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Originally Posted by Whirled One
This living room diorama was part of a set of butter sculptures from the 2009 Iowa State Fair commemerating the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon. The video shown on the "butter TV" is of course footage from the Apollo 11 landing (shown continuously in a loop).
I don't think RCA actually made any TV sets with this, um, cabinet material. What do you think the life expectancy of a CT-100 in a butter cabinet would be before it melted into a puddle?
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Probably not more than a few minutes, if that long. Can you imagine watching the late movie on one of these sets, only to see the chassis slowly sink to the floor of your living room as the butter melted? Not to mention the mess this would leave behind. I can't imagine how the butter TV in the diorama you mention lasted any length of time, if it was showing a continuous video loop. The only thing I can come up with is that the chassis was solid-state; that or else the butter cabinet only held the CRT, with the rest of the set located some distance away. The latter makes sense since the two channel selector "knobs" on the front of the set are, like the rest of the set, made of butter.
BTW, the CRT used in this "butter TV" must have been custom-made if indeed it is a standard color tube, which I doubt. I have never, in over four decades of electronic experimenting, seen a color CRT as small as this one, although nowadays small-screen flat panels are available (witness the 7" Haier digital TVs now available at Best Buy, et al). It could well be that the screen of the butter TV was actually a tiny, custom-made FP.