My parents had a 1972 Sylvania TV that looked very much like this one. It was a workhorse, running for 18 years almost every day. It died in 1990 when I went away to college. They bought a Zenith that didn't last even 10 years. Still wish they had the old Sylvania repaired instead of replaced - it would probably still be working.
Zenith had fallen from glory and become just a name for Chinese junk by 1990. Allowing the entire consumer electronics industry to be destroyed was insanity.
I worked on so many of these sets....just watching this video I can almost smell the chassis...those vintage model TV's had their own smell of electronics from the tubes to the resistors etc...!!! I soo miss those days of service carrying my tube caddy and knocking on the cust's doors , They would all say the same thing....TV guys here, the TV went on the fritz...LOL...Miss the great days of TV servicing..!!! Also, was a great model to service, it was a well built chassis with a relatively good pic tube which we could get them cheap enough NEW or rebuilts and we could sell a pic tube repair, and convergence wasn't a nightmare to adjust either..!!!
@@kekonica206 ....I wish I did, I myself am starting to look around for these vintage TV's to restore, I do know that FB has a few vintage electronics site s or pages....try Shango 066 ,he's big into the vintage TV's.. Good luck and let me know how you make out. Thx and best wishes.
@shaunigothictv1003 ...you know, it wasn't like today with the cell phone's, you can do a selfie....but, it really was a great time....I don't understand how it seems like it was a few yrs ago, it was over 45 yrs ago..! 😀
I serviced Sylvania sets in the early 70's for a local distributor... worked on a lot of D12 chassis like this one. Best thing Sylvania did was plug in transistors... watch for the 18k resistor on the horizontal oscillator tube to change in value which will cause early failure of the 6LR6 output tube.. replace it with a 1 watt unit. The remote uses a high frequency transducer...PIA to tune the remote control receiver... wow... that was a long time ago... got out of the servicing business mid 70's.
I'd sure like to run into a nice person like you that could convert a beautiful console TV for me to the new digital channels. I sure miss having that piece of furniture in my home. And hate the picture quality...for a flat screen you have to be sitting right in front of it to see the picture. If I sit in my chair (to the side of the room) all I see is black or distorted images. It sucks! And it's not a small flat screen...not huge but big enough for our small home.
+Loren... They make converter boxes so that you can use a TV without an ATSC tuner. Even if the TV doesn't have a composite in, you can use a VCR to provide the composite to RF line.
@@tarstarkusz And most DTV converter boxes have a RF output built-in already, so you can just plug one in to the antenna input of an older set with a coaxial cable (and a coax-to-twin lead adapter if the set only has antenna terminals and no coax connector), and Bob's your uncle. :)
we still are...and for pieces of crap that just get in the way and have terrible picture quality. Digital TV are a big FAIL in my opinion. I don't care for the flat TV's at all. No character whatsoever.
I have a few CRT sets in my collection. Nothing as vintage as this, but I do have a few old Sony's and I have one from the last run of standard definition Sony. Has everything, velocity modulation, dynamic focus, and a perfectly flat (thus the need for VM and DF) tube. Only a 20" and it weighs a ton. I also have a Videomagic in my collection. Look that one up. They are rare as hens teeth.
I remember that even in the late 60s it was a big deal to have a color set. I was just a kid and many of the kids in school just had a black and white tv. Friends used to come over to watch the wizard of Oz and Batman because they didn't have a color tv. I was lucky, I had a little b/w tv in my room. I remember my teacher said I was lying when I said we had a color tv and 2 B/W TV's. My uncle had connections with the manufacturer and we were able to get them extremely cheap. The one I had was a trade in that was refurbished. Kids these days have no clue how it was back then. I remember when we had one tv and only a few channels. We watched whatever our parents were watching. The reason I was going to comment, before I started to ramble on, my Aunt had that same model. We had a RCA color TV's growing up.
I been a technician for 40yrs. Worked on all these all tube /hybrid sets solid state sets. That shunt tube is the regulator for the hi. Voltage . At zero brightness dark screen you adjust the hi. V for 25,000vdc. If the reg. Shunt tube ckt is not working correctly then you will get blooming out when you turn up the brightness.
