Magnavox 'Total Automatic Color' TVs Commercial (Early 1970s)
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2013
- Magnavox commercial for their line of TAC (Total Automatic Color) television sets. Spot aired in the early 1970s. Visit www.bionicdisco.com for 1970s pop culture fun.
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Our first color set was a Magnavox. We looked at Zenith, RCA, Packard Bell, Motorola, Admiral, GE, Westinghouse and Magnavox. We got the Magnavox because my dad liked the Auto Color feature, basically the old AFT function, and my mom liked the styling. Price was about the same as the other sets, around $400.00, or in that area. I was just happy we were getting a color set. Also, my dad did not need the remote control option. He had a built in remote, me!
lol..great post
The most beautiful Televisions in the industry! At this time, Popular Science had also recently conducted the most comprehensive test on color consoles ever conducted. TVs were scored on a point basis. An electronics engineer evaluated the chassis...and an art director was on a panel to judge picture quality. Magnavox scored the highest!
This would be around 1971, I have the identical set the woman is opening.
What a great commercial. Love the music.
Now that my idea of a big screen TV. I want a retro console set so much!
Magnavox was on top of the world in this product segment at this time...the most stylish and luxurious TVs in the world.
Gone are the days of simplicity; An easy to use tv and five or six channels; and the worst that ever went wrong was technical dificulties at the station. Now we have 1000 channels broadcasting garbage and sleezy cable companies are robbing us blind.
+WaningMoonBand There are probably about less than 10 channels nowadays that are actually worth watching.
+WaningMoonBand There are probably about less than 10 channels nowadays that are actually worth watching.
You forgot about service call every 6 or 8 months, colors changing as you walked across the room and having to whack the top of the set to stop the picture from rolling. But I agree about the sleazy cable companies; I still use an antenna.
TAC came out in late 1969, so this is circa 1969-1970 probably.
February 17, 2016 12:55 am
Totally 70's!
Yes love it, miss those days.🤔
@@frankrizzo4460 👍
0:21 Oh, nice nice TV, so warm and cuddly!
The background music is very good, anyone knows what name is it?
It appears as 'Soft Spectrum' from De Wolfe Music Library
ruclips.net/video/qScI2vxxENg/видео.htmlsi=ojdp3naJdd1uasWO
I loved it when TVs were almost the same size as washing machines.😁
Simulated television picture❤
Funny how as today we make some modern products with a vintage look resambling the 70's, in the 70's a vintage-looking TV set resambled a piece of furniture from the early 1900s...
That could be. My guess would be a bit earlier.
my parents had one of these magnavox tvs lasted till 1984
Although there was no narrator to explain this, I assume "TAC" meant that you didn't have to re-adjust the color every time you changed channels, or a new program started. Because you did, in fact, have to do that on color TVs before then. We got a color set for Christmas 1963 and you did have to change the settings for color (with one knob) and tint (with another knob) each time - although at first there were so few color programs that this situation didn't come up too often.
Tint was the more crucial control because you used it to go between purple at one extreme and green on the other. You were urged to find the best "skin tone" for people when you adjusted it.
I can remember the early days of color television: it seems you spent a lot more time "fiddling" with the set than actually watching it.
It's a good one. ;)
Magnavox was good.
song?
I think this is from 1973-4
I don't think so. Advertising had a completely different vibe by then.
If it is from the early seventies, it would be 1970-1971. It may even be from the late sixties.
Just my guess.
hey where did you find this clip? I wanna use it in a video and i can't find the orginal
Apologies, but I'm not 100% sure at this point. I believe from a public domain site years ago.
What is this musical piece? I heard the same musical piece in a NASA educational film.
That's interesting to know; so it would be some sort of stock selection from a production music library, like KPM? This sure reminds me a lot of my very early childhood of the early 70s, and the "Beautiful Music" from the radio stations up in Seattle, that my late mother would tune into and have streaming throughout our house on our NuTone intercom system, out in the 'burbs south of there. It really is a pretty, but melacholic selection.
@@QuadMochaMatti I found out what musical piece that is, it's actually here on RUclips too. Enjoy the FULL piece of music here.
ruclips.net/video/qScI2vxxENg/видео.html
@silverbird58 we already stated what it was and it's not Al Hirt.
'Soft Spectrum' from De Wolfe Music Library
ruclips.net/video/qScI2vxxENg/видео.htmlsi=ojdp3naJdd1uasWO
Television nowadays is virtually unwatchable.
A Sony Trinitron out preformed all those brands by a mile.
I find commercials for TV sets so bizarre. If you are impressed with the picture on the TV in the commercial you might as well stick with your old TV because you are watching the commercial through YOUR OLD TV.
The truth is TV was crap back then and it still is!