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The black set is a 1963 Silvertone roundy (so called because of the shape of the CRT), it has perhaps the best color reproduction of any set I've owned some( of the daytime scenes of Inuyasha do a stunning job of illustrating this). The bottom two, despite being different brands, use the same(albeit slightly modified ) electronics as the Silvertone. This is because of the dozens of American brands of the time only a small fraction designed their own circuits for their color TVs (most brands just bought or licensed their color chassis from RCA). The CTC 16 chassis that these sets use was one of RCA's better designs and was licensed by many companies for many years (I've read that Curtis Mathes made them til some time after 1970). The lower rectangular screen set is my newest CTC 16 clone, it is a 1967 Airline (I really want to get a copy of the series Cyborg 009 to play on this set because it was also made in 1967 and I remember enjoying it the last time they broadcast it, when I was a kid (about 10 years ago)). The lower sets amazingly work pretty well with out any parts replacements and are nearly 100% original!
If you get into collecting Betamax VCRs you will want to watch Cowboy Bebop, in one epesode they are sent a Beta cassette and end up searching a abandoned muesum on a dystopian future earth to try to find a machine to play it on (I just Had copy that epesode on to Betamax as soon as I got a working Beta deck).
Tom C.
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