My uncle worked at the plant in Batavia, NY where these sets were made. Sad to see all the manufacturing jobs go away. The problems encountered in most flat screen sets can't even be repaired by a TV service man that is if you can find one!
Todays TV's were designed to basically just last through the warranty period just in Time to see the newer even more hi tech Sets. I'm not kidding. Some do last quite a bit longer, which is nice to see, but they are no longer intended to be repaired. For many Years I was friends with a TV Technician. I saw 1st Hand, the "Morphing" from the Mexican Glass & Plastic "front Heavy" TV's (which He said were built half decently), to the Plasma Flat screens, which He said were "A waste of Time" "they are so prone to failure" "I cannot make ANY $$ fixing these %$#^ things". .."cheaper to buy a new one"
Nice catch! Just some friendly advice from a display calibrator: Keep Contrast as low as possible while still getting a bright picture. It drives overall display light output. Set brightness at or just above its midpoint, so details show in dark scenes or dark surfaces. Set all the others roughly in the middle and you should have a more than acceptable image. Altogether too many folks kept or left the Contrast too high on these CRTs, shortening their lives prematurely. Same with the 'backlight' on LCD and LED flat panels.
The bad shunt regulator reminds me of a personal experience. In the 1970s, I picked up a second hand console Magnavox TV in excellent cosmetic condition, but with a worn out CRT. I replaced the picture tube and my family used it as our main TV for several years before the picture started cycling between bright and dim. The problem was elusive to chase down. I worked on it, off and on,. for about 6 months, using another set as our main TV. Eventually, I found that the shunt regulator socket, which was hand wired and not on a circuit board, had been mis-wired at the factory. Once I corrected the error, the set worked fine. How the set went through one CRT and part way into another without acting up, and then it became a hard fault, defies explanation. Apparently, the wiring error took the shunt regulator out of the circuit. Regarding those white lines sloped upward to the right, resulting from Macrovision, the NTSC standards call for a series of black lines following the vertical sync lines. Many early TV sets, counting on the video signal to be black, did not blank the video signal during the retrace, where several lines are drawn on the screen while the beam returns from the bottom to the top. If you turned up the brightness, black became gray and the retrace lines appeared. So, vertical blanking, where the beam was shut off, was added in later designs. Macrovision adds white areas to lines in the retrace interval. If the vertical blanking is only partial, allowing some white to get through, the white in the retrace lines show up on the screen. Note that the video signal is sent inverted. The carrier is strongest at maximum black and weakest at brightest white. There is some carrier at minimum white, needed for inter-carrier sound in the TV to work. Early TV sets sampled the vertical retrace for AGC. However, airplane flutter is rapid enough that more frequent sampling is required. So, designers used keyed AGC, sampling the horizontal sync interval on every line, to improve the AGC. By the time VCRs were on the market, virtually every TV used keyed AGC. However, VCR designs started using vertical interval sampling to improve the AGC for recording, but not playback. The Macrovision engineers figured that out and added the white areas to interfere with recording. Early VCRs record the Macrovsion tapes just fine. Videotapes record the vertical interval, but DVDs do not include it in the recording, with players inserting the sync pulses on playback. Players insert the Macrovision when data encoded on the DVD instructs them to do so. DVD copy programs may turn the Macrovision instruction off on the DVD copy. The FCC was petitioned to modify the broadcast TV standards to allow Macrovision, but it turned down the request, presumably because Macrovision would cause problems for some receivers, such as the 1970 Sylvania CF521. Of course, that Sylvania may be designed to do vertical blanking, but have a fault in the vertical blanking circuit. "Compatible color" was not completely compatible. There are stories of the "color burst", 8 cycles of the color subcarrier on the horizontal sync "back porch", showing up on the screen during the horizontal retrace on some B/W TV sets.
