RCA Dimensia 26" TV help!

[rcaman]

need to know what part you are looking for. i have some rca parts and jeff yes Dimensia did sell very well.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by rcaman

need to know what part you are looking for. i have some rca parts and jeff yes Dimensia did sell very well.

I did not mean to imply RCA Dimensia televisions did not sell well, or were "bad" sets. These were probably very good TVs; in fact, from what you said, they must have sold extremely well despite the name. I am not that familiar with the RCA Dimensia series of televisions, which is why, after I finish this post, I will look up more information on these sets. From what you said, this particular series must have been excellent in its day, maybe one of the best 25" color TVs RCA ever made in the 1980s, before today's HDTV.

As I said earlier, RCA, being a pioneer in electronic television, made very good b&w and, later, NTSC color TVs. My family's first television, in fact, was a 1954 RCA Victor console; it served us well until we replaced it with a Crosley Super V 21" set the following year. We would have kept and used the Crosley set for years afterward (it worked quite well for many years, with its original CRT; the only problem that set had, IIRC, was a vertical-hold potentiometer with a bad spot) were it not for my mother all but insisting on a new, all-channel TV in the mid-'60s, a year or so before she passed away. We replaced the Crosley set with a new Sears Silvertone 17" all-channel portable.

We put the Crosley Super V TV in the basement, along side the RCA 21" set; both TVs remained there until the early 1970s, until my dad married his second wife in 1972 and my grandmother moved into our house (long story and OT).

When my grandmother moved in, all the old junk in the basement, including the 1954 RCA console TV and the blond Crosley 21-inch set, had to go. Just as well, I guess, since the RCA set, while it worked very well from the time it was new, had developed some problems which rendered it unusable by the time we replaced it with the Crosley TV.

[zenith2134]

Having owned a number of RCA Dimensia 25 inchers, I think they were a fine set of their era. That being said, the previous gen with the CTC-121 chassis (Lyceum) had a better pic on it to my eyes. I once read that those used proper I-Q color demod like an early color set would use.

My last remaining 26" RCA is not as sharp as it once was but, in its defense, it was used when I got it and has never had the back off. It's the MTS stereo model with OSD from 1987.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by zenith2134

... That being said, the previous gen with the CTC-121 chassis (Lyceum) had a better pic on it to my eyes. I once read that those used proper I-Q color demod like an early color set would use.

Here's some discussion:
http://www.videokarma.org/archive/in...p/t-35530.html
http://www.videokarma.org/archive/in.../t-247011.html

If I can find the long post of mine about the RCA chassis with an IC I/Q demod and its shortcomings, I'll post a link to that too.