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03-19-2013, 01:58 PM
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http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/phi...a_holiday.html Seems like Predicta was like the 'Edsel' of TV sets, beset with funkiness of design but highly collectable. 
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03-19-2013, 05:31 PM
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So does anyone know exactly why this set was called the 'Holiday?
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03-19-2013, 06:13 PM
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It's known as The Holiday since it was introduced by Philco during the Christmas holiday of 1958.
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03-19-2013, 06:18 PM
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I forgot to add-"during the shopping season"
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03-19-2013, 06:40 PM
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Ok that makes sense I thought that they were called that because they made some for the holiday inn
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03-19-2013, 07:11 PM
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As I am looking at the new caps put in I see some which are not in the right place exactly
 atleast he bought the correct values! I will put everything as it should be tonight and test the set again!
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03-19-2013, 08:39 PM
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Got the parts fixed and it still does the same thing. I guses I should wait untill my parts get here and they are installed to start trying to figure out what's wrong since about 40% of the paper caps are still in the set
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03-20-2013, 11:39 AM
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Predicta Holiday
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Rick Fray Cibolo, TX Novice vacuum tube fan
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04-03-2013, 01:17 PM
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From what I have read and gathered, the 17" sets where the ones pushed out to the motel chains, not the more expensive wood cabinet 21" Holidays, due to their cheaper cost and their failure in the consumer marketplace. These sets are the commonly seen beige colored cabinet Debutantes, where as the consumer versions were all in charcoal. They also lack antennas. These sets seem to have been made into 1961 while all consumer Predictas were dropped by then.
Philco also had a division called Tele-Sound that leased TV sets to the hospitality industry too that used these Predictas at that time.
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