Those were beautiful little sets in their day and had a fantastic picture. They were more reliable than RCA but not on a level with Zenith. I've been fixing TVs since 1969. The motors for the remote seem so ridiculously primitive now.
as big as America is there must be allot of new old stock laying around in old warehouses maybe even tvs from the the 1950s. lol wish I had some of them. I love your videos please keep them coming.
Nice. Sylvania seemed to make nice sets. That picture really does look nice, I can tell there are quite a few artifacts from the modern camcorder recording the set. That will be a nice one when it is all done.
Oh it's a fine TV that I would be proud to own. Sure would be nice if I had mine from when I was growing up. I would have it somehow rigged to pick up the new digital channels. You are just soooo fortunate!
Ironic that the shunt regulator tube shorted out. In 1970, Sylvania ran magazine ads with the title "Shortstop" proclaiming their HV rectifier and shunt regulator tubes were redesigned to prevent shorts.
Those Sylvania sets had amazing color. Our table model 19 inch was superb. Lasted only about ten years though ... lost one of the colors on the picture tube and eventually one of the circuits shorted out.
only in america you could find a NOS tv from that era....too much space too much warehouses, desert areas etc.... here every single square centimeter of an abandoned place is fully scavenged only days after it shuts its doors off and everything is scrapped or sold online
Man the remote for that thing will be rare as rocking horse sh!t I bet. Interesting tele, interesting that the old set shows the "macro vision" signals in the picture or was that the converter. I've found if you junk the RF output box in an old VCR you should be able to get a set top box on it or anything that outputs composite
I saw some old sets like this being thrown away, i was at a recycle day collection center, problem us once the stuff is tossed on the pile you couldn't touch it.. I guess i would have to be there when people are off loading their cars and grab it before it gets to the trash pile.
Watching this in 2022. --Very impressive "new" picture. Though it would be interesting to know the story of who kept the TV around for so many decades without giving in to the temptation of playing it, and why. --Also, if the tags were kept on the set and the new owners manual is attached, then who lost/misplaced the remote?
Wow, cool set! It really looks good. Someone must have fired up the flux capacitor to find one in this shape! :) Do those old caps dry out when they are not used and basically in storage like this set was?
Guessing from the remote sensor, it used an ultrasonic remote instead of infrared? I remember when I was a kid my parents had a 70s Zenith TV that had an ultrasonic remote.
Reminds me of my grandfathers old1972 D16 series chassis......they both used same picture tube.....a very bullet proof tube/ they outlasted the chassis.....
I cannot believe how much power that thing uses! 300 watts. I have a TV from around 1987 that is larger and a color TV with 6 speaker stereo sound that tops out 65 watts IIRC.
lol. i'd rather pay $700 for that ' cutting edge ' television set than $1500 on a laptop with last year's processor and a kiddy toy OS more limited than a Nokia 3310
$699 is still a lot of money to some of us, even in (nearly) 2020. Wish I had that much just lying around, without without having to liquidate a lot of stuff.
Me too! I dearly miss having a real TV that was the focal piece of furniture in our home. Not to mention beautiful old stereo cabinets. Those were where you put the special decorations or a good report card when we were young.
I don’t know how you find new old stock 0 hour mid 60’s sets like this, but I’m not far from you and I would fork out an absolute fortune for one if I could find it!
I remember when the times were changing and we went to the TV store to buy a "good TV" while we still could. And it was a beauty...I think it was a Magnovox, but our family usually had Zenith products. It was in a maple wood cabinet and a large piece of furniture with a beautiful large picture tube. We were so very proud of it. Can't tell you how many times I cleaned and waxed it along with the rest of the house as a kid. It had to have been in the mid 70's. Portable TV's were becoming the thing. And tacky TV stands to set them on. Appalling! Nice to have a TV to set in another room. But nothing should have ever taken the place of these works of craftsmanship. I need a time machine bad!
