch monitor!

[@HenryBloggit]

Looks great, when does it come out?

[@luisreyes1963]

You're about 74 years too late. 👴

[@PajamaFrix]

for some reason i'm watching this on a westinghouse TV

[@debrareisdorf309]

I have a modern flatscreen Westinghouse TV now. You can be SURE if it's Westinghouse!!!

[@richardgordon8110]

And I thought I had a small TV. 40"

[@TheBobbybbc]

17 inch ....the 1950 version of the big screen!

[@bullsquid42]

Wow. Where can I buy this?

[@fromthesidelines]

At your Westinghouse dealer, where else?????

[@khateantonetteclituanas4873]

Don’t know

[@demetriuspeaks3299]

I have one

[@kidviper2006]

ebay!!!

[@alexhetherington8028]

You might have to travel back in time first.

[@steelers6titles]

Early sets did not have UHF tuners. To tune UHF channels with an older, VHF-only set like this one, you needed a separate UHF tuner.

[@ivan.gryazin]

“Does it ever occur to you with your television set?” - no, because I live over 70 years into the future 😅

[@movieklump]

I wonder what made the US accent become so nasal. Her voice is so pleasant to listen to.

[@PR1MEONE]

and then years and years later, now watching this on an EXTREMELY advanced computer [computers today]

[@Domino13334]

Watching this on a 65 inch 4K LED smart TV :)

[@steelers6titles]

No falling off the roof! My guess is that the built-in antenna reception was less than spectacular.

[@anonymousrebel6614]

can you imagine buying one of these in 2019...🤔 wonder if my ps4 would work with this?

[@iheartpetervenkmen960]

me playing DBD in my 17in tv

[@ShawnaGraham50]

The screen in my car is 8" wow we came a long way

[@xstrakooldude25]

Yet she never turns it on because it would have spoiled the marketing product dearly. Lol

[@johndavidson450]

Screens like that displayed with linear scanning. When you recorded it with video cameras they would look strange.

[@kinggymsrepublic3540]

its 2016 and i still want my refund

[@sierra991]

2018

[@paultheslayer2176]

2019

[@alexhetherington8028]

2020

[@paultheslayer2176]

Then theres my watching this on my 70" Samsung 4K 120hz QLED TV.

[@robertcombs55]

our first TV was a 51 Zenith; with a round screen! lol

[@Samuel-Parra]

it's like the screen size of my phone

[@resneptacle]

Why do you have a Monitor as phone?

[@mladenp__]

+JonasLue he is the time traveler, he has the Samsung Note 17 😂

[@resneptacle]

^^

[@MsMUSIQMAKER]

I want that TV!

[@joeguzman3558]

I remember our TV used to have a big line across the screen until it got hot then it would work ok some Times it would take 5 minutes and lets not forget the electric shock if not wearing shoes Lol

[@steelers6titles]

Made in America, baby!! Built like a TANK!!!

[@AlexB26492004]

The TV set I am watching on is the iPad Air 2

[@dal6984]

Brilliant!!

[@bdjoh011]

Was that the Caroline Appleby actress from I Love Lucy?

[@albear972]

Looks like her but no. That actress was Doris Singleton.

[@sisco0304]

Wow 17inches. and build in antenna wow black screen omg

[@Kevinschart]

the folks over at Westinghouse thought they were hot shit with their fancy "synchro tuning" lol

[@asmrdrawing8220]

17"" inch WoW huuuuuge

[@tokugawashogun6197]

Watching on my 8k samsung qled in 2019

[@CoopyKat]

Where can I order this? Looks super modern!

[@ryanbinse6631]

Where can I license this?

[@inkey2]

yep those were the days.....waiting for your TV set to "warm-up" when you turn it on.....only 3 network channels......ABC (American Broadcasting System), CBS (Central Broadcasting system) and NBC (the National Broadcasting Corporation). You usually had to adjust the antenna for each channel.......and that heavenly aroma of hot nearly burning wood too. Tv cabinets were made of wood. There were no transistors yet so TVs used large hot vacuum tubes. If you had the TV on long enough you could smell the wood cabinet getting hot

[@edwardnayegon2066]

Dint u mean BBC and ITV

[@inkey2]

+Edward Nayegon nope.....we didn't have BBC and ITV where I am....or was

[@edwardnayegon2066]

inkey2 Oh lol, I'm fairly certain BBC was the worlds first broadcasting company

[@inkey2]

+Edward Nayegon It may have been the first but it wasn't in the USA in those days. If you had a shortwave radio you could listen to BBC radio programs in the USA

[@edwardnayegon2066]

inkey2 cool

[@danielbeller972]

HUGE 17 INCH SCREEN...

