I am 65 yrs old now, back in my twenties I worked for a local TV shop here in MD, and it was well established that Zenith products were the top of the line. They were more expensive than RCA. Motorola, and the others, but we had very few service calls for Zenith TV sets, and from a service standpoint, we found they were built like tanks and were true workhorses.
Agree with @jimmy, my dad _always_ bought Zenith; both our stereo and our television. "The Quality Goes In, Before the Names Goes On," as they said. So said this company (like Sears) has gone completely away.
My great uncle bought a Zenith radio, phonograph console new in 1954. I always loved it. When he passed at 100!, I asked for the old radio and was given it, that was 1994. 26 years later, its still working great. Never been rebuilt, only 1 tube inside is not Zenith. Record player, COBRA MATIC, still works fine also. At 66 years old, it sometimes runs all day, not a hitch. Its true, THE QUALITY GOES IN, BEFORE THE NAME GOES ON.
That's the REALLY good era. By 63 or so, the sound quality went way down. BTW, the Cobra tone-arm was used in the finest juke boxes, that had to be near bulletproof. Enjoyed your story!
Color sets were such a huge investment back then, extremely expensive! We had a 19” Motorola portable black and white set all through the 60’s and the first half of the 70’s lol! Dad didn’t believe in throwing money away on a color set, he just didn’t think it was that important. It was quite surprising to see all those shows from the 60’s that were in color for the first time.
Sad indeed. Zenith, Polaroid, Ampex, Singer, Remington-Rand, multi-lifetime Schwinn bicycles & even GM, just to name a few. Lets not forget Good-Humor, Breyer's, Ebinger's and Dugan's desert products, that were to die for. What a great country we had. Brings tears to my eyes. Younger generations that weren't there, could never understand. Finally, at least from personal experience, living in Brooklyn, no one cared about race or color. Most all would routinely joke about their own breed. Politicians & the media changed all that.
My parents got our first color TV a Zenith, no less, in 1971. It was incredibly heavy with a handle on the top. They had the audacity to refer to it as “portable” 😂
I wish I could afford a old zenith set from the period. A 20 inch roundie. The old phosphorus coatings have such a nice vibe. The quality goes in before the name goes on.
What a great film promotion for Zenith. That was a great company. Too bad they are gone . We don't have many great firms like that here anymore, that produced a great line of products that supported the USA. Sad, we have to rely on other countries for stuff today.
"We surround each dot with a jet-black matrix." I believe it was Zenith that gave us the black matrix picture tubes with improved contrast- the "Chromacolor" picture tubes.
The black shadow mask was Chroma Color and they had Chroma Color 2 as well I think. It made the picture brighter and possibly 2 was the higher brightness rare earth phosphors the newer tubes had like the ad is saying. My first color TV was a used 69 Zenith 23" tube set I paid 115 bucks for in 73. Saved my berry picking money all summer to buy it.
You had to have Money to get Color TV then, We didn't get one till 75. We had a Big B&W TV that was made about 1957.. FM Radio was expensive too! Our first Color TV was Zenith, the old one was a Magnavox.
Amusing to see a company touting point-to-point hand wiring over printed circuits. It makes sense for tubes, but once transistors became standard, point-to-point was basically ancient history, and an absolute rat's-nest nightmare to troubleshoot.
I am a fan of, and provider of, a "wheel alignment for your TV" of sorts: Calibration. Using industry-reference standardized patterns, I can set the Contrast, Brightness, Color, etc. to where they belong, for transparent display of the original signal or content. Unfortunately, today's flat screen HD panels are factory configured with the equivalent of having all the controls on these old Zeniths turned up to the max! And that is influencing the set buying public's concept of what is a 'good' picture. My goal is to undo such falsehoods, and help people achieve the most accurate image they can from their TVs. Plus, extend the life of the TVs
See the kid on the floor? That was me growing up. I was the “automatic” channel changer. Are you here to rob me? Yes, hand over those gold-plated tuners!
this reminds me of an old zenith tv company joke about a person asking for a raise. as we all know there slogan is - the quality goes in b 4 the name goes on... A person asked for a promotion and a new name plate on her door and she seemed to not be getting it so it seemed to them to her. When asking why to her male boss he said the quality goes in b 4 the name goes on.
