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TELEVISION for bedroom

At first I thought I should get RCA just for remote control compatability. But the 19" TVs they have look so much like TVs, with shape nonrectilinear. And both Sony and RCA have formica wood cabinets. There was a silver Sony but that's almost as bad, and Sony doesn't have channel selection on front panel, and no clock, though it did have the sleep feature (automatically turns off in an hour) and front auxiliary input port, and remote controllable picture brightness.

But then I found the 19" RCA MONITOR which has dark grey pewter rectilinear cabinet. It's everything I really want. And it's $10 cheaper than Sony.

Another 2 things I like about RCA: prior channel button on remote control, and display (channel + time) goes away automatically.

So I order RCA 19" monitor and it will be delivered Friday.

VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER.

Choice came down to RCA 950 versus Panasonic 9600 in order to get high fidelity audio, portability, docking VHS.

RCA

5 Head

Black & horizontal

Help screen

Recording level meter

Integrated remote

Panasonic

4 Head advanced technology

$175 cheaper

All output from portable port, not just FR out as on RCA

Continuity with previous unit which I liked.

I decided on panasonic because the Help Screen probably isn't that important, nor the meter. The 5 head is an embarrassment of poor technology, and all other RCA units use just 3! RCA is not the chic unit.

Also I will probably use the system in the bedroom as usual, so that's where it's base should be. Taking RCA to living room is problem since it has no video/audio out on portable part.

Now all I must get is carrying case and camera.