"Set"? A set of what? A "set" is normally a group of things that belong together but aren't joined together as a unit, like a set of encyclopedias, a set of wrenches, a set of silverware, a set of chessmen, and so on. If a TV is a "set" then so is everything else that has more than one part: a toaster, a car, a PC, a toilet, and countless other things. Is calling it a "set" a generational thing, a regional thing, or both? I grew up in Maine in the late 1970s and 1980s and nearly everyone called it "a TV" as far back as I can remember. I only ever heard "set" (or "TV set" or "television set") from senior citizens, and most of them would be dead by now. The same goes for the entertainment gizmo that predated TVs: "a radio." I don't think I've ever heard anyone call a radio a "set" or "radio set" in real life; I've only heard it in videos about vintage radios. Are you guys who say "set" just trying to sound "old-timey" or what?
My parents had a 1972 Sylvania TV that looked very much like this one. It was a workhorse, running for 18 years almost every day. It died in 1990 when I went away to college. They bought a Zenith that didn't last even 10 years. Still wish they had the old Sylvania repaired instead of replaced - it would probably still be working.
Zenith had fallen from glory and become just a name for Chinese junk by 1990. Allowing the entire consumer electronics industry to be destroyed was insanity.
This set was made at the Sylvania plant in Batavia,NY. My uncle worked there a few years until the plant closed and moved down south.
I worked on so many of these sets....just watching this video I can almost smell the chassis...those vintage model TV's had their own smell of electronics from the tubes to the resistors etc...!!!
I soo miss those days of service carrying my tube caddy and knocking on the cust's doors , They would all say the same thing....TV guys here, the TV went on the fritz...LOL...Miss the great days of TV servicing..!!!
Also, was a great model to service, it was a well built chassis with a relatively good pic tube which we could get them cheap enough NEW or rebuilts and we could sell a pic tube repair, and convergence wasn't a nightmare to adjust either..!!!
Do you know a good place I can get a vintage tv like the one in the video?
@@kekonica206 ....I wish I did, I myself am starting to look around for these vintage TV's to restore, I do know that FB has a few vintage electronics site s or pages....try Shango 066 ,he's big into the vintage TV's..
Good luck and let me know how you make out.
Thx and best wishes.
@@frankpitochelli6786 Thanks for the help, I will try face book :)
@@frankpitochelli6786Good memories Frank.
You should have taken some photos of yourself repairing TVs in the 1970s.
@shaunigothictv1003 ...you know, it wasn't like today with the cell phone's, you can do a selfie....but, it really was a great time....I don't understand how it seems like it was a few yrs ago, it was over 45 yrs ago..!
😀
I serviced Sylvania sets in the early 70's for a local distributor... worked on a lot of D12 chassis like this one. Best thing Sylvania did was plug in transistors... watch for the 18k resistor on the horizontal oscillator tube to change in value which will cause early failure of the 6LR6 output tube.. replace it with a 1 watt unit. The remote uses a high frequency transducer...PIA to tune the remote control receiver... wow... that was a long time ago... got out of the servicing business mid 70's.
I'd sure like to run into a nice person like you that could convert a beautiful console TV for me to the new digital channels. I sure miss having that piece of furniture in my home. And hate the picture quality...for a flat screen you have to be sitting right in front of it to see the picture. If I sit in my chair (to the side of the room) all I see is black or distorted images. It sucks! And it's not a small flat screen...not huge but big enough for our small home.
Plasma sets have wide viewing angle.
+Loren... They make converter boxes so that you can use a TV without an ATSC tuner. Even if the TV doesn't have a composite in, you can use a VCR to provide the composite to RF line.
@@tarstarkusz And most DTV converter boxes have a RF output built-in already, so you can just plug one in to the antenna input of an older set with a coaxial cable (and a coax-to-twin lead adapter if the set only has antenna terminals and no coax connector), and Bob's your uncle. :)
@@RyanSchweitzer77 But don't they (converter boxes) only have ATSC input and no NTSC input and only NTSC output?
I love these old tvs with the wooden cabinets & legs. Reminds me of ours as a kid in the late 70's & all through the 80's. 📺❤️👍🏻
most of those who see this video probably don't realize how extremely expensive this television was back then
Just checked, the purchase price of $700 in 1970 is the equivalent of $4359 in 2015 dollars. People were paying dearly for their TV's back in the day
we still are...and for pieces of crap that just get in the way and have terrible picture quality. Digital TV are a big FAIL in my opinion. I don't care for the flat TV's at all. No character whatsoever.
