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Originally Posted by egrand
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Motorola made some later 23EGP22's themselves after the bad experience with NVC, and that they were much more reliable.
NVC did go bankrupt and out of business in I think 1969. I believe the 23EG was the only color tube they made. Supposedly their B&W's were still ok, but by the late 60's most OEM's had gone overseas for B&W and nobody wanted them to make color ones.
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NVC made a 23V type CRT in the later 60's. I scrapped a Late 60's Magnavox color set, that was fire damaged and only two years old. The CRT, tested perfect and was NVC sourced. I installed it in an Admiral set.
When Motorola started selling 23V sets, they were buying CRT's from Admiral and Westinghouse. They were using them in the lower-end models. The higher-end models, with the Drexel cabinets, usually used Sylvania CRT's.