Neat Old JVC Color TV/Radio/Cassette Portable

Here's a nifty early 1980s piece of equipment...JVC's CX-500US combined a tape recorder, internal microphone, auxiliary input, AM/FM radio and a color television into one relatively portable package. It still works well today as demonstrated in this video.

Small color TVs like this one seem to be very expensive. It was possible to buy a black and white one for as little as $20. Yet the price on the color ones never really dropped. Most of those cost at least $200 until LCD models replaced them.

The cassette player does not record video at all. It is only capable of recording audio from TV broadcasts.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• JVC
• CX-500US
• vintage
• color
• television
• TV
• set
• radio
• cassette
• recorder
• demonstrate
• use

[RadioRex72]

Do you have a collection of vintage equipment on display, or do you resell these items? What do you find works best for cleaning dirty volume controls and such?

[uxwbill]

@RadioRex72 None of this stuff is really on display, but it is used and does move around the house. As far as cleaning controls goes, the cheap option is Radio Shack's TV tuner (and control) cleaner. The expensive but generally very good option is Caig Labs' DeOxit. (You can buy a version of this at Radio Shack sold as corrosion preventer.)

[laptopboone]

Please, uxwbill, please use The Key Keeper's iPhone for your future recordings. The microphone is worlds better, and the resolution to me is the same, except that with this, it doesn't keep pausing to buffer on me. You do have a point on the aspect ratio, though.

[uxwbill]

@laptopboone The Keykeeper has already expressed a little bit of annoyance when I want to borrow his phone. And while I can appreciate the vastly better audio quality, I like being able to make use of the whole Youtube player's size. Video quality from the other camera is better--its focus and sharpness are better and it does not tend to shift its white balance around as suddenly as the iPhone does.

[james42519]

there is still analog here.

[olds1978]

Nice device! I hade one a time ago, JVC is great!

[ibprofin100]

awesome!

[didogazeto]

fuck this 3D, HD, and other plasma bullshit

all i need is this !

[MrNachoman01]

i have one that is very smiler to that one. mines from '83, its color, i got it at a garage sale for 5 bucks and it has rechargeble battories(which i think are still in there) and it takes dry cell batories. mine doesnt play cassets though

[wtf66611]

Too bad the TV does'nt have a built in digital channel tuner.

[moscowandy]

love it )) wish I could have one now ))

JVC models used to have a lot of those mixing options

[TheCatMilton]

is that a serial/vga port back in that battery holder or is it just a switch