I have a few CRT sets in my collection. Nothing as vintage as this, but I do have a few old Sony's and I have one from the last run of standard definition Sony. Has everything, velocity modulation, dynamic focus, and a perfectly flat (thus the need for VM and DF) tube. Only a 20" and it weighs a ton. I also have a Videomagic in my collection. Look that one up. They are rare as hens teeth.
I live in Asia, they still sell some new CRT sets over here, but mostly cheap Chinese brands.
@@rsattahipInteresting. I thought ALL CRT production ceased about 20 years ago.
I remember that even in the late 60s it was a big deal to have a color set. I was just a kid and many of the kids in school just had a black and white tv. Friends used to come over to watch the wizard of Oz and Batman because they didn't have a color tv. I was lucky, I had a little b/w tv in my room. I remember my teacher said I was lying when I said we had a color tv and 2 B/W TV's. My uncle had connections with the manufacturer and we were able to get them extremely cheap. The one I had was a trade in that was refurbished. Kids these days have no clue how it was back then. I remember when we had one tv and only a few channels. We watched whatever our parents were watching. The reason I was going to comment, before I started to ramble on, my Aunt had that same model. We had a RCA color TV's growing up.
Amazing those type of sets can still be found. I wish there were more old shortwave receivers and HAM radios in NOS condition
Wow, $699 in the 1960s!! No wonder they built them well!!
RetroGamerVX About 4k todays $ ?
What a pity most of the network programming back then wasn't worth the price of the TV.
@@luisreyes1963 better than nothin
They were expensive because it was a newish technology and were highly unreliable
Geez it would be so cool to have a new old stock TV from the 60s!
You mean to tell me that this has been sitting unused since I was a boy of 10 years old .
Outstanding.
I have a 1982 color console sylvania tv, really nice cabinet and excellent condition, its our main tv
I been a technician for 40yrs. Worked on all these all tube /hybrid sets solid state sets. That shunt tube is the regulator for the hi. Voltage . At zero brightness dark screen you adjust the hi. V for 25,000vdc. If the reg. Shunt tube ckt is not working correctly then you will get blooming out when you turn up the brightness.
My uncle worked at the plant in Batavia, NY where these sets were made. Sad to see all the manufacturing jobs go away. The problems encountered in most flat screen sets can't even be repaired by a TV service man that is if you can find one!
Todays TV's were designed to basically just last through the warranty period just in Time to see the newer even more hi tech Sets.
I'm not kidding.
Some do last quite a bit longer, which is nice to see, but they are no longer intended to be repaired.
For many Years I was friends with a TV Technician.
I saw 1st Hand, the "Morphing" from the Mexican Glass & Plastic "front Heavy" TV's (which He said were built half decently), to the Plasma Flat screens, which He said were "A waste of Time" "they are so prone to failure" "I cannot make ANY $$ fixing these %$#^ things". .."cheaper to buy a new one"
Amazing I like looking at these old electronics.
Nice catch! Just some friendly advice from a display calibrator: Keep Contrast as low as possible while still getting a bright picture. It drives overall display light output. Set brightness at or just above its midpoint, so details show in dark scenes or dark surfaces. Set all the others roughly in the middle and you should have a more than acceptable image. Altogether too many folks kept or left the Contrast too high on these CRTs, shortening their lives prematurely. Same with the 'backlight' on LCD and LED flat panels.
The bad shunt regulator reminds me of a personal experience. In the 1970s, I picked up a second hand console Magnavox TV in excellent cosmetic condition, but with a worn out CRT. I replaced the picture tube and my family used it as our main TV for several years before the picture started cycling between bright and dim. The problem was elusive to chase down. I worked on it, off and on,. for about 6 months, using another set as our main TV. Eventually, I found that the shunt regulator socket, which was hand wired and not on a circuit board, had been mis-wired at the factory. Once I corrected the error, the set worked fine. How the set went through one CRT and part way into another without acting up, and then it became a hard fault, defies explanation. Apparently, the wiring error took the shunt regulator out of the circuit.
