Citizen 08TA pocket LCD TV pocket television

This is quite a rare pocket tv, about 1983.. They were only available for a short period before colour pocket tvs came on to the market. It works by using dayligt to shine through the lcd panel in the flip up lid, the picture is viewed through a flat upward facing mirror.

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Science & Technology

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• Citizen
• 08TA
• pocket
• LCD
• TV

[rtbvhsrip]

I'll soon have one too, there's one for sale in my city. People think, analog TVs are useless. Yes, they are - except for the hobbyists, DIYers and of course: TV broadcast pirates :)))

So, who cares about analog switch off - as long as the radio regulator will not switch of MY station.

[metalmanin]

i remember that tv mine had a back light that clipped over the screen so you could witch it at night and right next to where the string is you have a jack that sais av/in and that is so you can use it like a tv monitor and on the other side you have another jack just like it for the ear phone but mine was all black and my friend jeffs was all black too

[metalmanin]

wait was that a casio i had the realistic pocketvision-5 and my friend had casio just like it and they looked just like that tv in everyway

[Teraforce88]

I just picked one of these up today at a yard sale for $1.00. It even came with the matching 93TA backlight unit! It appears to work perfectly, and I even picked up a low-powered UHF tv station on it!

[douro20]

This was probably the first widely marketed pocket-sized LCD TV to come out on the market. The LCD itself is a Citizen product and it has built-in video decoding circuitry; there are only six (iirc) leads running from the main PCB to the display. A white EL backlight was an option for this unit. I just bought one of these, and it didn't work out of the box but I refitted the LCD cable and it came right to life.