Component television

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'''Component television''' is a form factor in which a television set is sold as a system of separate components, similar to audio components.<ref>[http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h3.html History of the Sony Profeel component television] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060627134424/http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-35/h3.html |date=June 27, 2006 }}</ref> For example, a component television system is a monitor, tuner and speakers sold separately and which can be integrated into a single system. The component television form factor began in 1980 (but became notable in 1982) with Sony's ProFeel television line and became a design fad with many manufacturers until the late 1980s.

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