Seiko TV Watch

[LOPEZdJUNGLIST]

would have killed for this as a kid

[vwfanarg]

pretty modern sh*t, gotta love seikos

[Ishcoa]

The TV isn't small, the display is small. The box is HUGE!

[natvision20X]

Did that guy just say eat less live longer?

[punishedexistence]

@natvision20X It's true actually about the eat less live longer. The more you eat the faster the metabolism works, and the quicker you reach the, uhh, end point. I guess I won't be living as long, but there is actually some fact in that. Nice little TV though, cool piece of history.

[Zarkovision]

I allways wanted one when it came out. Luckily they were incredible expensive, so I never bought one. The picture was bad, and the manufacturing quality also... So they disappeared from the market very soon and until now there came no new TV watch. Even TV on cellular phones was no success.

[hawaiidispenser]

I was in 1st grade when this came out and I remember chatting about this invention with my friends at school. We wanted one so bad..

[zillsburyy1]

LOVE the 80's

[DogFather0808]

If memory serves, these sold for around $425-450 new. In 1983 I worked in a jewelry store that carried Seiko, and we had one in the display cabinet behind the counter. Not just anyone was allowed to see it up close. It never sold during the five months I worked there. Even at Christmas people didn't want to buy it as a novelty. We just kept up with basketball games on it but the display was pretty crappy.

[multitask819]

and still in 2012. I don't have tv on my watch :/

[harry99710]

you can buy one on ebay for 768.00 plus postage

[Lvduggo69]

I have one for sale. It's in perfect shape and u can get a converter for it to get digital tv.

I have link , just mesage me.

[MarkusJamesOrlias]

damn that is cool too bad it is useless now due to the format change

[MajorasFlask]

a tv watch, never thought i'd see the day

[showagamer]

Great! Thank you very much for sharing this video!

[cygil1]

I see -- there's a gigantic external box that does the tuning, decoding and driving the watch's LCD display via an external bus. I knew from the first second this was too good for 80s technology without some kind of cheat.

[flosdraad]

@cygil1 lol

[TheMJG1]

I think that TV was in "Dragnet" from 1987.

[JiS01]

Loool! I hope that TV show is from the 80s too?? :)

[JiS01]

loool 30 years later it's like 50 bucks in the stores but for some reason no ones buy them! i guess they're just not pratical

[puppyloveforu]

My mom bought this watch for me back in the mid-80's as a Christmas gift, and it was the best Christmas ever! It was only $200 because it had been used as a display model in a big department store in NY. I still have it today, but the display has gone out. They say I can ship it to Japan and have another one installed, but the cost of that would likely be more than the entire watch was back then! Damn liquid crystal!

[redilliop]

The true smallest tv ever made was the NHJ color tv watch, since the tuner was INSIDE the watch itself, not a box attached to it.

[nosajj12345]

I was going to say CRT, but there's no way they could have made a CRT that small back then. Shit, I don't think they can do it now

[kingdompunkis1]

EAT LESS LIVE LONGER LOL :)

[kinmanyuen]

fuck iphone, lets get this

[douro20]

Monochrome STN LCD, displays blue images. The box contains the NTSC tuner. Video processing is done inside the watch itself.

[markzilla6969]

was that lcd? in the 80's! surely not a crt, could've been potentially fatal!

[nigga1981]

wow

[chipmaster86]

I had one of these back in 83. Cost me 500 bucks then. And was nice. Especially due to a boring job. Had no back light though. I ended up selling it on ebay a few years ago.

[the14u36]

hey i had one of these back in 82

[JessikahAznBabyy]

can you get cable on that bad boy?

[foxhounduk2k8]

@JessikahAznBabyy lol. the burning question

[Dell0304]

@stealthmummy no meant when it was new. but thats still a lot....

[winkosmosis]

Why didn't you take a head-on shot so we can see what the screen actually looks like?? I kept wanting to grab your hand and point it straight at the screen.

[Dell0304]

cool. bet it costed like $10000 or something.

[sweettooth80]

awwwwwwww i want it :(

[peaceman1234567]

Silly,its something the yanks would come up with but its Japanese!!

[seansfc]

lol cool

[sweettooth80]

awwwww i want it

[Monito1971]

This may seem silly now, but back in 1983 when Seiko introduced this TV watch it took the world by storm. Not only a small LCD TV screen but in color too.

This comes from an era when the internet was still a lab experiment, home computers were primitive and cell phones were still a rare and expensive gadget.

[coolbluelights]

damn they had such cool innovative technology back in the 80s, there's nothing that innovative now

[dogeymon83]

Horrible idea. Why would anyone want to sit and watch TV on their watch?? In order for it to be practical, the screen would have to be really small. That would hurt your eyes.

[videosyoulove]

I had one of those back in 1984!!! Paid $500 for it brand new!

[thedeem0N]

that's a pretty ridiculous apparatus you needed to receive television that is being broadcast & it wouldn't work today...not unless you added a Digital Converter box into the mix....