Stan Fiedler had at least one of these sets in his Arcade(Janesville, Wisconsin). I have one of them. It's not being used, but last time I plugged it in, it looked like it would work. I wonder how many "Vizeo" sets will still be working after 50/plus years?
Today that little girl is a woman telling her therapist of the day her father finally took her to the ball park, only to begin talking to nonexistent people in front of the crowd. She hasn’t gotten over the stigma yet! 🙄
I doubt anyone remembers what it was like when an actual TV repairman came to your house and replaced a tube or replacing one yourself, taking the used tube to the store and plugging it in to a tester on a display to see if the tube was really bad then picking a new tube from the many types available. It wasn’t very long from 1960 that the Japanese revolutionized TV manufacture and the modern electronic components changed the way TV’s were manufactured in a mere 20 years American made TV’s vanished overnight and the last American made TV was Curtis Mathis, very good brand it was gone by 1982, however the company still exists as it diversified into other things.
i remember being with dad doing that stuff. Peeps did not like paying 5 bucks for an expensive one so you hoped those were ok. Peeps used to check all of them while at itm if anything was wrong rather than pay a repairman... remember western auto and
@@scootin123 Not the picture tube, that was usually checked in set by the service tech. The other tubes were easily removed and some recommended that you pull every (other) tube and take them in to test every few months to find them as they were going bad. I don't think HV rectifier tubes were commonly pulled (DIY TV repair articles of the 60s kept you out of the HV cage if I recall correctly). Here's the strange thing, just because a tube tests bad, doesn't mean it is bad, if it tests good, it could be bad. The best tester is the device itself. In big cities, it was possible that you could have really bad tubes in the IF section, but since the signals were so strong the weak tubes didn't show up unless tested. Tubes were sometimes bad out of the box (I know a former TV tech that told me a story about how he and another tech ended up sending a set to Zenith depot repair for a bad tube). Vacuum tubes are still used in a lot of applications. TV transmitters for example are still sometimes using tubes. Your microwave oven has at least one. Anything with a Vacuum Fluorescent Display has that tube in it. CRTs of course are vacuum tubes as well.
After I have watched baseball on tv, it was a letdown when I actually went to a live game. The ballpark was much smaller than I visualized from tv or radio.
Zenith really used to push their stereo gear back in the day. It was advertized constantly... radio, TV, magazines. In the early 70s I remember my parents fell for all the ads and finally bought a Zenith "Allegro" stereo system and I was so excited. But I ended up so disappointed... it sounded like cheap low end garbage... especially compared to my friend's Marantz Advent system.
By the time the Allegro stuff was introduced, most American products were "compromised". The Marantz / "Original-Advent" system is still highly revered in 2022. STILL sounds more enjoyable than contemporary "high-end" systems, costing more than a Lexus (or even a good home, in some cases). BTW, Zenith made really good console audio, up until they introduced the solid-state stuff. They even had sealed speaker enclosures. Once they began advertising "high-power" 240-watt (EIA peak) amp sections, they weren't the same quality.
Interessante io sono in Italia mi ricordo quando fabbricavano qui i tvc Grundig / Minerva a catodo duravano una vita si parlò di 45/55 anni fa' ero un bambino ora i tvc led o OLED chinesi /o sud corani o giapponesi durano 3 anni una volta la tecnologia durava ora obsolescenza programmata
Zenith was instrumental in developing the current HDTV standard, and video streaming. But they didn't have enough funds to keep developing their own technology. The company was sold to LG of Korea in the mid 90s. 😢
Gold never wears out?, it's a very soft metal so most certainly does wear and that is partially why it is used as due to the fact that it does wear it's self-cleaning.
