1964 Zenith 5111 comes to life!

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Originally Posted by Tubejunke

Thanks! The first thing that I noticed is that the color seems really (looking for the right words) alive(?)! To me the Zenith's color seems as good or better than way more modern standard definition crt sets! We TV people must be as weird as people seem to think that the hobby is! I would just as soon look at this set as some plastic HD flat screen! Certainly I can see that HD is far more, well, defined! LOL! To me the HD picture almost looks unreal where the good tube (crt) sets produced more lifelike images.

I have a 1965 Zenith roundie and I agree that the color is very vibrant. Reds in particular are deep and rich. The flesh tones are warmer than on many modern sets. Although everyone thnks I am weird for this but I actually prefer the round screen shape. I don't really like the 90 degree angles and hard edges of today's rectangular screens. Widescreen is great for movies and computers but I like my TV to be circular or very heavily curved like the 1950s sets.