Garage Sale Find - RCA CTC-5

[Olorin67]

I think i read somewhere the color circuits in the super series were cost-reduced somehow compared to the more deluxe models. But I suspect most of the later production RCA color set series pprobably used the same system first used on the CTC5 Super series. Once a company figures out most of the customers didnt notice the difference, the bean counters are able to overrule the engineers...
Plus, its not like RCA had a great deal of competition for color sets in the 50s, and the price of color sets was probably a big deterrent to sales, given the limited color programing at the time. So anything to shave a bit off the price was welcome, I think the Super series were the first color sets under $500 if i recall correctly.