This can only mean that this TV is A) monstrously complicated and, as a result, B) unreliable. There must be a camera in the little slide carousel that captures the slides for display on the CRT. The cassette mechanism was put in there to provide a soundtrack to your slide show, with some kind of synchronization system - probably an audible beep or some such.
Pretty cool, for the month that it works before it goes "ping" and displays only the slide you shot of your blank TV screen.
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Now you too can bore the stink off your boring friends and family with your boring vacation slides from boring locations such as Newark, New Jersey, West Des Moines, Iowa and Needles, California.
Disclaimer: Simulated boring fishing picture shown. This is as good as it gets, folks. How'd you like to spend $3942 to show this idiot? And in the future, $3942 will be the GDP of Canada.
So I'm trying to figure out how this works. Is it a projector or just an input device like the 2600's adapter? It does seem suprisingly ambitious for that time frame. Interesting find!
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