Regarding those white lines sloped upward to the right, resulting from Macrovision, the NTSC standards call for a series of black lines following the vertical sync lines. Many early TV sets, counting on the video signal to be black, did not blank the video signal during the retrace, where several lines are drawn on the screen while the beam returns from the bottom to the top. If you turned up the brightness, black became gray and the retrace lines appeared. So, vertical blanking, where the beam was shut off, was added in later designs. Macrovision adds white areas to lines in the retrace interval. If the vertical blanking is only partial, allowing some white to get through, the white in the retrace lines show up on the screen.
Note that the video signal is sent inverted. The carrier is strongest at maximum black and weakest at brightest white. There is some carrier at minimum white, needed for inter-carrier sound in the TV to work.
Early TV sets sampled the vertical retrace for AGC. However, airplane flutter is rapid enough that more frequent sampling is required. So, designers used keyed AGC, sampling the horizontal sync interval on every line, to improve the AGC. By the time VCRs were on the market, virtually every TV used keyed AGC. However, VCR designs started using vertical interval sampling to improve the AGC for recording, but not playback. The Macrovision engineers figured that out and added the white areas to interfere with recording. Early VCRs record the Macrovsion tapes just fine.
Videotapes record the vertical interval, but DVDs do not include it in the recording, with players inserting the sync pulses on playback. Players insert the Macrovision when data encoded on the DVD instructs them to do so. DVD copy programs may turn the Macrovision instruction off on the DVD copy.
The FCC was petitioned to modify the broadcast TV standards to allow Macrovision, but it turned down the request, presumably because Macrovision would cause problems for some receivers, such as the 1970 Sylvania CF521. Of course, that Sylvania may be designed to do vertical blanking, but have a fault in the vertical blanking circuit.
"Compatible color" was not completely compatible. There are stories of the "color burst", 8 cycles of the color subcarrier on the horizontal sync "back porch", showing up on the screen during the horizontal retrace on some B/W TV sets.
Excellent knowledge.
Those were beautiful little sets in their day and had a fantastic picture. They were more reliable than RCA but not on a level with Zenith. I've been fixing TVs since 1969. The motors for the remote seem so ridiculously primitive now.
Woooow!!! That's freaking amazing!!! I'd love to have something like that someday.
always nice to see NOS sets like this ..
as big as America is there must be allot of new old stock laying around in old warehouses maybe even tvs from the the 1950s. lol wish I had some of them. I love your videos please keep them coming.
Bill Harris i know where two NOS tvs from the 50’s are
Nice boat anchor!
Good old memories with my grand parents
WOW !! Great receiver. Poderosa 6LR6, válvula de salida horizontal. Great video. Poderoso Chango 066.
Oh boy! It's briliant! I like stuf like this one. Amazing.
I recall watching Sonny and Cher live back in the 70's on my Aunt and Uncle's Sylvania color TV which looked just like that one.
Very nice tv, look forward to seeing the video of it playing after you restore it
My family had the same set without the remote it lasted for years till about 1977
I worked in gas pipeline construction.Worked many hours to afford one & hardly ever home to watch it.
Very nice. I remember these. Thanks for sharing
Liked this and the picture wasn't bad once it got the new shunt fitted. Either way, I think I'll stick with my LED Sony Bravia thanks.
Worked on 100's of these
Wow I was not expecting that price!
where on earth exists a nos tv from that era?! this should be a museum piece!
Those 60s and 70s TVs were very expensive because they were built in America. $700. In that year a new VW Bug was $1800
Nice find. Get a cabinet maker to repair that nick and make yourself a retro giggetty room like quagmire.
The Dollar Guy I'd buy that for a dollar
Warranty registration is on an IBM punch card...
I'd like to see him fill it out and mail it in. He did buy it in 2013, after all, so he could enter that date.
oh I miss the 'clunk clunk' of the channel knobs!