While gold is soft, they mentioned the tuners were 16k gold, which is relatively hard. And gold isn't "self-cleaning" because it wears. Gold reacts with very few things, so there's nothing to "clean". That inertness is why when people find gold, it's almost always quite pure.
Unfortunately today, we have let substandard become the norm, buying low quality televisions from a discount retailer such as Walmart. When I was young, the mentality was different, you didn't buy a television for your family room from a discount retailer, you would be ashamed to have people over if you did. You worked hard for your money, so you bought a good television from a reputable quality retailer. I remember the only cheap television that my father ever bought was a 13" Sanyo from Zody's because my mother wanted a small TV in the dining room, and cheap it was, didn't last more than a few years. Our good television was a Zenith sold under the Montgomery Ward house brand name and lasted for more than 30 years.
I wonder where the public would have seen this film. Was it still common at the time of this film for large corporations (like General Motors) to provide 16 mm promotional films to churches and other social organizations? I know that many films were not quite 100% product promotion from start to finish like this one.
@@docgonzo1973 GE was the worst offender, but pretty much all the early sets did so. The cure was to use leaded glass for the CRT and high voltage tube envelopes, and eventually eliminate the high voltage rectifier and regulator tubes altogether.
8:30 I don't know why none of the manufacturers (to my knowledge) used the fiberglass PC boards that were, even then, common in computer and military applications. Sure, they would have cost more than phenolic, but they were nearly indestructible and would have cost less than a point-to-point-wired chassis.
Agreed, except my industry observation when it comes to somewhat newer tube gear. I'm a fan of Audio-Research gear, from 1980 through the mid 90's or so. Though the glass P-C boards never give out, they are too rigid to move with tubes heating and giant high voltage storage capacitor "buzz". Every failure (other than tubes of course) resulted from solder-joint to PC failure. There's no "give" that hand wiring allows. Seen this dozens of times. I heavily solder these joints, and it seems to alleviate the issue. At least I think so. There's no doubt in my mind, that hand wiring has its advantage. Many high-end audiophile (tube) brands still "hand wire".
In the 60s, other American manufacturers were starting to get worried about Asian manufacturers like Sony and Goldstar. Zenith executives said that Asian companies would never be worthy competitors, since they "made only junk". Boy, were they wrong.
Visited a friend who had the first remote control in our neighborhood. If you hit your hand on the floor it changed the channel. (I want quality color, and lung cancer!)
Zenith made a point at the time. PC boards (favored by RCA and others) did not hold up well with the heat tubes generated. On the other hand, the "hand crafted chassis" were/was (probably) more expensive to build. Zenith DID begin to use PC boards on TV sets as they became solid-state. Zenith made a lot of "hybrid" models that took the tube count down to four (3 in horizontal, 1 in vertical) before they went 100% solid-state in the 1970's.
Notice how almost everything the father said started with 'My'. "My color TV, my sound, my quality, my my my my my" !!! Why were all American men in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and on and on, always declaring everything as 'My' ? His poor wife was just sitting there obediently as he droned on and on about everything being his. I'll tell you something, I'm in The UK, and if I ever did that my wife would dump the bloody TV on me!
7:58 No printed circuits. I am a bit surprised that would be an advertising point. I don't really know how those loose wires and semi exposed individual components are better than PCBs. Maybe PCBs made in 1960s are in far worse quality compared to today ?
They were a lot easier to work on than printed circuit boards. It takes a lot more skill and soldering equipment to remove components from a pcb. The pcb is easier to manufacture and harder to work on. There are advantages to each system though. Tv companies did start making tv's with removable pcb's so when the tv repairman made a house call, he could swap out a bad board instead of taking the tv back to the shop. The tv shop then sent the bad boards back to the factory to be refurbished.
PCBs and vacuum tubes were a bad combination for reliability. The heat from the tubes would slowly char and warp the cheap paper based phenolic boards used at the time. PCBs didn't really become reliable until transistors took over, reducing the heat load, and glass/epoxy boards became more common, improving mechanical strength.
