Confirm or deny.

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Thyratron

Early 1970s-early 1980s Zenith sets had probably the best-quality color picture that there ever has been, and likely ever will be. Let me hear your thoughts.

CONFIRMED, but with a caveat: I say the cutoff would be the end of the delta gun tube. So that was about 1978 (switchover from Chromacolor II to System III). I'd say the best, BEST picture was the Zenith 19" set with the 19VDZP22 tube. It ran in the 4-tube hybrid, and also in the 19EC45-ish chassis.

Charles

[Kiwick]

Originally Posted by eberts

This is the year 2008, no CRT's are in production in the USA and most other countries. The Chinese are resourceful at marketing older inventory products. That is why you see Chinese made CRT tube TV's at WalMart. That will end very soon.

Here in Europe we're being flooded with super-junk CRT sets from Turkey and India... from cheap 14 inch portables to large 32 inch flat screen stereo sets... some of them may appear to be nice, stylish sets but the cabinet structure and chassis are PURE JUNK, and, of course, the unreliable flybacks, ICs and transistors in those sets have cryptic codes on them and are absolutely unobtanium

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[Kiwick]

Well, trinitron sets are good as long as they work... but when they fail they are a pain to fix, also, trinitron CRTs tended to be short lived and you can't rejuv them.

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