Pretty clean chassis of most I seen we're covered in a lot of dust
Nice. Sylvania seemed to make nice sets. That picture really does look nice, I can tell there are quite a few artifacts from the modern camcorder recording the set.
That will be a nice one when it is all done.
Oh it's a fine TV that I would be proud to own. Sure would be nice if I had mine from when I was growing up. I would have it somehow rigged to pick up the new digital channels. You are just soooo fortunate!
Awesome set hope you get it working again
Ironic that the shunt regulator tube shorted out. In 1970, Sylvania ran magazine ads with the title "Shortstop" proclaiming their HV rectifier and shunt regulator tubes were redesigned to prevent shorts.
That regulator wasn't shorted, it had "aired" at some point in it's life.
Those Sylvania sets had amazing color. Our table model 19 inch was superb. Lasted only about ten years though ... lost one of the colors on the picture tube and eventually one of the circuits shorted out.
My Dad would check the ultrasonic pickup by shaking his keys in front of the pickup. Great set!
Incredible find!!!
i used to have those old tv's now i wish i had one just for decorations..
Боже!!!! Какой роскошный дизайн, мне бы такой поставить в зал для украшения.. ставьте лайки.....
great find, Truly awesome!!!!!!!!
bizarre. that exact disc of that exact season of the Simpsons is in my DVD player right now.
only in america you could find a NOS tv from that era....too much space too much warehouses, desert areas etc.... here every single square centimeter of an abandoned place is fully scavenged only days after it shuts its doors off and everything is scrapped or sold online
excellent point
Man the remote for that thing will be rare as rocking horse sh!t I bet. Interesting tele, interesting that the old set shows the "macro vision" signals in the picture or was that the converter. I've found if you junk the RF output box in an old VCR you should be able to get a set top box on it or anything that outputs composite
I saw some old sets like this being thrown away, i was at a recycle day collection center, problem us once the stuff is tossed on the pile you couldn't touch it.. I guess i would have to be there when people are off loading their cars and grab it before it gets to the trash pile.
Inflation considered this TV would have cost $5,186.85 in todays money!
The style of the cabinet reminds me of Crosby Stills and Nash for some reason.
Streamlined Steamroller Lol
Another 'out of the box' find. Great Stuff :-)
Watching this in 2022. --Very impressive "new" picture. Though it would be interesting to know the story of who kept the TV around for so many decades without giving in to the temptation of playing it, and why. --Also, if the tags were kept on the set and the new owners manual is attached, then who lost/misplaced the remote?
DAMN!!!! I have this Simpsons dvd at home ! :-)
295W wow, talk about efficiency! :P
t0nito mind you it is using vacuum tubes! transistor old colour sets use hardly any power
Back then, electricity was a lot cheaper!
Snowy but clear
Wow, cool set! It really looks good. Someone must have fired up the flux capacitor to find one in this shape! :)
Do those old caps dry out when they are not used and basically in storage like this set was?
Where do you manage tind these NOS sets...it's just amazing! Well done!
Guessing from the remote sensor, it used an ultrasonic remote instead of infrared? I remember when I was a kid my parents had a 70s Zenith TV that had an ultrasonic remote.
Reminds me of my grandfathers old1972 D16 series chassis......they both used same picture tube.....a very bullet proof tube/ they outlasted the chassis.....
Amazing!! Would love to have it if it worked good. $699. Wow. That's what, $2000 today? Wait. Double that?
I cannot believe how much power that thing uses! 300 watts. I have a TV from around 1987 that is larger and a color TV with 6 speaker stereo sound that tops out 65 watts IIRC.
😍😍😍 Beautiful !!
the tv from 1970, the signal for day.
Ready to be on Mad Men.
That price is $5K by todays money!!
What an AMAZING find. Where in the world did you find this?! What a beauty!
It looks alot the Sylvania 21" color I purchaed for $500 in 1965.
wow, thats expensive for 1970. that would be the equivalant of thousands of dollars today!
lol. i'd rather pay $700 for that ' cutting edge ' television set than $1500 on a laptop with last year's processor and a kiddy toy OS more limited than a Nokia 3310
Did you travel back in time to get this piece? Mr. Amberson? :D
I'm surprised the screen is green-ish. Usually B&W TV's had a green screen when turned off, and color TV's had a gray screen when turned off.