[ThePhoneUpdate]

@thedeem0N Why not go all out and hide a satellite TV box and car battery in your coat? :)

[willprich]

zoom out

[tutorial15]

Are a digital clock conected to a receiver and a speaker

[MarkusRasmussen]

That is soo cool! What the name of this model, and can they be bought anywhere?

[SmilezGER]

useless....

[themaritimeman]

Useless? This was one of the most anticipated electronic devices of the 1980s!

[Tonefid115]

Good post,nice watch!

[DirzoRasec]

AnalogHero: this is no longer the world's smallest TV.

A company makes a "glasses TV". the screen is the size of a postage stamp.

[RockOnGoodPeople5394]

carry around a converter box with it lol

[DirzoRasec]

RockOnGoodPeople5394

[DirzoRasec]

RockOnGoodPeople5394: don't be surprised if there is already one with a "micro-converter".

[RockOnGoodPeople5394]

I never said there wasn't it was just a joke.

[DirzoRasec]

RockOnGoodPeople5394: Cool

[spazmario]

that dosen't look to comfortable to carry around on your wrist.

[DarkMetalSpider]

Thanks for uploading this!!!!!!!!! I knew I wasn't crazy ;) I remember seeing the display for these at the mall back in the early 80s, and it was cool - I'm still wanting one after all these years!!!!!!!

[DarkMetalSpider]

Not everyone.......

[brentkbeach]

Other companies still make tv watches, although why bother when you can do the same on your phone now.

[Nudelsalatbomber]

right! plus - those tiny watch screens will give you a hell of a headache after a short time!

[DirzoRasec]

brentkbeach: try wearing your phone on your wrist.

[mukatuna]

Well there are wrist wearable phones, but they're usually rather crap. They tend to rely on the user wearing a Bluetooth headset. Strictly for the uber-geek or Borg wannabe.

Checkout a video called 'T918 Watch Phone Review'.

[Evansmustard]

i love ashens lol

[vatossan]

so u need that big thing? thats no fun then.

[Luwo007]

haha, that´s the watch from the james bond movie "octopussy"!

[Filosofen88]

Is the display just a 2-bit lcd screen? No greyscales?

[dj2bklyn]

I'd like to know why the TV watch isn't as common as the calculator with todays TEK im quite surprised?

[calzapapa]

@dj2bklyn because it is quite uncomfortable to watch tv in a screen that little.. it was more like a novelty than something really useful

[Pommes1983]

@dj2bklyn because the analog transmitters are turned off

[dj2bklyn]

Does anyone know that this was used in the movie Dragnet?

[mathiasvolta]

Yes, it was used in Dragnet.

@AnalogHero:

Tnx for upload ! 5*

[markyscot1979]

I bet those cost a fortune back then!!

[DarkMetalSpider]

yeah...about $500

[markyscot1979]

lol which at that point would have cost £250.00GBP i think. Lotta money. Mind u my wee portable TV in my bedroom cost £300.00 ($600.00) then. Lookin back some technology has become more affordable.

[anthony15601]

@markyscot1979 now its probally like a buck lol

[ItsMrSeb]

@markyscot1979 and now

[GazamYT]

Incredible. And the charm is that it was basic and so analag and so non-tech slick like today. It was almost simplistic design, angular and cold but amazing. Today, thats not even possible and even forgotten that it was done!

[Interests2009]

I remember those watches

[dgridley]

Problem is, after February, you'd need a converter box to use it!

[palmmate]

I just can't believe that something like this was created!

"I have to have it!"

[SkippyYTUK]

I always wanted something like this as a child. They're so cool. I had a Sinclair Radio Watch for £10. (1980s)

[Lachlant1984]

What kind of batteries does the unit use?

[Lachlant1984]

When was the unit made? Were they released worldwide?

[Sushi4breakfast]

new update for this device would be color OLED screen (16:9) and mini-USB input for downloading your MP4 files, and lithium battery.

[OrientalSoulman]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I love the fact that the screen is on the watch and it is soo small, but for it to actually be portable you basically have to strap an antenna and a small generator to your back.

[dmc081]

now in days we have one with built in tv tuner n antenna in micro size with color screen

[coondogtheman1234]

so the tuner is that big black box thing and then it sends the video signal to the watch, this could probably be modded to take video and audio from a game console somewhere between the box and watch but it doesnt look like the headphones plug into the watch they plug into the big box

[AnalogHero]

People have modified the video input, but yes, the headphones are plugged into the receiver. The headphones also act as an antenna for the TV signal.

[coondogtheman1234]

thats neat so basically the watch part is just a monitor just like, i dont know if youve seen these things but the color monitors to the apple IIe computers from the 80s they used programs on 5,1/4 inch floppy discs the sound of these old computers came from a speaker on the keyboard unit, so to get audio you would have to use external speakers in your audio source

[coondogtheman1234]

sorry for double commenting (blame this on YouTube's lame 500 character limit) but can you rig an RCA connector on the wire coming from the tuner box the video signal from the box and run it thru a tv monitor man id have so much fun hacking this thing id get 2 of em one to use normally and one to hack lol

[MouseFX]

damn cool :D

[orion1052003]

Did Dick Tracy bid on this?