What's the most reliable TV ever made in history? - Videokarma.org TV - Video

waltchan · #1 10-02-2006, 07:58 PM

Just curious, what's the most reliable TV ever made in history? Name a brand, model, and year.

jpdylon · #2 10-02-2006, 08:08 PM

A pre-75 Zenith chromacolor II is by far the best looking and most reliable set IMHO.

3Guncolor · #3 10-02-2006, 10:19 PM

Any 74' 25" Zenith set with 25EC58 chassis.

Carmine · #4 10-02-2006, 10:57 PM

Here's 1000 words for ya...

Bigerik · #5 10-02-2006, 11:12 PM

Ok, I am curious now. What makes those Zeniths so good? Was it reliability only, or was the picture that good too?

jpdylon · #6 10-02-2006, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigerik

Ok, I am curious now. What makes those Zeniths so good? Was it reliability only, or was the picture that good too?

yes.

waltchan · #7 10-03-2006, 01:29 AM

What about RCA, or was Zenith the best at that time?

kx250rider · #8 10-03-2006, 01:51 AM

ABSOLUTELY a Zenith. Mine is a '72 with a 25DC56 chassis. Been through a house fire, 2 severe earthquakes, been dropped, and it still is used every day, 7 days a week.

Chassis is bronze-plated steel, and the cabinet is also steel. Even the back is steel! And the parts inside as much as the people who assembled the set in Chicago are all USA-made.

Charles

Carmine · #9 10-03-2006, 08:57 AM

Charles,

After all that we've heard about this set, nice to see a picture!

Sandy G · #10 10-03-2006, 10:12 AM

...An' what a GREAT picture it is, too ! <grin>

waltchan · #11 10-03-2006, 10:24 AM

Spoke with a TV repairman, and he thinks Sony Trinitrons from the 80s were the most reliable TVs ever made in history. Who second that? He said Zenith Chromocolors from the 70s were okay, but not great.

rcaman · #12 10-03-2006, 10:37 AM

no nope you all are wrong . the most reliable sets ever made are the ones.

that were hardley ever used . sorry i couldnt help this one

Carmine · #13 10-03-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by waltchan

Spoke with a TV repairman, and he thinks Sony Trinitrons from the 80s were the most reliable TVs ever made in history. Who second that? He said Zenith Chromocolors from the 70s were okay, but not great.

I hate to be the guy who craps on the birthday cake, but after looking at your post history, it seems like they're all related to "who did x best", which tends to be flame bait... That; and it would seem you have unreal knowledge of Orion sets!?! You've also said:

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...although I don't go to this forum too often.

By your history, this is the ONLY forum you've ever posted in.

Is there a point behind this question, or did you just wait for a few replies to disagree?

Nakdoc · #14 10-03-2006, 04:28 PM

Pioneer SDP5053 projection 1991
if it wasn't for C177 leaking, these sets would never need repairs.

Whirled One · #15 10-03-2006, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by waltchan

Just curious, what's the most reliable TV ever made in history? Name a brand, model, and year.

I know everyone jumped on the "Zenith Chromacolor!!!" bandwagon, but frankly, there's no possible one answer to this question, or even a manufacturer name. I tend to agree with Carmine that this type of question tends to lead to "religious wars," though I really don't think that was the original poster's intent.

As for a semi-serious answer to the question, it'd probably be any number of mass-produced 12" B&W solid-state portables from the 1970's and 80's. I mean, have you ever encountered a *non-working* 12" solid-state B&W set? (aside from physical damage, of course) Those things were so "commoditized" and such a mature technology by the late-1970's that it was getting pretty hard for an established manufacturer to screw up one of those, and the designs were so conservative that they couldn't help but be reasonably reliable. [One exception I can think of though were those wacky high-end Zenith B&W portables from the 80's that had pushbutton digital tuning; seems like a good percentage of the ones I've seen appeared to have some sort of tuner problem.]

Then again, by the 1980's, 12" B&W sets were quickly becoming "disposable" TVs, so if one had developed any kind of serious defect it'd probably have been tossed in the trash, thus removing it from the "available pool" of TV sets today.