Pair of CT-100's and a pair of Moto 21CT2's for sale

[jeyurkon]

Looking at Phil's photos you can see that they also included the vent holes at the top of the cabinet when they washed it black.

The CT-100 doesn't have the brightest screen in the world. It would likely be watched in a dim room. The metal back has a high optical transparency, better than 50%.

It has a gazillion tubes in it.

I think they painted all these surfaces black to reduce the amount of light that would shine on the wall behind the set from all the tube filaments.

I don't think they would have carefully included the top vent grooves/holes for any other reason.

Painting the interior black would make sense for heat reasons if it were a metal cabinet, but wood is a pretty good insulator. So the heat would have to be reflected out the back, in addition to convection cooling. A low emissivity surface would work just as well as a high one at reflecting the heat out the back so I don't think it was painted black for heat dissipation.

Actually I mean that a low emissivity surface would reflect the heat out and a high emissivity surface would re-emit it out.

John

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Uhh, VERY Stoopit Question: WHY did they "Wash" the inside of the cabinet black ?