Re: Largest CRT TV ever made?

On Sep 5, 9:17?pm, 80's GUY! <bmal...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 4, 10:14 pm, barry c <v...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 4, 9:16 pm, "Steve" <za...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There was a Dumont set that had a 48 or 50" round CRT.
This was in the mid to early 1950's, and yes, it was
B&W.

Steve

Al, I remember my dad and I watching Ernie Kovacs together and we
really went crazy watching the "Nairobi Trio". Too bad Ernie never
got much credit for being the first to try bits that other people
later got famous for. Thanks for bring back that memory. Barry

A litte off topic here, but how many folks remember the Zenith TV
guys, who came around to fix the TV set with the huge set of parts to
your house?!? Sad to see that Znith was the lastof the great US
Builders of sets to go overseas towards the end. I still remember
watching HR Puff-In-Stuff, I dream of Genie, Mr. Ed and more on my
Grandfather set. Cartoons were an after school thing: ya' got 2
hoursof the Jetsons, Sesamie Street or the Flintstones, and that was
it sans the Saturday lineups on the 3 major networks. Man today, with
Directv........... my kids have zero Idea of how they are lucky!
Disney was Sunday Night, and if you were lucky, they had a few
cartoons as well! Greeat post, Thanks to all for sharing!~Bret (Off to
watch 400 channels of nothing as good as back in the day!)
Yea I was a Zenith dealer and we sold new Zeniths from 1982 up till
about 1994. Zenith was a great set all the way from the mid 60s up
until the probably best CRT sets ever made by Zenith that came about
1989. You know how great it is to actually sell a product you can say
without exageration or lies how great it is? That's how we were with
the Zeniths, but Zenith sold out like all the other manufacturers,
they would sell special made cheaper line models to the big chain
stores we could not buy, kind of like John Deere is doing in the
riding lawn mower stuff now at Home Depot ect. Cheaper quality sets at
a cheaper price and in the American way, everyone goes cheap, so no
more independent shops selling Zenith or any other brand for that
matter. After that all went downhill for Zenith as all their CRTs were
bad out of the box or whithin 2-3 years on smaller sets, larger made
my Mitsubishi CRTs were still good, but in the American way of always
buying something for nothing, few opted for the more expensive 32-35"
CRT TVs. Zeniths name went down in the trash trying to sell cheaper
products at a cheaper price, but cheaper was not quality, not even
close. Now the new HDTV stuff, I would not sell ever as my conscience
and morals will not allow it. No used or new HDTVs will ever pass my
doors to a new owner. If someone buys one, they can use it like a pair
of shoes and throw it away after that.


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