Very cool TV, you just can't buy that kind of quality anymore, everything is just throw away!!! It is always refreshing seeing folks preserving these pieces of our history, Hats off to you sir!!!
Tell me about it. My Mom held on to her old TV set for decades even though it no longer worked just because it had a really good looking cabinet that was useless for anything else.
My great grandpa had one of the large 1960s ones. Had a built in record player and radio. It finally gave out in 2011. He never wanted to upgrade until the CRT gave out.
First color TV I remember we had was a Motorola. Junior, the local TV repairman was at our house frequently working on it. Dad quickly grew tired of the repair costs and bought a zenith. Great TV, saw junior once a year for a tune up
Oh wow, my aunt had this same TV. It is in a bunch of old family photos, and I remember it well. (First time I got to see Wizard of Oz in color). She had that set for about 10 years or so. It was very dependable. I love your website.
We had a small black and white tv in the kitchen. I used to come home for lunch from school and watch the Flintstones. My grandmother would have my lunch ready when I got home. The tv would get so hot after only being on for half an hour. Oh the good old days.
Wow, just plain awesome! Funny to think there are good odds I watched TV on such sets when I was a kid. Sound is remarkably good too! If only we had a Walter Cronkite today.
I worked my way through college working in TV repair shops in the 60's. As a couple other posters mentioned, roundies were still produced until about 1968. The last shop I worked for did initial setup and warranty service for a Magnavox dealer; and although rectangulars were dominant by that time, they were still selling a few new roundies. I liked them at the time because they were somewhat easier than the rectangulars to adjust for good purity and convergence.
I find the posts of yours fascinating, being " old" enough to remember the advent of color and what a big deal it was if some one had color tv when I was a kid, we got one in 1970. I think it was a Philco Ford, and even then it was a novelty around the neighbour hood, love the period broadcasts , great idea! thanks for the posts.
I remember my Dad going to the local supermarket, sometimes at night, to get a small replacement vacuum tube, when they blew out, which they would on the 1960s sets. They had a tube tester in the front of the store- you had to take all your suspected tubes with you to the store and test them all, to find the bad one. What a hassle.
I remember those tube testers from many moons ago. MAD Magazine claimed those machines "were about as accurate as a $2 watch". Now, I don't remember our 67 Curtis Mathes going down often (but I was just a kid, and didn't always pay attention to the goings on), but I think the later console TV's of the 70's had much improved reliability. I don't remember our '74 Magnavox console TV failing at all. I was in 4th grade when my parents gave the C-M entertainment console to my brother and we got the Magnavox TV. 3 years after that, we got our first remote control set, an RCA Color Track. Little or no manual tuning required. 😊
Wasn't a hassle at all, I enjoyed doing it. I was competent doing it. Fun fixing the TV. Todays young men can't even find their oil dipstick , let alone work on an old TV.
Wow, this looks like the RCA floor model of our first VHF/UHF color television. When my Pop brought it home on Halloween 1970, a whole universe was openned up to my family and I. I used to catch up on all the cartoons that and monster movies that all of my friends used to talk about which I hadn't seen. Thanks for this post.
Beautiful set. Funny waiting for it to warm up like that. Even in the 80s when I was growing up sets would come to life pretty quickly. I do remember, when I was very young, my grandparents having a 60s-era console that would take its time waking up.
When did round tubes finally go. A round tube in a 1966 TV seems a bit old fashioned. But I do love your collection of TVs. I think it is going a bit too far to claim the US alone gave the world the electronics industry but I do agree with your sentiments. It was just plain bad management both in the US and UK that sold us down the river for a fast buck. Keep up the good work my friend. Phillip.
so many memories. for those who did not own a color tv, sears made a 'device' to turn your b&w TV into a color set. it was a flat piece of plastic that adhered to your tv screen by static electricity. it was a tri-colored panel with blue on the top third, red on the middle third and green on the bottom third. A freakish novelty, but it would be fun to see one again.
