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Facinating stuff!
Thanks for posting this. I am new to the forum and was just reading through the Spring 1974 service report and there is a detailed discussion with Robert Adler the Vice presedent of research at Zenith about the demise of TV service repair at that time, and he was quite accurate in seeing the end of it, However for the wrong reasons. He thought it would because of dependabilty! Maybe that would have been true if Zenith kept making the sets!
He did correctly predicted the use of the flat screen TV's and need for new broadcast facilties, but missed it when he predicted the flat screen TV's would still need some service.
While that would have been true had they continued to be made in the U.S., what he did not anticipate was the cheap manufacturing of electronics in China that made it more economical to just throw them out instead of having them fixed!
If he has passsed on he is rolling over in his grave.
And so, sadly unbeknownst to him at the time he predicted the end Zenith itself. If only he had known.
I was surpirized at how accurate he was in seeing the future. Must be why he had that position at Zenith.
Great reading.

Tom B.