$699 was a lot of money back then.
$699 is still a lot of money to some of us, even in (nearly) 2020. Wish I had that much just lying around, without without having to liquidate a lot of stuff.
great set you guys. I'm looking for one. Where is the best place to look for an NOS TV?
I would think eBay or Amazon, I bought myself a TV like this from eBay.
Hi, did you keep it or sell it ? Great TV, I would prefer one of these over anything made today.
Me too! I dearly miss having a real TV that was the focal piece of furniture in our home. Not to mention beautiful old stereo cabinets. Those were where you put the special decorations or a good report card when we were young.
I don’t know how you find new old stock 0 hour mid 60’s sets like this, but I’m not far from you and I would fork out an absolute fortune for one if I could find it!
Is it ultrasonic remote control on that tv ?
Your dog must love it !!! :-)
I wish there was a converter box on it
love your videos, respect from the UK
I hate football with a passion, the tv was invented to be a learning tool
+Sam Gates NOOOOOO lol
Interesting how the Macrovision lines convergence is off.
do you sell these on your own after repaired......i am dying to get one for a nostalgic tv room i want to build.
Over $5600 in todays money as of 2024. DAMN tv's were your biggest investment only after your house and car.
now made by funai along with emerson, symphonic, some magnovox and others
I'd bet all those electrolytic caps are as dry as a powder house!
New old stock parts i can understand but where would you find a set that was nos.
Wow! Wonderful. Surprised thathe CRT did not also become gassy.
What would it co$today?
Wow, where do you find these? Makes you wonder what the story behind it is.
Probably would not be a bad idea to try toggling the service switch. Do a little tapping around just to to see if there is a bad connection.
Nice TV set. I like the nice mains transformer. None of this acdc rubbish.
I always wondered what happened to unsold TVs when the dealer closed their doors.
I remember when the times were changing and we went to the TV store to buy a "good TV" while we still could. And it was a beauty...I think it was a Magnovox, but our family usually had Zenith products. It was in a maple wood cabinet and a large piece of furniture with a beautiful large picture tube. We were so very proud of it. Can't tell you how many times I cleaned and waxed it along with the rest of the house as a kid. It had to have been in the mid 70's. Portable TV's were becoming the thing. And tacky TV stands to set them on. Appalling! Nice to have a TV to set in another room. But nothing should have ever taken the place of these works of craftsmanship. I need a time machine bad!
@lorenrobertson8039 Excellent points.
"Set"? A set of what? A "set" is normally a group of things that belong together but aren't joined together as a unit, like a set of encyclopedias, a set of wrenches, a set of silverware, a set of chessmen, and so on. If a TV is a "set" then so is everything else that has more than one part: a toaster, a car, a PC, a toilet, and countless other things.
Is calling it a "set" a generational thing, a regional thing, or both?
I grew up in Maine in the late 1970s and 1980s and nearly everyone called it "a TV" as far back as I can remember. I only ever heard "set" (or "TV set" or "television set") from senior citizens, and most of them would be dead by now. The same goes for the entertainment gizmo that predated TVs: "a radio." I don't think I've ever heard anyone call a radio a "set" or "radio set" in real life; I've only heard it in videos about vintage radios. Are you guys who say "set" just trying to sound "old-timey" or what?
That set wasnt very realiable to begin with ..Atleast it had a rare earth tube in it and not bonded glass
It's blooming because the 3CU3 HV rectifier tube is weak or somebody was playing with the screens/drives.
Your player is certainly rare. Haven't come across no DVD player with RF conexion.
5:45 that 6bk4 looks like it's lost it's vacuum.
the simpsons season 4 DVD in the 1970 Sylvania CF521 Color Console Television?!? LOL
@BMT "...Mr Plow is a loser, and I hear that he's a boozer..." : )
9:37 TV!