I love old tvs ....I think its more natural to have a round screen - if you think about it - the tv cameras have round lenses ...so why should the picture come out square
@@brainsareus #AnnoyingMillenials And Yes Im A Generation Z And I Hate Millenials Like You, Millenials Are Good Persons Just As Boomer But You Are An Exception Of A Nice Millenials And #HastagsAreAnnoyingAndThatWasA2015Trend
Good day Wow nice collection! I used to own a 1964 version of that set. Very heavy, & had a larger chassis, but very similar Very good picture! Good job,eh! Ever see any CTC 81 consoles in your travels? I have 2, & 1 portable
When it comes to fixing old TVs, keep in mind the line that Clint Eastwood used in the film "Magnum Force." "A man has got to know his limitations." ." If you're not sure, you're probably going to mess it up even more. Classic TVs like this really need to be repaired by professionals. This set reminds me of the first color set I ever watched as a kid in 1967. My good friend Bob invited me over to this house to watch "Lost In Space" in color. What a treat. Of course being 9 years old I sat on the floor two feet from the screen.
If I remember the two "vertical settings" on this Zenith model ... Vertical Lin and Vertical Height, you need to readjust the "Vertical Lin" ... bring it down on this Zenith TV. Walter's forehead looks to me to be stretched. Brings back memories ... "Ralph The TV Man"
It's sad that America doesn't manufacture televisions anymore. Zenith televisions have always had a reputation for high quality. That news report kind of startled me. I watched that same news report in 1968 on our family's blurry black and white set. I was ten years old at the time.
My father wouldn't buy a color TV for us back in the 60s That was too extravagant for our family budget. $400 for a new color TV in 1968 would be like spending $3,000 today. My dad would say "If you want color go to the movies."
Wow! It was like going back in a time machine. I was only an infant when Martin Luther King was assasinated. This is probably what my parents watched when the news broke.
These early color sets drew so much power that the lights in the house would dim when you switched them on. They generated so much heat that there were constant service issues. You were on a first name basis with your repairman.
In 1980 we brought our 1st brand new Zenith color tv. Seems I waited a life-time to finally have one. Don't know the model, but it was a great TV with great color. Cable had just came out (or to our town) and no static was produced like in the analog/out door/roof antenna days, and it was basic one time color adjustment, although it could be adjusted.. Before that it was the old black and white consoles in the 50's/60's.
This old set has the shunt reg, in the front where the hv cage with the 3a3c would be,, I only touched that quad coil when their was a little buzz . with a slight buzz using a plastic tool . dads busted the ferrit bead with in those coils often.
, bought my Mum her first colour in 1970, a BAIRD 21" model, bought mine in 1973 a Philips 21" which had a superb picture..And the wooden cabinets were beautiful . I always felt the PAL system had a much clearer image than the American system, I was in the UK Merchant Marine and we had a special dual purpose PAL/NTSC set on our ships, as we traded Europe to USA a lot. however in the USA was never impressed with the picture quality. I still love these old sets though, they have character!
6CB6 IFs? Interesting. These were used in most 1950s and many early 60s B&W sets. I remember having to swap out brand new tubes to get these sets to work well with antennas in rural areas. Always carried a bunch of 'em in my tube caddie.
This looks a lot like the one we had. It was an RCA, and was probably made around 1962. It had a place provided to add a UHF tuner, but did not have it. All three major networks were on VHF channels in this area back then, and only one educational station and a secondary CBS affiliate were on UHF, so it wasn't worth the extra expense. I don't think many older sets around here had UHF capability.
I remember watching "Speed Racer" on a b & w "roundie". I don't know the year or remember the make. I do remember during the intro, the Mach 5's front wheel was egg-shaped instead of round, and people's heads almost looked like the "Coneheads" from classic SNL. 😆😆
That is the West Coast feed of the newscast...the shooting occurred around 8 PM ET, after the East/Midwest version ran. It would be interesting to see what the top story was only hours before.
The set would only be 2 years old. That doesn't make a longevity statement !! Everyone would expect a television to last way longer than 2 years. Try again .....
@@johnfranklin5277 No. You did not understand me. What I said is, imagine you are in 1966, the TV set is all new, you just bought it. Then you turn on, and the screen shows a news corresponding to 1968. It was a kind of joke. Sorry, I am from SouthAmerica. 😋
Zenith was still making roundies in 1966? I was only a child, but I'm sure we had a square screen color set in 1966. I believe it was an RCA. That must have been around where they began to fall behind and eventually had to either sell out to Gold Star or go bankrupt. Shame too. They made good products.
