Watch a 1969 Zenith Color TV! The Last evening of NTSC broadcasting
Вставка
- Опубліковано 20 чер 2009
- This was recorded on 6-11-09, the last day for analog TV transmission in the USA. This is the Zenith 23" metal cabinet color TV model Z4507, 16Z8C50 chassis.
I had that exact set 38 years ago. Those Zenith sets even then had brilliant crisp picture.
Excellent sound from that set! Even with analog TV gone, it would still be great for playing tapes/DVDs of old TV shows, to get that authentic old-time look and sound.
I love how long it takes to come on and the sound I remember turning the off and the hot spot fading out
That's a very nice set! Excellent purity and convergence. I think the color rendering on older sets seems better.
If they built quality electronics now like this TV was built, there would be a LOT LESS E-WASTE!
Doug really seems to know how to fix and align the electronics properly and set up the purity, grayscale, and convergence. I greatly admire his work. And he's a piping draftsman, not an electronics technician. God Bless!
I know right , I was born in 1976 . My parents had a big 70's Zenith TV that was in our living room until probably 1990.
Nowadays people get a new TV every 5 years either because they break or become outdated to whatever new streaming service you need.
These weren't bad for tube era sets but the next generation Chromacolor II sets held out alot longer although the early ones needed a repair to the HV section that was fixed on later runs.
I'm watching this 11 years later. It was the end of an era!
I don't know of anyone Chicagoan who ever got CBS 2 without static. I miss the old analog broadcasting... Great video and amazing TV!
Very nice vintage machine ! Excellent wooden cabinet !
Its a METAL cabinet that looks like wood. Very common then.
Very nice set! RIP analog.
You're the man. You've done an amazing job keeping all of your lost arts very well documented. These videos are going to be an important part of the history of technological advance in the United States someday. The last day of NTSC, awesome.
I actually prefer vintage analog sets to modern digital flat screens.
TV sets before the 1990s had unique individual styling from company to company .They began to look uniform in the 90s - black , boxy
I have this exact set. Was given to me by an elderly lady neighbor who knew I liked old electronics. She bought it new, was a bedroom set. Works great, good picture and sound. She gave it to me in 2002.
That was the Lawrence Welk show. Very popular show in the 60s and 70s and PBS started carrying it in the 80s, 90s and today.
Yes, any American TV made after WWII (and a few from before).
Old sets can still be used over the air using a DTV converter box, and I have one on a TV more than 10 years older than this one. I also gain remote control and all channel reception (drh4683's TV seen here has UHF channels, but my older set did not).
The one part not included with the box is a "300 ohm transformer", but they only cost about $5 USD.
Analog cable viewers can use the tuner in a VCR to get the cable channelsl
I still use a 1976 set by using a converter box and an coax to antenna wire adapter. It now has remote control due to the converter which it never before had! BTW we only had UHF stations here in the early 1950s and when you bought a set you always had to by a uhf converter and a "tennaroter".
I believe my uncle's 18-inch Zenith set that he bought in 1969 had this same chassis. The controls were laid out the exact same way.
Nice video about the last day of Analog TV broadcasting. What better way to say farewell than watching on a vintage TV set.
That TV has very good sound for a 1969 set!
Hello, thanks for your compliments. Yes, all of the converters sold here are equipped with an RF modulator. I am unaware of it being law, but I have never never seen a converter without one yet, and I have seen many different makes.
I love old TVs with those knob controls :) I have a 1985 LXI Squareview, oldest TV I've ever owned but I'm game for something even older if it comes along. It's so old, it can even see PAL inputs without scrolling.
I miss analog TV along with your TV videos. Wish you still uploaded videos about older Television sets.
Sometimes I wish I watched TV with you after seeing this.
Hi there, this is Gary, musicman0150, very nice demonstration of the last night of analog broadcasting. All those old TVs you have, keep them. They are still worth something because even though analog is basically gone, you still can relive the vintage viewing by watching old shows on DVD/VCR and/or cable. Granted it won't be the same as the original over the air broadcast but the TVs and hows themselves are a conversation topic for those not familier with the old way of viewing TV.
I love your videos. It is neat to see all these old sets.
Now this set would need a converter to work. These were great sets during their time. I used to service these... It is so long ago, I would not remember everything, but I do remember this model.
