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11-10-2006, 10:28 AM
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Italian Predicta?
Anyone know anything about this set?
A fellow with an antiques shop in Italy wrote me wanting to know something about this set. Obviously it's styled after the Predicta (or vice versa?) 
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11-10-2006, 12:26 PM
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I'm not sure but it looks like it may be a modern reproduction...the CRT corners look squarer than the early 1960's ones, plus there are buttons for "video" which likely would not have been on a 60's set.
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11-10-2006, 12:50 PM
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Yeah, wasn't there an outfit 10-15 yrs ago making "repro" Predictas ? Maybe this is one of them...Seems like they were EXTREMELY expensive, a 27" model going for like $2K...
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11-10-2006, 02:36 PM
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I bet Sandy G has guessed correctly
I have not seen much in the world including that so I am guessing for fun and to test myself.
It looks like a color CRT and the control panel had me wondering but I could not see the video button, so, I think it's modern. For my taste it is overkill to the max. I imagine many would love it but I would much rather have that Predicta JPdylon is offering for an amazingly low price.
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11-10-2006, 02:47 PM
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Telstar still has a website up, though it hasn't been updated (what one would call) recently. They're the ones with new color Predictas with contours virtually identical to the original but scaled up: 25" screens on theirs vs. 21" on the original Philcos. The one pictured here is absolutely not a Telstar.
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11-10-2006, 02:58 PM
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Yes, but there was a second source. I think Telstar had the Predicta name, and the other guys had Philco?
 . Anyway, there were some that were really square, a second brand.I've seen them though, and this isn't either kind. John
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11-10-2006, 06:38 PM
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1961 Italian Predicta
A quick search on google, brought up this page. It's from 1961..Wow!
And, it's probably a posterized Color Conversion, already (saves me a lot of work)! Harry http://www.tvhistory.tv/1960-69-ITALIAN.htm
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11-10-2006, 06:54 PM
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So that style was clearly more successful in Europe.
 Teleavia was the proto-Predicta back in 1957 (some sources say '56?) and now we see similar sets were on the market as late as '61.
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11-10-2006, 07:19 PM
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The CRT on the one currently for sale looks the same
as the reference photo with different lighting. I thought that control panel looked genuine old style but the CRT looked very modern to me.
Interesting. I wonder if that Italian collector that ships US sets to Italy has one of those Italian Atlantics?
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11-10-2006, 08:43 PM
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I've seen the Kuba Komet in person. Unless you have about 15' of free wallspace, you ain't a gonna fit one in around anywhere, those things are huge!
My fingers have also personally touched the Lucite 1939 Worlds Fair TRK-12 
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11-10-2006, 11:14 PM
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Ah, but the Lucite cabinet isn't from 1939! A forklift truck took care of the original some years back and a repro was made.
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11-11-2006, 12:02 AM
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Wins the ugly prize... Even more than a Predicta!
Charles
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11-11-2006, 11:43 AM
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That Teleavia looks almost human....like it's looking off camera and saying "What? Are you crazy?"
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11-11-2006, 08:36 PM
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Quote:
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