Смотрел и чуть не расплакался. Почему раньше техника была произведением искусства, а сейчас такое одноразовое говно? Раньше телевизор могли купить один и на всю жизнь.
Golden Dreams unfortunately no Zenith went out of business in the 1980’s. Curtis Mathis was the last American made TV and it went out in the 80’s as well. You may see names from time to time but none are the real companies that used to exist just maybe a licensed name to whom may own it.
My family had an Admiral 27 inch console from the late 70`s that was given to us. The picture tube only produced green so that had to be replaced. It was around $400.00 in 1984 money to get it done.
When Zenith got bought out by Goldstar in the 90s the quality went straight to the crapper. I remember I was an audio technician and having mandatory overtime on an Saturday replacing picture tubes on Zenith only tvs that were under warranty. They were complete JUNK!
I am 65 yrs old now, back in my twenties I worked for a local TV shop here in MD, and it was well established that Zenith products were the top of the line. They were more expensive than RCA. Motorola, and the others, but we had very few service calls for Zenith TV sets, and from a service standpoint, we found they were built like tanks and were true workhorses.
Zenith and Sony were the state of the art in TV technology back then.
Agree with @jimmy, my dad _always_ bought Zenith; both our stereo and our television. "The Quality Goes In, Before the Names Goes On," as they said.
So said this company (like Sears) has gone completely away.
To see color TV on the old Zenith for the first time was a remarkable experience.
💯
My great uncle bought a Zenith radio, phonograph console new in 1954. I always loved it. When he passed at 100!, I asked for the old radio and was given it, that was 1994. 26 years later, its still working great. Never been rebuilt, only 1 tube inside is not Zenith. Record player, COBRA MATIC, still works fine also. At 66 years old, it sometimes runs all day, not a hitch. Its true, THE QUALITY GOES IN, BEFORE THE NAME GOES ON.
That's the REALLY good era. By 63 or so, the sound quality went way down. BTW, the Cobra tone-arm was used in the finest juke boxes, that had to be near bulletproof. Enjoyed your story!
OMG, I'd completely forgotten the term "Cobra Matic" !! Thanks for reminding me.
I always enjoy watching old promotional films such as this. Thank you for posting.
Color sets were such a huge investment back then, extremely expensive! We had a 19” Motorola portable black and white set all through the 60’s and the first half of the 70’s lol! Dad didn’t believe in throwing money away on a color set, he just didn’t think it was that important. It was quite surprising to see all those shows from the 60’s that were in color for the first time.
Sad to see all the stuff that made America great is gone☹
Sad indeed. Zenith, Polaroid, Ampex, Singer, Remington-Rand, multi-lifetime Schwinn bicycles & even GM, just to name a few. Lets not forget Good-Humor, Breyer's, Ebinger's and Dugan's desert products, that were to die for. What a great country we had. Brings tears to my eyes. Younger generations that weren't there, could never understand. Finally, at least from personal experience, living in Brooklyn, no one cared about race or color. Most all would routinely joke about their own breed. Politicians & the media changed all that.
My parents got our first color TV a Zenith, no less, in 1971. It was incredibly heavy with a handle on the top. They had the audacity to refer to it as “portable” 😂
The Good Old Days . I miss them 😊🇺🇸
Live color TV from the 1950s and 60s is amazing.
The heart warming story of a father who takes his little girl to the ballpark and has a psychotic break
😂😂😂
Too bad Rifftrax didn't get a hold of this promotional film sooner. 😆
While he, and everyone around him, subjects her to second hand smoke.
Ha!!!! And he realized real life is in color!
Our Zenith only caught fire and burned down our first home.
My family's first color TV was a Zenith- in January 1972.
Our family's first color was a Quasar Magnavox with the works in the drawer.
It was a long time before we got color tv, too.
Gotta admit, if I didn't have a color set yet, back then, and watched this promo, I would of bought a Zenith.
I was thinking the same thing. This was a very well done advertisement and definitely works
Wow educational I can only imagine how expensive that was.