I loved how it took 10-15 seconds for the TV just to "warm-up".... I've forgotten how LONG that delay used to be before you could actually WATCH TV. - Also, that model is similar to the one that Archie Bunker had in his living room in "All in the Family".
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS dude it takes my lcd 45 seconds to boot up it has to show the logo for 30 seconds then I get a blank screen and after that the pic shows up.
The warm up time might have been worse for ones made shortly after the second world war.
@@tankmchavocproductions6907 My LCD takes one second to show the picture :)
Never tell someone to get with the times. We no longer have to think of the latest electronics since there are adapters that allow HDMI to be hooked up to RCA jacks that can be hooked up to analog TV’s.
Wow. What an amazing TV!! Beautiful picture! That show that was on your PBS channel looks like something that would have been on when this TV was new.
An amazing display of old technology blending with the new.
Thank You for this very informative video.
Man, I didn't want you to change the channel off that music show -- I was really enjoying that. :-)
Very impressive how good that thing sounded -- even over the microphone in your camera, you can still tell that that old set had a wonderful, rich sound. You just don't hear that anymore on built-in TV speakers -- modern built-in TV speakers are just so awful.
Anyone who cares about sound nowadays has an A/V receiver- most broadcast stations are even in Dolby 5.1 which you obviously can't reproduce through built-in TV speakers.
Well, there's simply no room for decent speakers inside the thin chassis of a modern tv.
They could at least put the speakers in the front of the TV instead of the back, but muh bezels
“And now for your viewing pleasure, we are going off the air!”
All older TVs still work with converter boxes with an ATSC tuner. Digital cable boxes will also work with older TV's as well. Both types of boxes convert the signal to RF channel 3 or 4.
Most areas in the US still have analog cable service available. All TV's will at least get reception on channels 2-13 with analog cable as the frequency of CATV 2-13 is the same as VHF 2-13.
nice vid! brings back memories of a similar set I found and repaired. it was used for several years until I moved it to a friends restaurant. it played there for a couple more years until the CRT finally got too weak. ...I have a similar Newcomb phono too.
Fantastic memory.
I miss this man's videos.
Me too. 😔
I remember my grandparents had one of those TVs in my dad's old bedroom back in Brooklyn. Many hours were spent playing Nintendo on that old thing.
I like old TV’s when it comes to a living room TV.
Dang. I was only 4 years old when the analog TV shut down. Very cool to see it working in this video
I wonder why I don’t miss analog TV. Maybe it’s because digital has HD and
UHD...And I still get it over the airwaves
Damn, it's hard to believe it's been 6 years since analog bit the dust. And not for the better, IMHO.
So, what do you miss about analog TV? Ghosts? Snow? Interference? Distorted sound and video? Faded color? Yep. Analog is gone. Thank goodness.
yeah but i've seen tvs with weak sadelite signals and it's a big glitchy mess so i don't see how analog was any worse honestly
@Kyle Dexter - Exactly. NOTHING about analog was good besides just being able to plug the cable directly into the tv and it worked right away. I'd gladly give it up in a second to have my 1000 channels, PVR, HD, and surround sound.
Crashdance22 My indoor antenna works with most, if not all of the city's stations even in the more inclement weather, I honestly don't know what you're talking about
In Canada over the air analog tv was phased out in 2012. Due to high cost and tight budgets the 2 largest public broadcasters CBC and TVO permanently shut down most of the low power transmission towers in rural communities.
I see. This TV would get warm and UHF would fade out and couldn't be tuned back in again until it cooled down. We only had one UHF channel in the area at the time, but that was the channel that had Star Trek reruns and we always hoped the signal wouldn't fade out until the episode ended. It was such a relief to get a TV that didn't have a continuous UHF tuner, so much easier to tune
A sad year indeed in the history of broadcast television!
I'm looking for a older tv like the one in the video
Yesterday marked 10 years since the big switch.
Always good sets
@grimmy74uk Originally, UHF tuners were an afterthought in this country. They were not made mandatory until sometime in 1964. Before then they were an expensive option. Then sometime during the early '70s the govt. mandated that sets had to have incremental UHF tuning, just like the VHF channels. The continuous tuner was the cheapest way to add UHF channels to TVs (but a pain for most users). The incremental units that came later used the same tuner but with mechanical gearing and detents added.
