Silvertone? Airline? 19" color console

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by nasadowsk

Wow, the Japanese sold tube TVs in the US? I know I've heard of a few tiny Panasonic instant on ones, but never a large console, though I seem to recall an ACIENT Panasonic console a friend's grandfather had. Was like a 21" though color, though. But it looked acient, even in the 80's. *shrug*

It could be a production run that was meant for their domestic market as well as export. Japan uses NTSC, and the only differences are the carriers on their TV channels (use a different tuner) and their powerline is a bit lower (100V) than ours (use a different power transformer, or one with taps at 100V and 120V).

Also the labels on the user controls would be different, but that's no big deal.