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Here's a picture of another type of fake Predicta that I saw at Elgin this year. [Well, the Radiofest is not actually in Elgin anymore, but I figure this way more people know the event to which I'm referring...]
Basically it's a 13" color TV / DVD combo unit in a super-fake-fifities-style plastic cabinet. I dunno who actually made this thing; the brand name on it is "RetroVision". The seller had the original box with it; wish I had thought to take a picture of the box, because it was actually more "goofy" than the unit itself. Has anyone here ever seen one of these in stores? Sounds like the sort of thing that would find its way among the fake-old-radios-with-CD-players and other such retrophony, but I've never seen one of these fake sorta-kinda-Predicta-inspired things anywhere else.
On a related note, anyone else remember the RCA UVU from around 1992..? It was a 25" table-model color TV in a black plastic cabinet, but the design was a bit different from the usual run-of-the-mill modern square box TV. The cabinet was more rounded in shape, and the speakers were mounted in these rounded bulges on either side of the picture tube, sort of reminicent of the way the arms mount on the sides of a Predicta's picture tube housing. Sort of made me think of what a Predicta-shaped TV might look like if it was conceptualized today instead of the late 1950's. Also, the UVU had the old round ("meatball") RCA logo prominently printed on its front rather than the modern RCA logo. Really distinctive. I gather it didn't sell very well, though; I think it was intended as a sort of "special edition" model and was priced higher than RCA's other 25" table sets. The funny thing was that I *almost* actually bought one of these; it was fall of 1993, and I was looking for a new TV, and noticed one of these weird RCA's with a "clearance" tag on it at the local Montgomery Wards store. I ended up getting a Zenith instead (I really wanted to get a Zenith at the time...), but sometimes I wonder if I shoulda taken another look at that RCA UVU-- I've never seen another one since then!
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