Nice memory to treasure on the last day of Analogue TV Broadcasting
great work.
I used to have a Quasar solid state 19" back in the '70s.
I have a couple of old sets that I still use for UA-cam sometimes. anything with rca outputs combined with a vcr or rf converter thingy can hook up to these old sets.
Most of those sets are still good for video gamers.
Back In November Of 2023 I Got My Grandparents Zeinth Floor Model TV Which Is Just Like Yours. I Put A Over The Air Converter Box To It And It Works, I Do Need To Locate A Cap In The Vertickle Section But It Does Have A Full Picture. Also I Do Need To Locate A Puture Tube Booster.
Wish they would go back to analog broadcasts. Digital TV reception is horrible.
I'd rather watch a somewhat snowy channel than the picture freezing every 2 seconds.
Love the Old Zenith sets like these! Awesome looking set and performer. Cheers! -Al
I remember watching the end of analog on a late 70's chromacolor ii tv now days I have a early 70's zenith black and white hooked to a cable box it feeds my need for a crt but I'll never get the satisfying clunk tuning again I'm not too far from blue island myself
A great picture for a TV that old. Hold on to it, I think it's too good to give it up, especially since the digital signals come in good thru the converter.
Ordered 2 coupons...
One was already cashed.
a station over here played the keyboard cat as there last transmission!
It looks like Andy’s TV set in Toy Story 2.
@TashkentFox
Not a law that ALL digital converters have an RF modulator, but close.
Most US converter boxes were designed to be "coupon eligible", as the US government provided millions of converter box coupons for a $40 (USD) discount on eligible boxes.
For a box to be coupon eligible, several standards had to be met, including, the RF modulator,
Some boxes before the coupon program, and a very few since the program ended, do not have a modulator.
Cool vid man.
I've never seen one with RF MTS audio out , but I can't say none exists, either. Outputting MTS would be somewhat harder than FM stereo out, since the L-R in MTS is compandered, and has more IP protection than FM stereo does.
Fortunately, all CECB's have stereo line level outputs.
Well all of our stations in the Omaha/ Lincoln & Tri-Cities went to digital from Feb. to June of that year (downside: once the analog transmitters shutdown & you only had a regular TV you'd get snow [sucks I know] & upside with digital you'd get more channels)
Unfortunate the end of analog TV fell under my radar because my family had Dish Network in 2009, we switched to Charter in 2003 when i was in first grade (and switched back to Charter in 2010) so that was the last time we used analog TV 2003 or before. Before we got our charter cable box we had the cable straight into the tv and was like of like antenna tv because you didn't get a program guide without the cable box.
Didn't know they did Peroni ads across the pond - or in any country besides italy
Damn 60s television Looks great
I knew Burr Oak TV very well. I was Budds Electronics in the 1970-1990
LOL that couldn't have worked out any better tuning in the news talking about it.
Do any converter boxes send a STEREO RF signal? Stereo RF modulators are quite rare, I want to get something that has one just so I can hear the stereo decoder in my new TV's analog tuner (wonder how long new TVs will keep having them?) There's a few low-power analog stations left but only one broadcasts in stereo, and it hardly ever comes in well. (Guess I'll NEVER get an SAP signal again either.)
Hello. Your videos are awesome and informative for people getting involved in the hobby of preserving vintage electronics. In another video of yours, "1971 Zenith Color Television Repair" you said that you would be willing to help out with service information and schematics. I was wondering, I have a swivel base set (with the regular tuner), and I am trying to troubleshoot some HV problems in it. It has this same chassis, the 16Z8C50 chassis. I wondered if you could help me out with service info and schematics. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for all of your awesome videos!
This TV was on right after I was born
Low-power analog stations are still around- I heard they will have to be gone by September 2013 though.
Very Sad. In Germany Analog TV Was Turned Off in 2011. That Was The Time Before I Had Rare Analog TVs...
Analog Cable Will Be Gone In Three Years Too.
But We Don't Have Cable In Our House.
wow what a coincidence today is 2019 that was three years before you added that comment.
Cable is digital now here in US. You pay a couple three dollars a month for a box for every TV. They can see what you're watching and target ads at you. If you don't pay your bill the computer can turn your service off. No lineman to climb the pole and disconnect you.
