So, what did Zenith do to make their CRT's fail quicker?

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Trance88

When I was in 9th grade back in '03-'04, my high school consists of a separate freshman campus building from the main high school building for 10-12 graders. The freshman campus building used primarily Zenith sets in all the classrooms which were from around 1994. These sets were still going very strong back in 2006, which was the last time I ever went to the freshman campus. Many of them are constantly used on a daily basis to display daily announcements and stuff like that.

I was very impressed with the picture and sound quality of these sets too.

when I was in grade school from 1973 - 1979, we had these old Setchell/Carlson B&W TV's:



I remember they had a "standby" position as well just to keep the tube filaments warm.