Is that one of the latest "Roundie" color tubes? My grandfather bought a Muntz color set in 1964 (though it may have been considered a 1965 model) price about 500 dollars. I remember we hadn't had the set very long when I began to see commercials touting the benefits of rectangular color picture tubes. Seems it wasn't long before we stopped seeing roundies in ads altogether. Although I've tried hard, I've been unsuccessful in finding a picture on the web of the model Muntz that we had. Although Muntz TV's were known for being built rather inexpensively, our set worked quite well and had a gorgeous picture.
Roundtubes by that time were an old design,and only 21" screens with the corners appearing to be cut off.Look at the surround to the screen to see what the newer tube screens looked like.The new designs had more deflection and could allow shallower TV sets. The new sizes also could go up to 25" now.
This bradcaster Mr. Walter Cronkite. To this man I have heard him say the word "shot" at least 3 times. First JFK, later in 1968 his brother Robert Kennedy, and M. Looter King here. American, please stop to use weapons. It is cause of results very easy to have one of those at home. Kisses from Stgo / CL
@Sheri451 I can't get my MP3 player to work right. I tried oiling it and washing it in the dishwasher thinking maybe it was dirty inside. No go. I then tried salt water as I heard it disinfects. After that I baked it in the oven at 450 to dry it out. It's even worse now. Guess I have to junk it along with my lawnmower that I ran on a mixture of water and dish soap in the crankcase to clean grass clippings out.
I’m sooooo glad the vintage of the programming matches the vintage of the TV set..... Nothing destroys a nostalgic vibe like 21st century jive turkey programming. Just my opinion.
"there's nothing wrong with your television, we control the vertical and the horizontal. " I would love to see TZ and OL episodes on that thing. I swear if I was rich, I would dedicate an entire section of my huge house to retro stuff (tv's, stereo, video games ecct)
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 1965 01 28 p 1 (Google News Archive) has an ad for a tv almost like this one. Cost $USD 629.95 ($4495 in 2011 dollars). That kind of money buys an 70 inch set today.
Portable panasonic's in the 70's were cheap, but the American made tv's had better color/sound/luxurious cabinetry. I relate that to difference of the quality of wood grown in certain parts of the world which also applies to a pianos sound qualities. Hard Rock Maple is harder wood here in the USA than in Japan & Japan mostly used laminated wood which makes a big difference than most realize.. ie. the old addage; It's cheaper quality & sound.Good explaination - made me think. Regards, James.
Very nice picture just like stepping back in time. I remember seeing that news program when it is live. where did you find that clip I would like to have it for some of my sets.
We had a set just like this one....much earlier than 1966. Maybe as early as 1961? Perhaps this model was in production for several years? And the roundies were gone by 1965, weren't they? In 1966, by parents bought a new set because they wanted to be rid of the 'roundie'.
@drh4683 Sony doesn't make plasma's anymore, the reason being that burn-in is always an issue with plasmas, and sony need not get a headache with warranty claims. It's like preventing a problem by not creating it altogether
Can you inprove the classic problem in old tv screen what it is the disproprtipn of image..? Walter C. has a big head, even being the image complete up and down. How can be repaired this imperfection? Greetings from Stgo. Chile
Very cool TV, you just can't buy that kind of quality anymore, everything is just throw away!!! It is always refreshing seeing folks preserving these pieces of our history, Hats off to you sir!!!
Tell me about it. My Mom held on to her old TV set for decades even though it no longer worked just because it had a really good looking cabinet that was useless for anything else.
My great grandpa had one of the large 1960s ones.
Had a built in record player and radio.
It finally gave out in 2011. He never wanted to upgrade until the CRT gave out.
It's an actual piece of furniture. Now that's craftsmanship!
Wow, seeing that MLK clip with Walter really brought me back, as if I'd climbed aboard a time machine, very powerful and moving.
WOW! That looks just like the first color tv that my wife and I had!