ATSC 3.0 in trials now. Will likely succeed and replace our terrestrial TV broadcast ATSC 1.0 and will give bi-directional data and equalize the advertising field for the terrestrial broadcasters. Also far more bandwidth and program availability plus great immunity to multipath reception interference. Looks like the next quantum leap in cable cutting.
Actually there are a few analog stations left. Low power outlets in small communities were exempt.
Our small rural community government is the only cable provider here. We get an analog signal only - and we get the same stations on 3 channels so they say we're getting x # of channels but some are 2 or 3 of the same. Rip-off!
@@nancyericson4263 I think it's cool that these are still functioning somewhere.
I've heard by asking around that the unused analog frequencies are now going toward other applications, so trying to re-open a signal to the analog TVs might mess up something big out there, who knows :/ I originally thought "wouldn't it be cool to actually have some system set up where some third party had seized analog signal rights and you could actually buy analog time and broadcast yourself on a channel like on UA-cam?
It'd be like a secret version of UA-cam, with the "tube" part being more literal XD
Just imagine having an analog TV turned on with the static going, and the channels just auto-searching, until you suddenly land on--
"Hello everybody! My name is Markiplier and what the HELL am I doing on this old analog TV station?! Well, I bought one hour's worth of time this evening from SalvAnalog, who now owns the rights to analog TV broadcasting, and I bet since almost nobody has this kind of TV anymore, only a few people can see what I'm doing here! I'm here advertising their service so others can see around the world..."
awesome
I like the Jazz music between 5:54 and 8:13. Does anyone know what the show with the jazz music is called?
This TV had a lot of noise on the display. It looks OK from a distance but it looks crappy on close-up.
I remember analog TV
you didnt show the very end of the transmission !
The good days I tell you.
1969 году цвет телевизор в СШа , как мы отстали от них у нас в СССР в то время о цветном телевизоре и не мечтали.Многие даже незнали про телевизор.В некоторых селах свет и радио в начале 70 годов провели.В нашем колхозе телевизор появился только 1973году и то плохо показывало.
yeah you can hear that, and it makes my ears sad
We Get WGN in Down state IL on cable
very neat! btw...do you know how to fix VCR's? because i have a vintage 1980's Fisher Studio standard VCR. It doesn't do anything....haha
WOW!, VERY NICE SET!!...I WAS ONLY 7 OR 6 YEARS OLD B THEN!!:>),
Do you have a digital converter box for 1969 Zenith TV set to receive digital over the air channels?
They're still available today online. Any digital TV converter box will do, but don't expect much because their quality left much to be desired.
For those who hadn't prepared for the shut off of analog TV, I mean really! for one thing, I know "digital goddess" Kim Komando would be furious and scold people! They had since at least January 2008 to prepare, ads for DTV switch have constantly aired, just over a year in advance of the original analog shut off date which was scheduled for Feb 17, 2009 but then got pushed to Jun 12, 2009.
I wouldn't want to run a tube based TV set very long because I would be afraid of the vacuum tubes failing and no one makes them anymore.
bradhig you can get them on ebay, russia still make them maybe you only need adaptors
Why do american TVs have a VHF tuner with clicking, incremental tuning, but a UHF tuner with continous tuning?
Does that question make sense?
That's a rather technical question. 🤔
Hi there, nice looking TV and excelllent picture and sound. Even thought 75% of the analog signals are now gone, I'd still keep the TV and all other vintage sets you have as a historic memory on how TVs progressed over the years. Check out my videos; on how I use UHF wireless transmitters to test older analog TVs to simulate the analog broadcast. Direct UHF modulators are now available; some even 3 channel units where the UHF range is from 14 to 78, for closed ciruit TV viewing in your home.
thats exciting-TV
I remember how pissed off I was with tv when dtv took over because the signal was shit but I only stream now
Your Zenith TV Will Work On A Converter Box.
A very sad day.
I had Satellite TV, so the change didn't affect me.
I don't live in the US which is why i'm asking this.
If you hooked up a digital cable box to that TV would it beable to work with all the digital channels and broadcasts?
No because digital and analog are different but you can use Set Top Box To Connect It
How much does the TV weigh?
I heard that high frequency noise.
Chicago Stations.
great tv music great generation todays sucks
Analog TV in the United States will finally end on July 13, 2021
What did this cost back in 1969?
I don't see no antenna on that tv
An outdoor antenna is hooked up.