Circa 1980 my brother and I got our parents a Sony Trinitron TV for their 25th anniversary and put it in the beautiful walnut cabinet their old Sylvania came in. We watched Bonanza, Star Trek, and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color on the Sylvania. We gutted the cabinet and got the best matching Sony we could fit in there, adding trim of about 1" all around the edges and waited for them to open the cabinet.
They went from poo-poo'ing the idea of a remote to spending 10 minutes to finding it to change the channel rather then to step up to the TV. That was funny. Sony's were the sh.t in the day and I had a few.