I wish I could afford a old zenith set from the period.
A 20 inch roundie. The old phosphorus coatings have such a nice vibe.
The quality goes in before the name goes on.
What a great film promotion for Zenith. That was a great company. Too bad they are gone . We don't have many great firms like that here anymore, that produced a great line of products that supported the USA. Sad, we have to rely on other countries for stuff today.
We buy for the price nowadays not was made in the US
"We surround each dot with a jet-black matrix." I believe it was Zenith that gave us the black matrix picture tubes with improved contrast- the "Chromacolor" picture tubes.
The black shadow mask was Chroma Color and they had Chroma Color 2 as well I think. It made the picture brighter and possibly 2 was the higher brightness rare earth phosphors the newer tubes had like the ad is saying. My first color TV was a used 69 Zenith 23" tube set I paid 115 bucks for in 73. Saved my berry picking money all summer to buy it.
The epitome of the phrase 'They don't make 'em like they used to!'
You had to have Money to get Color TV then, We didn't get one till 75. We had a Big B&W TV that was made about 1957.. FM Radio was expensive too! Our first Color TV was Zenith, the old one was a Magnavox.
Our first color TV was a Sony Trinitron in 1979.
The idea of Zenith is to serve people who know quality when they see it.
Color television is amazing.
At first. 😕
Wow... Color television! What an age we live in! What's next, portable telephones?
I love that I'm able to view this, even if it is hokey as hell lol. Posterity is sooooo important.
This video made me to throw out my new flat screne smart TV and buy good old Zenith... And also pack of smokes :P
Good Luck getting a signal...📺
@@luisreyes1963 The snow is better than what is on TV anyway.
@@luisreyes1963 yeah instead of smokes he have to get a digital box you get better channels than on satellite .
C nut. Zenith. See not. 😋
A friend of mine who lived in Connecticut for 4 years, his family when return to Chile in 1980 (where I write) I remember they had a Zenirh Color TV set, and a remote control throw ultrasound system as footage shows. When a key was press it a metallic sound can be heard, as a _cling_ . for basic adjustments. And I also noticed screen shadow had rounded dots, not rectangular bricks blue, red, green as several Color TV set used to use.
My father in 1979 bought a Sharp 19", we had a General Electric for two weeks before, but it had some problems when night due low voltage in the city, so it had not auto-voltage system, wich cause of a reduced frame of image after 8 of night. Fortunatelly Chile choosed NTSC system in 1978, some other countries here in Southanerica prefiered PAL European color system. I say this because my friend arrived from USA and his family could not have watched their Zenith TV set.
©2021, Cristian. Thanks for reading me. ,😘
Amusing to see a company touting point-to-point hand wiring over printed circuits. It makes sense for tubes, but once transistors became standard, point-to-point was basically ancient history, and an absolute rat's-nest nightmare to troubleshoot.
Good hi fi units are still hand soldered.
I am a fan of, and provider of, a "wheel alignment for your TV" of sorts: Calibration.
Using industry-reference standardized patterns, I can set the Contrast, Brightness, Color, etc. to where they belong, for transparent display of the original signal or content.
Unfortunately, today's flat screen HD panels are factory configured with the equivalent of having all the controls on these old Zeniths turned up to the max! And that is influencing the set buying public's concept of what is a 'good' picture.
My goal is to undo such falsehoods, and help people achieve the most accurate image they can from their TVs. Plus, extend the life of the TVs
Today we take color television sets for granted. Back then it must have been like how buying a gaming PC is today.
It was a big investment.
See the kid on the floor? That was me growing up. I was the “automatic” channel changer. Are you here to rob me? Yes, hand over those gold-plated tuners!
If I had to buy a color TV 1967 it would have been zenith
"wow its in color!"
this reminds me of an old zenith tv company joke about a person asking for a raise. as we all know there slogan is - the quality goes in b 4 the name goes on...
