Red Cased 19" Sylvania Black and White TV

[uxwbill]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Could the set you're looking for possibly be this Panasonic?

It could have been sold under different brands also.

No, I'm sure it's not that set. The set wasn't quite that rounded, had different tuning dials and a speaker grille made up of bars.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by AiboPet

I also think Panasonic and Sylvania when thinking "bright and colorful" cabinet. Do see some real bright weird stuff from Sony, but these were more JDM and MUCH smaller "micro" sets.

Pretty sure I've never seen a TV over 12" though that was a colored cabinet. Were they to appeal to college dorms? or was this just a generally 60's-70's thing. (Do remember I grew up in Hong Kong....so I'm not REALLY all that familiar with 60s-70s here...but from what I saw on....ummmm....TV ).

Red and orange (as well as mixtures of these colors) were very popular colors for TV cabinets and other things in the 1960s and '70s. I grew up in that time frame and saw many such colored cabinets, etc. Also popular during that era was a color scheme called "tie-dye", which was a combination of red, yellow and at least one other color that escapes me at the moment. Tie-dyed shirts in particular were extremely popular in the late 1960s and '70s as well.

[AiboPet]

Tie-die TV set would have likely been VERY annoying, but certainly collectable :-P

I do see orange and red sets come up on ebay pretty often. ALL from mostly the 70's, but DAMN!! Those things start to command some REAL high prices. They tend to rally RIGHT at the end of an auction......or they ALREADY have a high "buy it now" because it's being sold at a premium, intended as a movie prop.

For the most part, I would like SEEING them, but space really prevents me from collecting 9" sets. I do have the one Quasar "hard luck" set I rescued...and LOVE the homely little thing, but I can't have like ten of these around. I'm already closing in on the big fifty as far as sets sitting around between the front room and the bedroom where the "collection" part is. Almost ALL "micros" of course except for a couple briefcases.

I do want ONE small tube set though...sort of a "masterpiece" for the front room. Sometimes I imagine having the room for a Predicta (the smaller one)...or maybe the "pedestal" Predicta. I have only seen ONE before, and it was a dead one in a barber shop (and it's GONE now...sad). I could have sworn I saw a RED predicta on ebay even!

[bgadow]

Keep refreshing this thread from time to time, eventually one will turn up. I do believe you, that the set was orange and a Sylvania. I do have a 19" Magnavox which is white, if I remember right. (been in storage, just wait, I'll look at it next time and it will be some other color!) One way to narrow it down would be to leaf through Sams Photofacts from that era; another would be factory sales/service literature. I don't recall having much of the latter for 70s Sylvania stuff. Hmmm...I do have some Philco books from when they were part of GTE, and those would have been pretty much identical, probably the same cabinets? Have to take a look.