The last console tv that I owned I actually picked it up on the side of the road. It was the early 90's and I was in college in Kansas and a huge tornado had just blown through leaving a path of destruction for miles. I had turned off of the highway and was about 2 miles from the tornado path and looked over in a field and saw a console tv laying there. So of course me and my buddy loaded it up, took it home and plugged it in. Lo and behold the sucker worked, used it for 4 years and passed it on when I moved on.