Great restoration. I love how you always put on video clips of the TV playing a program from the year that the set was made it's a really nice touch.
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First color TV I remember we had was a Motorola. Junior, the local TV repairman was at our house frequently working on it. Dad quickly grew tired of the repair costs and bought a zenith. Great TV, saw junior once a year for a tune up
Wow, not just one, but TWO slices of history! Great vids, bring back memories, esp. of these great old sets!
I love how you have the old programs to go with the tvs.. So accurate.
Oh wow, my aunt had this same TV. It is in a bunch of old family photos, and I remember it well. (First time I got to see Wizard of Oz in color). She had that set for about 10 years or so. It was very dependable. I love your website.
That TV is in really good condition. I love that the old TV's used pegboard on the back.
i remember in '66 we had black and white television in our house and loved it
We had a small black and white tv in the kitchen. I used to come home for lunch from school and watch the Flintstones.
My grandmother would have my lunch ready when I got home.
The tv would get so hot after only being on for half an hour.
Oh the good old days.
Wow, just plain awesome! Funny to think there are good odds I watched TV on such sets when I was a kid. Sound is remarkably good too!
If only we had a Walter Cronkite today.
I'm lucky that I live in Canada. Peter Mansbridge is our modern version of Walter Cronkite
I worked my way through college working in TV repair shops in the 60's. As a couple other posters mentioned, roundies were still produced until about 1968. The last shop I worked for did initial setup and warranty service for a Magnavox dealer; and although rectangulars were dominant by that time, they were still selling a few new roundies. I liked them at the time because they were somewhat easier than the rectangulars to adjust for good purity and convergence.
What a beautiful picture that TV has
Yet, you still lose much of the corners.
I find the posts of yours fascinating, being " old" enough to remember the advent of color and what a big deal it was if some one had color tv when I was a kid, we got one in 1970. I think it was a Philco Ford, and even then it was a novelty around the neighbour hood, love the period broadcasts , great idea! thanks for the posts.
I remember my Dad going to the local supermarket, sometimes at night, to get a small replacement vacuum tube, when they blew out, which they would on the 1960s sets. They had a tube tester in the front of the store- you had to take all your suspected tubes with you to the store and test them all, to find the bad one. What a hassle.
At least you can fix your own TV set without a degree in Electrical Engineering!
Be thankful those TV tubes weren't made in China, he would have made many more trips for replacements.
I remember those tube testers from many moons ago. MAD Magazine claimed those machines "were about as accurate as a $2 watch". Now, I don't remember our 67 Curtis Mathes going down often (but I was just a kid, and didn't always pay attention to the goings on), but I think the later console TV's of the 70's had much improved reliability. I don't remember our '74 Magnavox console TV failing at all. I was in 4th grade when my parents gave the C-M entertainment console to my brother and we got the Magnavox TV. 3 years after that, we got our first remote control set, an RCA Color Track. Little or no manual tuning required. 😊
Wasn't a hassle at all, I enjoyed doing it. I was competent doing it. Fun fixing the TV. Todays young men can't even find their oil dipstick , let alone work on an old TV.
Tubes are still made today for guitar amplifier's, the majority come from Russia believe it or not.
Wow, this looks like the RCA floor model of our first VHF/UHF color television. When my Pop brought it home on Halloween 1970, a whole universe was openned up to my family and I. I used to catch up on all the cartoons that and monster movies that all of my friends used to talk about which I hadn't seen. Thanks for this post.
Interesting watching these old tube sets warm up. Our cell phones and tablets take three times as long to "boot up".
I can still see the moon landing in the 60s on this tv like it was yesterday zenith are great tvs
Beautiful set. Funny waiting for it to warm up like that. Even in the 80s when I was growing up sets would come to life pretty quickly. I do remember, when I was very young, my grandparents having a 60s-era console that would take its time waking up.
Those old console TVs looked like pieces of furniture. Beautiful to look at even if they're turned off.
Thats the point. THEY WERE PIECES OF FURNITURE.