A person asked for a promotion and a new name plate on her door and she seemed to not be getting it so it seemed to them to her.
When asking why to her male boss he said the quality goes in b 4 the name goes on.
20:07 Second girl from the left looks exactly like Tina Louise (Ginger from “Gilligan’s Island).
Stan Fiedler had at least one of these sets in his Arcade(Janesville, Wisconsin). I have one of them. It's not being used, but last time I plugged it in, it looked like it would work. I wonder how many "Vizeo" sets will still be working after 50/plus years?
quiet a few and if there not working a re cap will get them up and running
Today that little girl is a woman telling her therapist of the day her father finally took her to the ball park, only to begin talking to nonexistent people in front of the crowd. She hasn’t gotten over the stigma yet! 🙄
0:30 Smart decision! But wow, look how many were smoking!
I doubt anyone remembers what it was like when an actual TV repairman came to your house and replaced a tube or replacing one yourself, taking the used tube to the store and plugging it in to a tester on a display to see if the tube was really bad then picking a new tube from the many types available. It wasn’t very long from 1960 that the Japanese revolutionized TV manufacture and the modern electronic components changed the way TV’s were manufactured in a mere 20 years American made TV’s vanished overnight and the last American made TV was Curtis Mathis, very good brand it was gone by 1982, however the company still exists as it diversified into other things.
Powder River you got me on that one. You mean people would take out their TV tube to have tested?
Lior Holtslag yes because sometimes the tube still functioned, however it wasn’t at peak performance they either blew out or kind of half worked.
i remember being with dad doing that stuff. Peeps did not like paying 5 bucks for an expensive one so you hoped those were ok.
Peeps used to check all of them while at itm if anything was wrong rather than pay a repairman... remember western auto and
@@scootin123 Not the picture tube, that was usually checked in set by the service tech. The other tubes were easily removed and some recommended that you pull every (other) tube and take them in to test every few months to find them as they were going bad. I don't think HV rectifier tubes were commonly pulled (DIY TV repair articles of the 60s kept you out of the HV cage if I recall correctly).
Here's the strange thing, just because a tube tests bad, doesn't mean it is bad, if it tests good, it could be bad. The best tester is the device itself. In big cities, it was possible that you could have really bad tubes in the IF section, but since the signals were so strong the weak tubes didn't show up unless tested. Tubes were sometimes bad out of the box (I know a former TV tech that told me a story about how he and another tech ended up sending a set to Zenith depot repair for a bad tube).
Vacuum tubes are still used in a lot of applications. TV transmitters for example are still sometimes using tubes. Your microwave oven has at least one. Anything with a Vacuum Fluorescent Display has that tube in it. CRTs of course are vacuum tubes as well.
I used to do exactly that !! Pull them out, take them to Thrifty drug store , find the bad one, take the new one home, install, boom tv fixed. 😊
My first television was a Zenith chromecast and that Tv lasted me 20 yrs and played well . I gave it to the Salvation army.
Did you remember to apologize for the way you have treated the poor? The Army wants us to do that now.m
After I have watched baseball on tv, it was a letdown when I actually went to a live game. The ballpark was much smaller than I visualized from tv or radio.
The Space Command added around $100 to the price.
All those jobs lost, never to return. No wonder we are a dying country.
Zenith really used to push their stereo gear back in the day. It was advertized constantly... radio, TV, magazines. In the early 70s I remember my parents fell for all the ads and finally bought a Zenith "Allegro" stereo system and I was so excited. But I ended up so disappointed... it sounded like cheap low end garbage... especially compared to my friend's Marantz Advent system.
By the time the Allegro stuff was introduced, most American products were "compromised". The Marantz / "Original-Advent" system is still highly revered in 2022. STILL sounds more enjoyable than contemporary "high-end" systems, costing more than a Lexus (or even a good home, in some cases). BTW, Zenith made really good console audio, up until they introduced the solid-state stuff. They even had sealed speaker enclosures. Once they began advertising "high-power" 240-watt (EIA peak) amp sections, they weren't the same quality.
