Originally Posted by
BlastProcessing402
Nah, the warm up issue was still really common long after the vacuum tube day. The kid across the street from me back in the 80's had a set his Nintendo was hooked up to that could take several minutes to turn on. Finally he was able to convince his dad to replace the set when it started taking something like 10 mins to come on. Granted, it was an old set, but not vacuum tube old. I don't think I've EVER seen a set with vacuum tubes, but the "warm up" problem was pretty universal, though not all to the degree that this kid's TV had, until the late 80's, early 90's.
30 seconds doesn't really sound so bad. Probably not that much longer than my 2011 LCD takes to do the effin HDCP handshake over HDMI with my cable box, though I've never timed it.