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Old 03-28-2012, 10:44 AM
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REAL TVs have TUBES!
 
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut View Post
The tuner on the Sylvania looks like an early varactor tuner. I also wonder if it was originally a tube set. I don't think there were too many tube sets with varactor tuners.

I think the Zenith is from the mid '80's.
I know that chassis.. It's all-transistor, big non-modular chassis, and it was a good design. VERY RARE though... Only ever seen 2 or 3 at most, as compared to the RCA CTC-40 and Zenith 25DC56, etc. They were very costly, as you'd expect with that nice cabinet. All 3 I saw, were in that same cabinet, so might be that it was a one-model chassis.

Charles
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