I remember this TV in 1966. I was 12 and blown away as it was stae of the art for its time
When did round tubes finally go. A round tube in a 1966 TV seems a bit old fashioned. But I do love your collection of TVs. I think it is going a bit too far to claim the US alone gave the world the electronics industry but I do agree with your sentiments. It was just plain bad management both in the US and UK that sold us down the river for a fast buck.
Keep up the good work my friend. Phillip.
Surprisingly in almost mint condition, sounds very good and the quality of te screen is thinking the time it was build, very good
I dream of owning one of these tv's!
I remember delivering and setting up these and similar Zenihs. Always thought they had a great picture.
The vintage newscast is a nice touch...
so many memories. for those who did not own a color tv, sears made a 'device' to turn your b&w TV into a color set. it was a flat piece of plastic that adhered to your tv screen by static electricity. it was a tri-colored panel with blue on the top third, red on the middle third and green on the bottom third. A freakish novelty, but it would be fun to see one again.
***** We lived about 50 miles from NYC, so the biggest task was getting channel 2. And still is.
I saw a TV with that plastic sheet on it. After a short while, it actually felt like you were watching in color.
In a digital age, I suppose this vintage equipment is just what you need if you want to pick up these old broadcasts. (humor)
we always had RCA's . "you're sitting tooo close to that tv..." and "don't turn the channels so fast...you're gonna tear it up"
Excellent work! Loving the appropriate age News report too.
From the year I was born! Awesome! 🍻 -Cheers! -Al
My first Grandmother use to the same type of tv like that. Let her Rest In Peace.
Awesome TV set dude!
Nice restore on that set and kudos for finding the time period video it makes so much more sense to see it in trying to watch a rock video
a1wireless1964
60s rock would work- although TV audio back then was usually crap.
your a great tech.. your sets are all adjusted properly and set up is excellent
awessome tv! and haha that was recorded on my birthday!
I love old tvs ....I think its more natural to have a round screen - if you think about it - the tv cameras have round lenses ...so why should the picture come out square
I also love old news! lol
I don't see the world as round, do you? #PerceptionFail
@@brainsareus #AnnoyingMillenials
And Yes Im A Generation Z And I Hate Millenials Like You, Millenials Are Good Persons Just As Boomer But You Are An Exception Of A Nice Millenials And
#HastagsAreAnnoyingAndThatWasA2015Trend
Wow my childhood flash back.
Good day
Wow nice collection!
I used to own a 1964 version of that set. Very heavy, & had a larger chassis, but very similar
Very good picture! Good job,eh!
Ever see any CTC 81 consoles in your travels?
I have 2, & 1 portable
great vids that u do i miss working on the sets and sams fotofact folders scott
When it comes to fixing old TVs, keep in mind the line that Clint Eastwood used in the film "Magnum Force." "A man has got to know his limitations." ." If you're not sure, you're probably going to mess it up even more. Classic TVs like this really need to be repaired by professionals. This set reminds me of the first color set I ever watched as a kid in 1967. My good friend Bob invited me over to this house to watch "Lost In Space" in color. What a treat. Of course being 9 years old I sat on the floor two feet from the screen.
If I remember the two "vertical settings" on this Zenith model ... Vertical Lin and Vertical Height, you need to readjust the "Vertical Lin" ... bring it down on this Zenith TV. Walter's forehead looks to me to be stretched. Brings back memories ... "Ralph The TV Man"
It's sad that America doesn't manufacture televisions anymore. Zenith televisions have always had a reputation for high quality. That news report kind of startled me. I watched that same news report in 1968 on our family's blurry black and white set. I was ten years old at the time.
It was an Awesome day!
My father wouldn't buy a color TV for us back in the 60s That was too extravagant for our family budget. $400 for a new color TV in 1968 would be like spending $3,000 today. My dad would say "If you want color go to the movies."
wow! so cool!
how did you get the old shows on it though? thats what i dont understand?
Wow! It was like going back in a time machine. I was only an infant when Martin Luther King was assasinated. This is probably what my parents watched when the news broke.
Very nice! It seems like most of the Zenith black and white sets used the three 7-pin IF tubes like this color set has, either 6BZ6 or maybe 4BZ6?
DAMN THAT SCREEN IS HUGE!