They did invent stereo tv sound.
Interessante io sono in Italia mi ricordo quando fabbricavano qui i tvc Grundig / Minerva a catodo duravano una vita si parlò di 45/55 anni fa' ero un bambino ora i tvc led o OLED chinesi /o sud corani o giapponesi durano 3 anni una volta la tecnologia durava ora obsolescenza programmata
Zenith was instrumental in developing the current HDTV standard, and video streaming. But they didn't have enough funds to keep developing their own technology. The company was sold to LG of Korea in the mid 90s. 😢
Gold never wears out?, it's a very soft metal so most certainly does wear and that is partially why it is used as due to the fact that it does wear it's self-cleaning.
While gold is soft, they mentioned the tuners were 16k gold, which is relatively hard. And gold isn't "self-cleaning" because it wears. Gold reacts with very few things, so there's nothing to "clean". That inertness is why when people find gold, it's almost always quite pure.
"The parts go in, before the name goes on."
A look at when Zenith TVs were the height of American technology.
Unfortunately today, we have let substandard become the norm, buying low quality televisions from a discount retailer such as Walmart. When I was young, the mentality was different, you didn't buy a television for your family room from a discount retailer, you would be ashamed to have people over if you did. You worked hard for your money, so you bought a good television from a reputable quality retailer. I remember the only cheap television that my father ever bought was a 13" Sanyo from Zody's because my mother wanted a small TV in the dining room, and cheap it was, didn't last more than a few years. Our good television was a Zenith sold under the Montgomery Ward house brand name and lasted for more than 30 years.
I dunno. I'm still on the fence about color TV 📺 Maybe next year I'll buy one
I would love to see a video just like this for my Samsung 50" Crystal UHD 8000 Series 4K TV.
Hilarious. 😑
I wonder where the public would have seen this film. Was it still common at the time of this film for large corporations (like General Motors) to provide 16 mm promotional films to churches and other social organizations? I know that many films were not quite 100% product promotion from start to finish like this one.
Zenith returne to Brazil 😊😊😊😊
Didn't the first color TVs have issues with producing X-rays?
That was GE
@@docgonzo1973 GE was the worst offender, but pretty much all the early sets did so. The cure was to use leaded glass for the CRT and high voltage tube envelopes, and eventually eliminate the high voltage rectifier and regulator tubes altogether.
Take a look at my old philco ford tv.
8:30 I don't know why none of the manufacturers (to my knowledge) used the fiberglass PC boards that were, even then, common in computer and military applications. Sure, they would have cost more than phenolic, but they were nearly indestructible and would have cost less than a point-to-point-wired chassis.
Agreed, except my industry observation when it comes to somewhat newer tube gear. I'm a fan of Audio-Research gear, from 1980 through the mid 90's or so. Though the glass P-C boards never give out, they are too rigid to move with tubes heating and giant high voltage storage capacitor "buzz". Every failure (other than tubes of course) resulted from solder-joint to PC failure. There's no "give" that hand wiring allows. Seen this dozens of times. I heavily solder these joints, and it seems to alleviate the issue. At least I think so. There's no doubt in my mind, that hand wiring has its advantage. Many high-end audiophile (tube) brands still "hand wire".
High end audio home equipment did use those boards.
I have a Zenith Space Command Television works perfect, added a converter box with a built in DVR recorder.
Nice to see some people preserve classic video technology. 📺
My mother had one Zenith like those that heated and took fire in the curtain.
That's not Zeniths fault.
In the 60s, other American manufacturers were starting to get worried about Asian manufacturers like Sony and Goldstar. Zenith executives said that Asian companies would never be worthy competitors, since they "made only junk". Boy, were they wrong.
They eventually were bought out by the Korean firm Goldstar (now LG) so.....
Can horse and car races be far behind for the young lady?
Funny that they tout handwiring over PCBs.
How many jobs did we export overseas since this was made?
