Newest Delta Gun CRT color TV you've seen-Just curious:-)

[Electrohome]

I'm wondering what's the newst Delta Gun CRT color TV you've ever seen-Just wondering. I picked up a little 5-inch Citizen mini color TV from May of 1985 that's got a Delta Gun CRT just this past spring.
Also curious what's the oldest non-Trinitron Inline color CRT TV you've seen as well. I got a couple of 1975 GE Portacolor TVs with 11-inch inline CRTs, non-black matrix color CRTs as well. My oldest black matrix Inline color CRT color TVs would have to be my 1976 yellow 13-inch Toshiba blackstripe color TVs(2).

[sampson159]

zenith and sylvania made delta gun 23 and 25v crts into 1981.i have a zenith space command set from 1976 with a 25v inline.the picture is amazing on this set.there may have been some box store sets with delta guns into the mid 80s.

[andy]

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[radiotvnut]

RCA, Zenith, and Sylvania made 23" and 25" delta gun CRT TV's until 1980. The 19" and smaller sets started going inline by the mid '70's; but, I have seen a 19" Zenith from '78 and I own a 19" RCA from late '79 and these both have 19" delta gun CRT's. Years ago, I had a 25" Teknika console that was a rebadged Wells-Gardner. I think it was an '81 model and had a delta gun CRT. I don't think you'll find any delta gun CRT sets newer than around '81 because the inline tube had been perfected by that time and the inline tubes didn't require the elaborate convergence circuitry that a delta gun tube requires.

Besides portacolor's and Sony's, the oldest inline CRT that I recall seeing was from around '73. RCA had a 15" portable with an inline CRT and Magnavox had some 17" and 19" sets with bonded yoke inline CRT's from around '74. GE had the oldest 25V inline CRT that I remember seeing and it was used in their "YM" chassis sets that were made during the mid-to-late '70's. This was a large neck tube that had a base that looked like a regular delta gun tube; but, the connections were different for the inline tube. Sylvania also used a large neck inline CRT in their 19" and smaller TV's from the mid '70's.

[kx250rider]

I'd have to go along with the blue-module Sylvania SuperSet II with the 25VDMP22. I think maybe 1984 or so, was the newest one with a delta gun tube. I think they made that set for a retrofit for built-in 1960s 23" color table models, which were then 15+ years old, and thus there was a market for good-fit replacement cheap metal-case table model sets. Also, Magnavox Star System had a delta gun tube until pretty late... At least '81 or so.

Charles

[sampson159]

i remember the e 48 superset II from 1980.sylvanias early inline 25v looked like a delta gun physically.same neck,etc but it was an inline.rca had some early inline portables from 1973 as mentioned before.i do remember a penncrest floor model from 1983 with a delta 25v.i owned this one.wells-gardner set.very good rauland crt.i think 1983 was the last delta gun i can recall.inline were good but i ll take the delta gun sets.

[Jeffhs]

My Zenith Sentry 2 table set from 1995 (the newest CRT TV I still own) has an inline CRT, as does my RCA CTC185 which is four years newer. The two 13" color portables I owned before the Sentry 2 were also made by Zenith, but had delta-gun tubes, as did my 1964 Silvertone roundie. Those early round CRTs must have been heavy as lead since my Silvertone set weighed the proverbial ton, although the TV itself had a metal chassis, a power transformer and was housed in a metal cabinet. I remember moving it to my upstairs bedroom after my dad and I moved to a three-story house in 1972. It took two of my cousins, IIRC, to carry that set up two flights of stairs; the TV must have weighed 50 pounds or more if it weighed an ounce.

[Komet]

I have a 1978 Indesit 26SI with delta gun CRT made by Sylvania, OSD and remote control.

[zenith2134]

Nice. Any '70s TV with on screen display is cool by me !

[colorfixer]

The Panasonic CT-101 has a delta gun CRT, and it was made in the 80's.

[lnx64]

I don't mean to bump an old thread, but this OSD has me curious.

Do you have any pictures of the OSD by any chance?

[Rod Beauvex]

Old thread, but for what it's worth:

Newest delta: 1983 GE.
Oldest Inline: 1977RCA XL100.