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Old 06-11-2008, 12:05 PM
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I know that Magnavox had a color indicator lamp on their color sets until at least '66 or so... And I think Motorola did too, but it may have been a tuning indicator; I'm not sure.

All the color sets had a badge of some sort, with RCA using a rainbow prismic rectangular thing during the 60s that said New Vista Color. I think the only RCA color sets not displaying some kind of color badge were the CT-100 through CTC-4.

None of the RCAs lit up. However, all TVs with doors had a jewel lamp somewhere outside the doors to show if the TV was on by law.

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