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mercury6768

07-13-2012 04:32 PM

1966 Zenith Pay TV Box -- Phonevision

Another TV ancillary I've never seen or heard of, on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-1966-Ze...item53edd04b54

It seems like a rather complicated way to get your pay TV, but obviously precedes HBO by a decade or so. Cool little item.

consoleguy67

07-13-2012 04:37 PM

There had been another one on E-Bay that was more complete.

OvenMaster

07-13-2012 09:07 PM

One of the three stations in the U.S. that used Phonevision was WHCT in Hartford. I remember seeing the scrambled OTA signals when I was small, and hearing the garbled sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonevision

W3XWT

07-14-2012 06:23 PM

Zenith... Where Z-TAC lives forever!

old_tv_nut

07-14-2012 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mercury6768 (Post 3041905)

Zenith was the greatest early advocate of pay TV. The idea was anathema to many, and Zenith had great trouble getting pay broadcasts authorized. Today, of course, pay TV is the norm, with many people not even aware you can get free TV over the air any more.

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