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They were barely visible when new. The shop I worked in as a kid had the pleasure of servicing one of these for a long-time customer, who had gone to the big city to buy it since we were a Zenith town. It was very novel at the time; the only similar size picture on the market was the Kloss Novabeam, which was much more expensive and was a front-projection set.
I remember going on the first (of many) service calls and my boss laughing out loud when we realized it was just a small picture tube hooked to a 25" chassis. The complaint was horrible color, blue faces, saturation going up and down like crazy. It turns out the set had the VIR "control room in your TV" feature, and none of the local stations were broadcasting a VIR color signal, so it was just randomly picking color/tint levels. The fix was to turn off the VIR feature.
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