There's an RCA CT-100 in Brazil!!!

[fsjonsey]

It's amazing where things can end up. I own a 1962 Corvair, and i know that they have turned up as far away as the Ukraine, Iraq, and Australia.

[Captain Video]

I know of VW Beetles on some very unlikely places to find such a car, such as Afghanistan and Japan.

[peverett]

I have seen a 1958 Ford on a vacation in the United Kingdom, a 1957 Chevy and a Caddy on a vacation in Israel and a 1953 Ford on a vacation to Cancun Mexico. I know a person who left a Pontiac Fiero in Ireland when moving back to the US. American cars turn up in odd places.

(As an interesting side, I visited China for work a couple of years ago and saw ads for a Ford Maverick-an SUV there, not the economy car of 30 years ago here.)

[Gianni]

So, this is not the first known 15GP22 based TV with a PAL oscillator in it?
I am sorry for this, but you got a very beautiful and intresting TV anyhow! D:

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Gianni

So, this is not the first known 15GP22 based TV with a PAL oscillator in it?
D:

I am not sure I understand this question. Brazil uses PAL-M, that is, the same 525-line scan and color subcarrier as NTSC, but the CT-100 would not have the necessary line-by-line phase alternation to decode PAL correctly.

Is that what you were asking?

[Captain Video]

For the best of my knowledge, this TV is a 100% original in it's American specifications, hadn't suffered a single adaptation since it was bought. When it received color signals, please note, it was in 1963, when experimental NTSC color broadcasts were made here. By 1970 - when they were already preparing to adopt PAL-M - the CT-100 was already retired, due to vertical failure. It never witnessed PAL-M color... so far.

[Gianni]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

I am not sure I understand this question. Brazil uses PAL-M, that is, the same 525-line scan and color subcarrier as NTSC, but the CT-100 would not have the necessary line-by-line phase alternation to decode PAL correctly.

Is that what you were asking?

Yes!

Originally Posted by Captain Video

For the best of my knowledge, this TV is a 100% original in it's American specifications, hadn't suffered a single adaptation since it was bought. When it received color signals, please note, it was in 1963, when experimental NTSC color broadcasts were made here. By 1970 - when they were already preparing to adopt PAL-M - the CT-100 was already retired, due to vertical failure. It never witnessed PAL-M color... so far.

Well, thanks to his vertical failure your set hadn't suffered a thing like...
...this attachement!
I have not ate the sardines, that circuit is NOT tested and i do NOT advise anyone to test it, however i was thinking of a circuit like it.
I am happy because you has now a genuine CT - 100, of course...

[Captain Video]

That is a very curious device!!!

UNFORTUNATELY, that CT-100 is not mine, is from some guy that I don't even know in person. I still didn't managed ( financially speaking ) to put my hands in the very commom Brazilian Philco Predicta... just imagine a CT-100!!!

It is COMPLETELY out of my reach.

[Gianni]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

An amazing discovery I made yesterday: reading the commentaries on an YouTube video, posted by a friend of mine, there was this guy claiming that he has a CT-100. Skeptically, I wrote a message to him, asking if it was REALLY an RCA CT-100, the world's first color TV set.

Here's a translation of his reply:

"My grandfather ( who is still alive ) was in the USA in 1954, and saw the Rose Parade in a CT-100 in a hotel. He was so impressed that he decided that he would buy one and bring it to Brazil. When he arrived he even had a party at his home, to celebrate the "inauguration" of color TV. He was very disappointed, however, for the TV would only show colored snow and regular black and white pictures.

Yes, dear Captain Video, i forgot about this story, but i was too happy for the brazilian CT - 100.

Was the "color - killer" working when that set showed a "colored snow"?

[miniman82]

This thread piqued my interest, any updates/pics?

[Pete Deksnis]

FYI:

Back in March 2008, the CT-100 identified as the 130th known set was assigned to B8001132 since open questions about this set, B8001150, were unresolved.

This set is not yet officially on the Living List of CT-100's.

Pete

[Captain Video]

Unfortunately, I have been completely unable to get closer to this precious set. The owner is, well, kind of a difficult person, he is not someone willing to let a complete stranger get inside his house and take pictures of his CT-100.

I would LOVE to see this TV in person ( I have never seen a CT-100 in person ), but for that I would need the goodwill of the owner, and all my contacts with him regarding this matter were frustrating.

Oh well. I can only hope that, with the increased interest that vintage TVs are receiving here in this country, that someday he decides to come public with his ultra-rare possesion, and share it with the TV collector community.

[jr_tech]

Interesting story...I had never seen this thread, glad it popped back to the top!

"My grandfather ( who is still alive ) was in the USA in 1954, and saw the Rose Parade in a CT-100 in a hotel...."

Were many of these sets (I assume the earlier "model 5") set up in hotels for the Rose Parade demo? Is there a list of the chosen demo sites posted somewhere?

just curious,
jr

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Interesting story...I had never seen this thread, glad it popped back to the top!

"My grandfather ( who is still alive ) was in the USA in 1954, and saw the Rose Parade in a CT-100 in a hotel...."

Were many of these sets (I assume the earlier "model 5") set up in hotels for the Rose Parade demo? Is there a list of the chosen demo sites posted somewhere?

just curious,
jr

Here is a link to Ed Reitan's "History of Color Television" site that discribes his viewing, as a child, of the 1-1-54 Rose Parade in color on an RCA Model 5 at a hotel in Omaha, Neb.
http://www.novia.net/~ereitan/rose_parade.html

-Steve D.

[radio63]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

Unfortunately, I have been completely unable to get closer to this precious set. The owner is, well, kind of a difficult person, he is not someone willing to let a complete stranger get inside his house and take pictures of his CT-100.

I would LOVE to see this TV in person ( I have never seen a CT-100 in person ), but for that I would need the goodwill of the owner, and all my contacts with him regarding this matter were frustrating.

Oh well. I can only hope that, with the increased interest that vintage TVs are receiving here in this country, that someday he decides to come public with his ultra-rare possesion, and share it with the TV collector community.

Rather than you going to his house to take picutres of the CT-100, how about your asking him to e-mail you some pictures of his set? Maybe he might be more at ease if you asked him to send you pictures instead of you going into his house. Just a thought. Good luck!

Gilbert