Do "roundie" color sets make a better picture than later sets?

[DaveWM]

1st time I recall seeing a color tv, think it was a roundie, saw a BW show (typical of the time, not a lot of color programming).

it was so badly converged I could see the color fringing all over the place on a BW image, I was just a kid, and thought so this is color tv? was not impressed.

[JB5pro]

I like the rectangularies too for certain programs but i love the roundies especially when watching period correct shows like all the early color broadcasts.
i lost my '64 rca home entertainment center , the antionette with remote control and no uhf. Ctc15 low hours, It was awesome with a new crt from hawkeye i spent like 700 on that crt. The knife is still slowly twisting in my mind's gut over that loss. it'll likely drive me to

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by DaveWM

1st time I recall seeing a color tv, think it was a roundie, saw a BW show (typical of the time, not a lot of color programming).

it was so badly converged I could see the color fringing all over the place on a BW image, I was just a kid, and thought so this is color tv? was not impressed.

It was in early 1955, my brother and I went to the downtown Milwaukee Boston Store to see color TV. It was Saturday morning and there was nothing on in color at the time. The set was a 19" Motorola, where the B/W picture was rather green and the purity wasn't that great. All the B/W sets, that were on at the time, the picture was so much better.

[etype2]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

It was in early 1955, my brother and I went to the downtown Milwaukee Boston Store to see color TV. It was Saturday morning and there was nothing on in color at the time. The set was a 19" Motorola, where the B/W picture was rather green and the purity wasn't that great. All the B/W sets, that were on at the time, the picture was so much better.

It's ironic you say that. I bought my first color set in 1966 at that very same Boston store. I worked across the street on 4th and Wisconsin Ave. On my lunch hours, would go to the 6th floor of Boston store and look at all the color sets.

In the 50's, saw early color TV.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by etype2

It's ironic you say that. I bought my first color set in 1966 at that very same Boston store. I worked across the street on 4th and Wisconsin Ave. On my lunch hours, would go to the 6th floor of Boston store and look at all the color sets.

In the 50's, saw early color TV.

Was that the time when Boston Store sold just Magnavox, or before?
They became a "Magnavox Salon" sometime in the early-to-mid 60's.

[etype2]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Was that the time when Boston Store sold just Magnavox, or before?
They became a "Magnavox Salon" sometime in the early-to-mid 60's.

IIRC, the downtown Boston store in 1965 and 1966 sold various brands of color TV. Why?, I started work fresh out of high school in Jan. 1965. I worked across the street from Boston store. Was at that location until 1972. I was on the hunt for a color set. I'd grab a quick sandwich and drink, then walk across the street and look at the different color sets on my lunch hour at Boston store.

I also spent a lot of time at Gimbels at Southgate shopping center looking at various color sets. I remember the Maggie's there and quite a few brands of color sets. I think Schuster's had a good display of color sets also.

PS. I have a Boston store advertisement from the Milwaukee Journal dated May, 1967 advertising the RCA color sets. It's on my website.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by etype2

IIRC, the downtown Boston store in 1965 and 1966 sold various brands of color TV. Why?, I started work fresh out of high school in Jan. 1965. I worked across the street from Boston store. Was at that location until 1972. I was on the hunt for a color set. I'd grab a quick sandwich and drink, then walk across the street and look at the different color sets on my lunch hour at Boston store.

I also spent a lot of time at Gimbels at Southgate shopping center looking at various color sets. I remember the Maggie's there and quite a few brands of color sets. I think Schuster's had a good display of color sets also.

PS. I have a Boston store advertisement from the Milwaukee Journal dated May, 1967 advertising the RCA color sets. It's on my website.

I didn't know the time line when Boston Store became just a Magnavox dealer.
BTW, what make set, did you buy there?

[etype2]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I didn't know the time line when Boston Store became just a Magnavox dealer.
BTW, what make set, did you buy there?

This one.

http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-c...ds/image57.jpg


A 1966 RCA Bremanger 19 inch CTC-19. Was one of the first rectangular sets. Got rid of it decades ago. Two years ago, found the exact same set on EBay. It needs me to install the replacement CRT I got from ETF.