Top 5 best TVs

Picking the right TV is important. Right behind your health, and your family, and world politics. But face it, it's up there. It beat world peace once in a survey--seriously.

Anyway, this week the Top 5 tells you the best TVs you can get. And you have a chance to win a Star Wars space shooter. Watch the show, answer the question in the comments below, and you could get a free thing. And that's important too.

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Tags:: TV,; HDTV,; television

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by dealsjive5 September 4, 2009 4:14 PM PDT: RCA Model TRK; Like this Reply to this comment


by mackid1993 September 4, 2009 5:06 PM PDT: 1946 7" Viewtone Sold for $100. Love the show!; Like this Reply to this comment


by davidgoduke September 4, 2009 5:09 PM PDT: 1938 Dumont Model 180. Love the show!; Like this Reply to this comment


by cvaldes1831 September 4, 2009 5:32 PM PDT: Hello Kitty TV

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/175-7104138-1235343?ASIN=B000284WK4&AFID=Froogle&LNM=B000284WK4|Hello_Kitty_13&#34;_Color_TV_KT2114&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=B000284WK4&ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001; Like this Reply to this comment


by pimpsahoy September 4, 2009 6:00 PM PDT: 1938 Dumont Model 180; Like this Reply to this comment


by dealsjive5 September 4, 2009 6:19 PM PDT: The Baird Televisor was sold between 1928 to 1934.; Like this Reply to this comment


by kyanni September 4, 2009 7:20 PM PDT: The Telefunken sold in the US in 1938 at the grand old price of $125 and came with a 3" screen.; Like this Reply to this comment


by jakejakebinks September 4, 2009 8:08 PM PDT: 1938 dumont 180; Like this Reply to this comment


by lilshortyan11o9 September 5, 2009 12:24 AM PDT: 1938 Dumont Model 180; Like this Reply to this comment


by riegler.d September 5, 2009 7:51 AM PDT: Dumont Model 180. What the heck ever happened to Dumont?; Like this Reply to this comment


by njf1003 September 6, 2009 7:38 PM PDT: 1938 Dumont Model 180; Like this Reply to this comment

by tjjozefowicz September 7, 2009 10:59 AM PDT

1938 Dumont Model 180

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by tjjozefowicz September 7, 2009 11:41 AM PDT: The Dumont was the first commercially sold one, but the General Electric Octagon, 1928 (U.S.A.) with RCA radio 1928 (U.S.A.) was in the US, but was not in mass production.; Like this


by tjjozefowicz September 8, 2009 4:46 PM PDT: So, the answer depends on what you meant by first tv sold in the US.; Like this


by caudisona1 September 7, 2009 10:46 PM PDT: General Electric Octagon.; Like this Reply to this comment


by d5j9 September 8, 2009 10:48 AM PDT: Dumont Model 180; Like this Reply to this comment


by September 8, 2009 2:57 PM PDT: 1928 GE octagon; Like this Reply to this comment


by Coronus42 September 8, 2009 3:59 PM PDT: The oldest US TV was the GE octagon, 1928.; Like this Reply to this comment


by earthboundloveship September 9, 2009 1:25 PM PDT: oh wow, i dont know the answer but I HAVE THAT TOY!!!!!
it shoots the little foam discs! so much fun

thanks for takin me down memory lane there tom :P; Like this Reply to this comment


by j2benz September 11, 2009 10:25 AM PDT: It's the 1928 G.E Octagon; Like this Reply to this comment


by ElanderG September 15, 2009 9:00 AM PDT: The 1928 GE Octagon.; Like this Reply to this comment


by grrrr September 16, 2009 8:54 AM PDT: The first TV SOLD in the U.S. was the DuMont!; Like this Reply to this comment

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