The first time I saw a JVC Videosphere with my own eyes was at a flea market a couple of years ago. I nearly lost my shit at its retro-future goodness and was hellbent on bringing it home with me. Unfortunately, my wallet didn’t agree.
But look at this thing. It looks like Neil Armstrong’s helmet mated with with a TV. It stands out, but it’s still sleek. It looks like very few things which came before it. It was inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey. In short, it’s wonderful. But you know, we kind of one-upped our own vision of the future.
First introduced in the early 1970s, the Videosphere was sold up through the early ’80s. There was even a model with an Design aside, I have no idea what purpose a Videosphere would serve in a household today, but if you really want one of your own, start here. There are certainly worse ways to spend $US265. [Etsy]
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 3:56 PMSo… it’s a normal CRT screen but in a spherical casing? Interesting, but with the curved plastic outer cover you’d have a lot of concentrated glare.
And It’s described as “cherry” red on the site- it looks bright orange to me. Is there something wrong with my eyes?
Ghazarios
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:20 PMDefinitely bright orange.
Andrew
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:18 PMI’m a fan of this one:
http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/1960-sony-tv8-301-portable-3d-max/614353
Epic retro.
David
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:26 PMit is missing an apple logo for you Ozone?
Ozoneocean
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 5:45 PMYes. Please put one on there for me.
[doa]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 4:46 PMI remember Philips had a similar but much sexier model. Dad would only buy me the boring ordinary one though :o(
https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6326398464_0d01bcb1b1.jpg
Theophilus
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 5:26 PMI used to work for JVC about 5 years ago. If i had known about this i would have added it back into the forecast !!! So much win.
Mmmmm
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 8:53 PMMy mum bought my dad one of these for Christmas, brand new, I was about 12 at the time. As other reader have pointed out its a CRT in a sphere but it gets better than that. It was a black and white CRT in a sphere. Remember portable TVs were state of the art. Transistor technology could alow us to make small TVs. Despite having a big furiture type TV we sat there watching this little TV in awe of the technology. Yes it was orange, exactly like it looks in the picture.
Jamie
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 12:21 PMI actually saw one of these at an Antique store just this Sunday gone. My girlfriend had to drag me out of the place before I could buy it. Groovy!
Aussie
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 5:48 PMI had one of these , brand new, in the 70′s and mine was RED..very very red… I loved it..I could tilt it slighlty and watch tv laying in bed. The quality was awesome. Bring them back…anyone…someone…please?