[@alanstrong3295]

Westy had its good days.

[@winterlandboy]

I wanna get one .Where are they sold ?

[@patricksaxon3983]

I never knew that Westinghouse made televisions, as they mostly made appliances. That division was sold out to White Westinghouse to make appliances and Westinghouse got into government contracting to make radar for the U.S. goverment for the F-16 fighter jets.

[@hebneh]

"Built-in antenna" - ? Ha! I bet the majority of Westinghouse Lynwood sets in actual use ended up with a set of rabbit ears on the top, if not a full-sized antenna up on the roof.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Oh, did they mean it had an internal antenna? I had pictured a telescoping antenna like what you'd find on a boombox but I can see how I might be overestimating the maturation of the technology.

[@hebneh]

I don't believe telescoping antennas were in use till the late '50s, if not later.

[@steelers6titles]

Betty died in 1994 at age 78.

[@Hanks011]

oooooh damn! 17"

[@bwabymafia]

17 inch screen lol, wow

[@MrIllusionEyes]

I’ll feel ripped off if it comes with out the bunny ears. A modest price you say? That’s like a whole month of hard earned wages. I’ll wait for the next update when it comes with a few more channels

[@zz-xk7lc]

I love how y’all were too cheap to plug it in.

[@the_game]

Does it come with bluetooth?

[@gs2lover]

This ad makes me wanna play fallout

[@TheInkPitOx]

Mommy, what is this dial thing for?

[@EricOverOnYT]

and then i got a 1080p 60 inch plasma screen

[@sparticus214]

No to big man, a nice little gaming monitor is better because that big TV with break if it falls.

[@EricOverOnYT]

+Damien Hartley lol I just realized how cocky I sounded in this comment lol but I don't really use it for gaming

[@sparticus214]

+Eric McCann Good gaming monitors are expensive, If you look on eBay you see a lot of quad core computers which are compacts with PCI expansion but the assholes Don,t give the LED monitor that come with those computers and most monitors on eBay are the cheap LCD monitors So I just buy the compacts will i5 or Pentium quad because they come with the good monitors which normally cost more then the pc.

[@sparticus214]

***** People who have too much money

[@ernesto401986]

and then i got a 65 inch 4k tv

[@Lombax8000]

Price?

[@michaeljames1930]

249 bucks. That's 3,118 dollars today

[@paulmatulavich7321]

Progress! I'm watching this on a Westinghouse cell phone.

[@dejanmedakovic1451]

"Huge 17" "

[@ladylaura8038]

The more things change, the more they stay the same,.... as I sit watching on my iPad! 😉😉😉

[@Melissa0774]

The part at 1:10 - Can someone who reads lips tell what she's saying?

[@zabylurt]

So what accent is that?

[@1947Desoto]

+Marc Jourdain It was taught in schools at one point. The main purpose is for clear speaking which I believe was mainly pushed in the early days of sound films and dropped by the mid-1960's.

[@inkey2]

+zabylurt almost sounds like 1950's upper crust Boston accent

[@AnaBotticelli]

what happened to that brand?

[@wturner777]

Westinghouse is still around.

[@RantiMess]

Can confirm there is a Westinghouse 55 inch 4k UHD TV at my local BestBuy.

[@technowarriorstv]

#oldasstv

[@stolenmemesforstolendreams8922]

I'd bye one

[@TheBanMan]

Did tv sets in the late 40s have 20 dials or something? What is she talking about?

[@jrmcferren]

The channel selector and the fine tuning control were separate knobs on a lot of sets back then.

[@dxrrellmxller756]

i remember seeing westinghouse at walmart and thinking who tf is this "westinghouse" must be a no name lol went with LG.

[@saurabhkaushik6055]

Kisi ke pass tv ho to mujhko btana 1960 ki purani tv ho me pese de dunga mujhko purani tv chaiya

[@saurabhkaushik6055]

Mera hi namber h ye

[@sakenandersson7315]

soo low tech xD

[@richardmetz7139]

dude you are a fu-king a-s

[@ladr1550]

Also high quality.

[@pubgplayer1720]

Elon Musk showing off the new Tesla

[@Anthony_The_Chicken_Licker]

1:41 Huge 17 inch rectangular screen lmfao people back then was sooo stupid🤣

[@michaeljames1930]

You're a solid stupid azz