The second set of controls for VIR only meant that there were two ways for the consumer to monkey with the color setting and make everything terrible with or without VIR. The awful truth of VIR to the consumer is that only GE sets seemed to support it, and GE had a reputation for lousy quality and iffy reliability.
There were three GE color 19" sets in the extended family (one a JCPenney rebadge) and each one had a CRT that went bad quickly with weak green and smeared reds. The one my mother had came with a hair-trigger color-killer that no number of shop trips could correct. I think they gave up after the 8th repair visit. The tube went south and lost correct color along with focus within 5 years from new even with minimal hours (due to that color-killer annoyance).
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