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Old 11-08-2018, 07:20 PM
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My '65 Magnavox had large wide deluxe stereo cabinet with 12" woofers oriented outward and exponential horn speakers firing at 45 deg angles - inspired by JBL 'Paragon'?

It had a 23" rounded corner picture tube with green tinted escutcheon (like roundies) to make picture seem larger. It featured auto-color that could be selected with a slide-switch, along with thumbwheel controls (along upper back of TV) that allowed presets, that could be locked in with second slide-switch. Its chromatic signature - phosphors & matrixing - gave the picture a felicitous, warm red/yellow character.

It said made in Indianapolis. Their manufacturing plant must have had a rail siding like Zenith's Chicago plant to ship the big consoles cheaply! Maybe the same facility Philips later took over with the buyout? Philips wanting to really learn the meaning of pain competing directly with the Japanese!
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