Too, too many. 😢
Bring back these TV's they work better for bringing in Antenna Reception best ever I love my Antenna TV's are better
POPCORN CARAMEL ,HOT DOG AND ONE COKE YUMMY
What is a tube ?
cathode tube.
Aaaaand it’s ironic that it’s filmed in black and white lol
Ah yeah, the pre-RoHS era.
That guy couldn't put down the cigarettes.
EI NIS FROM YUGOSLAVIJA 😍
What part?
Visited a friend who had the first remote control in our neighborhood. If you hit your hand on the floor it changed the channel. (I want quality color, and lung cancer!)
So printed circuits are bad news waw must remember that...
Zenith made a point at the time. PC boards (favored by RCA and others) did not hold up well with the heat tubes generated. On the other hand, the "hand crafted chassis" were/was (probably) more expensive to build. Zenith DID begin to use PC boards on TV sets as they became solid-state. Zenith made a lot of "hybrid" models that took the tube count down to four (3 in horizontal, 1 in vertical) before they went 100% solid-state in the 1970's.
Notice how almost everything the father said started with 'My'. "My color TV, my sound, my quality, my my my my my" !!! Why were all American men in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and on and on, always declaring everything as 'My' ? His poor wife was just sitting there obediently as he droned on and on about everything being his. I'll tell you something, I'm in The UK, and if I ever did that my wife would dump the bloody TV on me!
It's sad the big names are nothing but names on stickers that are slapped on cheap made junk now.
where was mean joe greene in the tunnel
These days people will nick that telly just to harvest the gold in the tuner, just as they are nicking catalytic converters for platinum.
Why do they call TV a "set" Set of what? it's a single unit, not a set of parts that require assembly.
Indeed it is a set if parts that make up a television
Because it was the chassis and the cabinet. Back then you could also buy just the chassis.
@@sambaker3233 Especially if you bought a Heathkit....
Everybody's smoking at the ball game lol
An American company bought out by a Korean company and is no longer sold
7:58 No printed circuits. I am a bit surprised that would be an advertising point. I don't really know how those loose wires and semi exposed individual components are better than PCBs. Maybe PCBs made in 1960s are in far worse quality compared to today ?
They were a lot easier to work on than printed circuit boards. It takes a lot more skill and soldering equipment to remove components from a pcb. The pcb is easier to manufacture and harder to work on. There are advantages to each system though. Tv companies did start making tv's with removable pcb's so when the tv repairman made a house call, he could swap out a bad board instead of taking the tv back to the shop. The tv shop then sent the bad boards back to the factory to be refurbished.
PCBs and vacuum tubes were a bad combination for reliability. The heat from the tubes would slowly char and warp the cheap paper based phenolic boards used at the time. PCBs didn't really become reliable until transistors took over, reducing the heat load, and glass/epoxy boards became more common, improving mechanical strength.
I swear the narrator of this film sounds like Leonard Nimoy
She used to really love baseball, until she realized how boring it is.
half deaf construction worker bragging about the sound what a joke 2:45
Смотрел и чуть не расплакался. Почему раньше техника была произведением искусства, а сейчас такое одноразовое говно? Раньше телевизор могли купить один и на всю жизнь.
Dose zenith make T.V.s anymore?
Golden Dreams unfortunately no Zenith went out of business in the 1980’s. Curtis Mathis was the last American made TV and it went out in the 80’s as well. You may see names from time to time but none are the real companies that used to exist just maybe a licensed name to whom may own it.
Golden Dreams my parents always insisted on a Zenith Television, but we never owned a color Zenith
My family had an Admiral 27 inch console from the late 70`s that was given to us. The picture tube only produced green so that had to be replaced. It was around $400.00 in 1984 money to get it done.
When Zenith got bought out by Goldstar in the 90s the quality went straight to the crapper. I remember I was an audio technician and having mandatory overtime on an Saturday replacing picture tubes on Zenith only tvs that were under warranty. They were complete JUNK!
@@docgonzo1973 so basically zenith got a gold star and then that was it. Oof!