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The slowest set I know of is an early 70s series string color set (can't recall the chassis right now) I really need to time it next time I switch it on. These days if someone found one and tried it they would give up on it as junk, not knowing about tube warm up times and all. Perhaps its why I only had to pay $5? UPDATE: I turned it on last night, its a CTC-53A. Audio came up at 12 seconds, video came up at a smokin'-wait for it (literally!) 42 seconds!
I bought a bunch of stuff from a semi-retired Admiral dealer once; he tried to talk me into buying this Zenith he had but he wanted like $75 for it. I thought at the time it was solid state but looking back it was probably a tube or hybrid Chromacolor. Beautiful cabinet, great picture. Anyhow, he told me that he had installed instant-on himself on this set, and that he did the conversion quite often. Its been some years since I've had an instant-on set but I recall they were faster than anything else I've seen.
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Bryan
Last edited by bgadow; 02-23-2005 at 09:58 AM.
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