These early color sets drew so much power that the lights in the house would dim when you switched them on. They generated so much heat that there were constant service issues. You were on a first name basis with your repairman.
It would be cool to watch the Twilight Zone on that TV. :)
This tv is so awesome
Thats awesome! I wish I had a cool career like that! Have fun, man!
In 1980 we brought our 1st brand new Zenith color tv. Seems I waited a life-time to finally have one. Don't know the model, but it was a great TV with great color. Cable had just came out (or to our town) and no static was produced like in the analog/out door/roof antenna days, and it was basic one time color adjustment, although it could be adjusted.. Before that it was the old black and white consoles in the 50's/60's.
It seems to me some years ago I saw a 1960s RCA that looks just about like this one.
We had that television. Lol. 😂
This old set has the shunt reg, in the front where the hv cage with the 3a3c would be,, I only touched that quad coil when their was a little buzz . with a slight buzz using a plastic tool . dads busted the ferrit bead with in those coils often.
Es una coleccion,o algunos esta n a la venta,maravillosos.!!!
very nice sound on that set!
, bought my Mum her first colour in 1970, a BAIRD 21" model, bought mine in 1973 a Philips 21" which had a superb picture..And the wooden cabinets were beautiful . I always felt the PAL system had a much clearer image than the American system, I was in the UK Merchant Marine and we had a special dual purpose PAL/NTSC set on our ships, as we traded Europe to USA a lot. however in the USA was never impressed with the picture quality. I still love these old sets though, they have character!
6CB6 IFs? Interesting. These were used in most 1950s and many early 60s B&W sets. I remember having to swap out brand new tubes to get these sets to work well with antennas in rural areas. Always carried a bunch of 'em in my tube caddie.
This looks a lot like the one we had. It was an RCA, and was probably made around 1962. It had a place provided to add a UHF tuner, but did not have it. All three major networks were on VHF channels in this area back then, and only one educational station and a secondary CBS affiliate were on UHF, so it wasn't worth the extra expense. I don't think many older sets around here had UHF capability.
I remember watching "Speed Racer" on a b & w "roundie". I don't know the year or remember the make. I do remember during the intro, the Mach 5's front wheel was egg-shaped instead of round, and people's heads almost looked like the "Coneheads" from classic SNL. 😆😆
I have a chroma color II that sparked like hell when I plugged it in, as if the flyback was arcing
That's the one we had in our living room he had to bang on the floor to stop the rolling
This broadcast was from sometime near April 4th, 1968.
It's as if we traveled back in time. 🕰️
That is the West Coast feed of the newscast...the shooting occurred around 8 PM ET, after the East/Midwest version ran. It would be interesting to see what the top story was only hours before.
The tv set is a 1966 production, but news is 1968. That wants to say that Zenith go furter than others tvs. XD
The set would only be 2 years old. That doesn't make a longevity statement !! Everyone would expect a television to last way longer than 2 years. Try again .....
@@johnfranklin5277 No. You did not understand me. What I said is, imagine you are in 1966, the TV set is all new, you just bought it. Then you turn on, and the screen shows a news corresponding to 1968. It was a kind of joke.
Sorry, I am from SouthAmerica. 😋
Zenith was still making roundies in 1966? I was only a child, but I'm sure we had a square screen color set in 1966. I believe it was an RCA. That must have been around where they began to fall behind and eventually had to either sell out to Gold Star or go bankrupt. Shame too. They made good products.
Is that one of the latest "Roundie" color tubes? My grandfather bought a Muntz color set in 1964 (though it may have been considered a 1965 model) price about 500 dollars. I remember we hadn't had the set very long when I began to see commercials touting the benefits of rectangular color picture tubes. Seems it wasn't long before we stopped seeing roundies in ads altogether.
Although I've tried hard, I've been unsuccessful in finding a picture on the web of the model Muntz that we had. Although Muntz TV's were known for being built rather inexpensively, our set worked quite well and had a gorgeous picture.
Roundtubes by that time were an old design,and only 21" screens with the corners appearing to be cut off.Look at the surround to the screen to see what the newer tube screens looked like.The new designs had more deflection and could allow shallower TV sets. The new sizes also could go up to 25" now.
