Picked up an RCA CTC97

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Found an ultra-clean ctc-97 set from April, 1980 in a thrift shop today. Its an XL-100. Has the ChanneLock Remote with 4-buttons, Volume up/down and channel up/down. Interestingly, Volume down turns power off on both the set and the remote. Seems like a cost-cutting move, no? Inside though, the set is solid as a rock: Metal chassis and plenty of heatsinking.

This model has an LED readout, so no OSD for the channel, but it doesn't matter for me since I have it on channel 3 permanently and use my DTV box channels.

Let me tell you, I am very happy my wega went this week, because this RCA has a great picture! Paid em 10 bux for it, because he was very proud that it was built in Indiana and I was impressed by that. Just wanted to share.

In these pictures, notice how the RCA logo with the Nipper dog is still used... seems strange because every other rca I had from the later 70s/early 80s never had this. Excuse the bad camera quality, the raster is a hell of a lot better than that, perfect focus.