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Captain Video 07-02-2017 08:34 PM

Late 50's ad
 
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Excessive optimism or just dishonest adverstising? This ad claims that this TV is the "movie screen biggest rival"! I happen to have this TV, by the way.

dieseljeep 07-02-2017 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Video (Post 3186290)
Excessive optimism or just dishonest adverstising? This ad claims that this TV is the "movie screen biggest rival"! I happen to have this TV, by the way.

In an Emerson ad, the quote was "The picture is so sharp and clear, you'd swear you were at the movies."
About the same Hype! :thmbsp:

Sandy G 07-02-2017 09:37 PM

Just imagin, if you happnd to b a kid, & on of thos 1950s bug-yd monstrs cam on...

Celt 07-03-2017 01:27 PM

Wishful thinking methinks...

Robert Grant 07-05-2017 11:38 AM

I wish I still had a particular issue of Life from 1955, which has a full-page ad for the ElDorado by Crosley (no relation to the later Emerson Eldorado).

It superimposed an image of the set onto the interior of the Palace of Versailles, and had the most overblown hype of a product I had ever read.

My friend and I would always toss one puffery line back and forth, with a phony British aristocracy accent:

"I possess the world's finest television receiver"


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