Is it possible to retrofit a vintage 1960s television?

Would it be feasible to want to put in a plasma screen and a connection for DVR? I know nothing about this. But I want to decorate a room in my house completely 60s, including the television. Thanks!

Sure. It is certainly possible to remove the guts of an old TV and mounts a plasma inside. Of course, its not likely that you will find a plasma that exactly fills the hole for the tube of the old TV....but you can probably some up with some sort of decorative way to fill the gap.

It would be possible to install a LCD or plasma screen in your television.

Of course you would need to gut the case as you would have no use for any of the components on the inside. You would also need to measure the viewing area of you old TV case (This is done by measuring from corner to opposite corner in inches) and buy a LCD or Plasma with the same dimensions.

You may need to get a little creative getting you new screen to mount flush with the old case, but a few brackets from your local home improvement store should do the trick.

Depending on how far you wish to go, you can run the wiring for your TV through the back of the case, or if you know you are going to need constant access to the connections. Any electronics store should have feed through connectors for any type of connection you would expect to encounter on a new TV. You would simply run a short length of cable from the new TV to the case, at the inside, and you’re feed though, and at the back on the outside of the case you would see a normal connection for whatever you wish to hook up.

You could, but it's not going to look right. I grew up in the 60s and those screens were rounded big time so unless you want to cut the glass and scrap out the guts I don't know how, but I'm sure there is a way..

60's look? UhhhgH! My mom fancied herself as a great decorator and when I think back on it and look at old pictures it was like being in between the "space age" and 1941 and everything has the air of gaudiness, but that's on you. Just avoid the fake roman god plastic junk that was popular among the Beverly home-billies whenever they managed to acquire any money above zilch.

All that aside the good thing is many of those old sets had wood carcasses so you can cut into them easily. If your set is plastic it won't be so simple, but can be done non the less. I would look at maybe one of those old dinosaur console models because you'll have a lot more room to play with and a lot of spaces to hide modern controls.

Good luck with it and if you do it send a picture. I'd like to see it.

You should check out MAKE magazines blogs or instructables.com they show projects from people who have done this type of thing. One major issue you have to watch out for is when taking out the old electronics. The capacitors that operate the picture tube have the ability to store a lethal charge of electricity. I would have an electronics technician remove the old parts for you. They should be able to dispose of the old picture tube for you also. Once you have an empty cabinet you can measure how much space you have for an lcd panel and figure out mounting hardware inside the old cabinet or console.

You'd be much better off if you built a 60's style cabinet around an existing lcd or plasma. Much cheaper off too. You'd basically be ripping out everything but the cabinet anyways.