1960's Westinghouse color TV sets.

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I've been curious about them for years, and have never stumbled upon one in person. I know that at least one VK'er has/had one. Things I know: in the later 60s, when everyone was coming out with tuning gimmicks (GE used meters, Philco had eye tubes, etc) Westinghouse had an on-screen indicator. I've only seen it in a magazine ad, but apparently a vertical band would appear on the screen and you would tune the station until that band was the optimum width. (I can't recall if it was supposed to be wider or narrower) The other thing, and nobody ever has any information on this: I have a reliable chassis-i.d. guide put out by Sams or maybe one of the electronics magazines, showing what all the color chassis looked like for that year. (probably 67 or 68) The Westinghouse is very clearly identical to the Magnavox. It appears that the same basic chassis may have been used for a short while by Curtis Mathes. So, who designed that chassis, and who really built it?

Westinghouse did build its own color crts and continued to manufacture them long after it got out of the consumer electronics business. I have seen their EIA code on picture tubes in Motorola and Magnavox color sets from about '74-75.