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Eric H

09-17-2007 10:36 AM

Attn: Zenith people!

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Very cool Zenith item on eBay!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Unique-vintage-1...QQcmdZViewItem

David Roper

09-17-2007 11:20 AM

Too bad it was designed by a clod. Zenith sure was behind the times with color TV, they didn't even have a 15" prototype until 1961!

John Folsom

09-17-2007 11:38 AM

Yeah, 1961 sure looks a lot like my avatar

kx250rider

09-17-2007 11:44 AM

I have a slightly different one of those cups, and the explanation about the wrong date... Zenith didn't want to admit about the 43M20 due to the lawsuit with RCA, so they just put '61 on the cup to avoid any Mafia-esque trouble from RCA.

That cup shows the Panorama Chromacolor II, and the Erector projection set! I think I need to bid :)

Charles

mr_fixer

09-17-2007 11:58 AM

What Lawsuit? Did Sarnoff beat up on Zenith also? Is that in the AK archives where i can look that up?

Carmine

09-17-2007 06:11 PM

Since I have a few of those sets in my house, I had to bid.

How many of those prototype color sets were built?

43 tubes!!!

David Roper

09-17-2007 06:29 PM

Didn't CBS-Columbia sets have 44 tubes? Westinghouse sets have, coincidentally, the same number of tubes or close to it.

The use of 5U4Gs in these sets instead of selenium is the single biggest factor in inflating the tube count. Even the CT-100 would use 40 tubes if four of them were LV rectifiers!

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