Japanese Color TV set without a tricolor tube

[Pete Deksnis]

Eyeball Observations:


The line cord and its plug (foreign-style to us on this side of the pond) provide a sense of overall size.

Three CRT’s, their magnetics, and the optics occupy three-quarters of the internal volume of the case.


Fact:

Even a ‘reduced tube’ CTC4 of 1955 had two dozen tubes.


Question:

Is this little guy also transistorized? four years before the Safari?

Was there a second electronics package that held the tube circuits?


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