1956 Motorola Catalog

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Eye-conditioned TV! I love the pic of the guys inside the chassis -- reminds me of the show Land Of The Giants.

Phil Nelson

Amazing how much BS they had to expound to sell TVs by '56...It wasn't quite a "mature" product yet, but it was getting close to it..The only real innovation was color, & they were Mucho Dinero, & there weren't many color programs on at all. B&W sets like these, the only real differences were cosmetic, & screen size choices..

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Amazing how much BS they had to expound to sell TVs by '56

Yeah, like the new Automatic Beam Stablilizer or Improved Miracle Interlace. They come up with some pretty fancy names there, don't they? Funny... I don't recall seeing any "compensator tubes" on the tube diagram of my Motorola sets!

Could you imagine what kind of names they'd have today if they were still trying to BS people?

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by Charlie

Could you imagine what kind of names they'd have today if they were still trying to BS people?

Go look at any "feature" list for Sony TVs of the past 15 years or more and you will see plenty of over-hyped and mis-named junk. "Dynamic" this and that, "Digital Reality Creation" (I'm serious-they really used that term!), "x.v. Color" (another dumb corruption of an industry term for an obscure feature of dubious value), and many more.