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Old 04-21-2016, 12:35 PM
RCAZenith RCAZenith is offline
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Originally Posted by zeno View Post
A model V, SV, T, ST, S or SS is not part of the normal Zenith

line up. They were big store models. Made it hard for shoppers

to compare prices. Often they could be had at Mom & Pop

as overruns later on. They almost always had a cheaper look

to them.



Institutional sets like hotel, school, hospital etc. were NOT

from stores & usually quite different than regular line sets.

They were sold by the distributors or factory. They did not

come with labor warranties & often there is a tag on the

back stating that. Yours could be either, you gotta look for

the clues.



Servicing isnt much different as the main set is the same. Add ons

included wired remote, channel blanking, pay TV, alarms,

volume limit, computer monitor cards & other things over the

years.



73 Zeno




Here is a picture of it with my kid playing Berserk on it. It's all I had on my phone of it. It does kind of have a cheapie look to it. It basically looks like they took a dial set and replaced the dial with a keypad and eliminated the 300 ohm twin lead inputs. Were the "C"
Line of tv's commercial sets or consumer sets?
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