This bradcaster Mr. Walter Cronkite. To this man I have heard him say the word "shot" at least 3 times. First JFK, later in 1968 his brother Robert Kennedy, and M. Looter King here. American, please stop to use weapons. It is cause of results very easy to have one of those at home. Kisses from Stgo / CL
crist67mustang M. Looter King, lol.
Yes, but many times more lives have been saved by guns...
@Sheri451 I can't get my MP3 player to work right. I tried oiling it and washing it in the dishwasher thinking maybe it was dirty inside. No go. I then tried salt water as I heard it disinfects. After that I baked it in the oven at 450 to dry it out. It's even worse now. Guess I have to junk it along with my lawnmower that I ran on a mixture of water and dish soap in the crankcase to clean grass clippings out.
The x-ray shield. IMO
I’m sooooo glad the vintage of the programming matches the vintage of the TV set.....
Nothing destroys a nostalgic vibe like 21st century jive turkey programming. Just my opinion.
Watching Twilight Zone or Outer Limits on that thing would be absolutely creepy and scary :)
porn too
Or The Matrix in black and white
goober why
"there's nothing wrong with your television, we control the vertical and the horizontal. "
I would love to see TZ and OL episodes on that thing.
I swear if I was rich, I would dedicate an entire section of my huge house to retro stuff (tv's, stereo, video games ecct)
Are you kidding? The only way to watch Twilight Zone is on a 1960’s television!
They did but roundies were still being sold in the US until 1968.
@drh4683 i agree your vids diserv 10000000000 stars they rock i am 11 and love vintage stuff including old electronics:) VINTAGE RULEZ
Hi Doug, is this TV for sale? Thanks! Rich in Connecticut......
Pittsburgh Post Gazette 1965 01 28 p 1 (Google News Archive) has an ad for a tv almost like this one. Cost $USD 629.95 ($4495 in 2011 dollars). That kind of money buys an 70 inch set today.
I wish I could find one of these.
Portable panasonic's in the 70's were cheap, but the American made tv's had better color/sound/luxurious cabinetry. I relate that to difference of the quality of wood grown in certain parts of the world which also applies to a pianos sound qualities. Hard Rock Maple is harder wood here in the USA than in Japan & Japan mostly used laminated wood which makes a big difference than most realize.. ie. the old addage; It's cheaper quality & sound.Good explaination - made me think. Regards, James.
Very nice picture just like stepping back in time. I remember seeing that news program when it is live. where did you find that clip I would like to have it for some of my sets.
Back when one could make a living repairing TVs, before the advent of goddamn Mirco-circuits.
@HadYourPhil Hard to edit after the fact and put the 't' in Zenith.
How would u get classic CBS news intro?
You need to get A Time machine
Maybe he hooked up a vcr
We had a set just like this one....much earlier than 1966. Maybe as early as 1961? Perhaps this model was in production for several years? And the roundies were gone by 1965, weren't they? In 1966, by parents bought a new set because they wanted to be rid of the 'roundie'.
Generally never touched if coils in those old sets..touch up sound coils to get buzz out with a white plastic hex tool..
I can't believe it has vertical hold working. haha
@drh4683
Sony doesn't make plasma's anymore, the reason being that burn-in is always an issue with plasmas, and sony need not get a headache with warranty claims. It's like preventing a problem by not creating it altogether
Yes, dual 6x9 speakers
@jrzy49 Some vacuum tubes give off X-rays - no joke.
Those were great televisions, pull out the bottom and you could service them without removing the chassis, not that they needed service that often.
IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, BY 1966 25" FLAT SCREEN COLOR TV'S WERE AVAILABLE...OR AM I WRONG....??????????
Nice
Can you inprove the classic problem in old tv screen what it is the disproprtipn of image..? Walter C. has a big head, even being the image complete up and down. How can be repaired this imperfection?
Greetings from Stgo. Chile
Why is a 6BZ6 an economy chassis compared to one with a 6EH7? They don't cost much less.
I wonder if this tv will require a converter box.....
wow that's kick ass
I never said anything about the HV rectifier. I said it uses a 6BK4 HV REGULATOR tube.