Color C.R.T. producers

[Telecolor 3007]

I'm curios, up from 1967 (when color television was introduced in Europe) till the last days of the C.R.T., who produced color picture tubes in all countryes of the globe? (black and white pictures tubes where more then of the color ones - even in Romania we made B & W picture tubes).
In Europe, I can give a generally list, because I don't know who made color pictures tubes in Western Germany and if in U.K. they ever made color pictures tubes.
1) U.S.S.R. - they had unleass one during the era of the delta tubes; during the era of the in-line tubes I think they had 2 or 3 (Moscow, Leningrad (Sankt Petersburg) and Kiev); I heard about one in one of the baltic countries, but I don't know when the production started;
2) Turkey - did they ever made color picture tubes?;
3) Hungary - did they ever made color picture tubes?;
4) Poland - "Unitra"-"Polam";
5) Czehsolovakia (Czech Republik) - "Tesla" (I think only in the days of the in-line picture tubes);
6) France - "Thompson";
7) Italy - "Videocolor" (did they ever made delta picture tubes?).
From the producers above, color tv assambled in Romania during the '80's used "Videcolor", "Unitra"-"Polam" and "Tesla" picture tubes;
8) Eastern-Germany (G.D.R.)- R.F.T. (I think only during the days of the in-line tubes);
9) Western-Germany (F.R.G.): who made pictures tubes around there? "Telefunken" and who;
10) U.K. - did they ever made color picture tubes?
11) Other countries from Europ made color C.R.T.'s?

12) In Japan, we must put "Sony" on the list with theyr <<Trinitron>> and "Toshiba" (unleass in the days of the in-line picture tubes - my nickname haves one); did "Panasonic" made delta picture tubes or only in-line ones? Same about "Hitachi".

[Username1]

Toshiba did make Delta gun tubes....

[zeno]

Panasonic made deltas & IIRC Sanyo, Hitachi and
probably most the other big Jap companies did.
Later Jap sets mostly 19" and above used US tubes often.
Probably only for sets going to north or south America.
Sylvania, RCA & Zenith all were used.

73 Zeno

[Alastair E]

MULLARD, MAZDA to name but two pretty well known--even now Ex CRT makers....

Made both Delta and PIL CRT's as well as scope, radar, you name it tubes.....

Most every British built mono and colour set had one of the above make tubes until the European CRT's and Japanese sets came in After the lifting of the 20" embargo.....

[Telecolor 3007]

"Mullard" lately belonged to "Philps". I heared they made one of the best tubes.
I've read about the decline of British made tv sets (and I've seen on oldtechonogy.net some awsome looking British one... unfourtenly I never seen a British tv with my bear eyes - only on the interenet...).
And I've seen 2 1962-1964 Japanese sets (bought in Romania for experimental N.T.S.C. brodacasting) with "R.C.A." picture tube (I'm not shore about the "Victor/J.V.C.", but the "Hitachi" CT-150 had an 21CYP22A round picture tube).

[jhalphen]

Hi to All,

@TeleColor 3007: Color CRT production in France.
Philips had a financial stake in RTC-Compelec and they set up a factory in Dreux to produce the first 63cm Delta gun color CRT for the introduction of color TV in France in 1967. The CRT P/N was A6311X. The factory produced thereafter CRT for the next 3 decades.

Thomson (no "P") massively produced tubes, usually under licence from RCA under the VideoColor brand. They had a factory in the Lyon area. There was also a huge plant in Italy at Agnani which Thomson purchased. They went on until the end producing 16:9 flat-faced in-line CRTs.

Holland: Philips of course produced millions of CRTs under their own brand name.

Japan: Matsushita, Panasonic's parent company produced Delta gun tubes, you can easily find brochures of Panasonic color TVs starting in the second half of the 1960s which still used tube then hybrid electronics.

Have a look at Yahoo! Japan's vintage TV section, lots of brochure photos to capture:
http://translate.google.fr/translate...2%26slider%3D0

Starting in the late 80s, Sony/Matsushita/Hitachi developed extremely fine beam CRT technologies for miniaturized high-resolution TV camera viewfinders. Some were as small as 0.8" diagonal for the full picture!

Korea: also made color CRTs, Samsung for one.

China: a big maker was Chungwa Picture Tubes. Many small (5") B&W but also color.

Taiwan: also made CRTs. AuOptronics was a maker, now a leading supplier of LCD flat displays.

Japan: Japan was very innovative in color CRT technology with a strong desire to bypass the RCA shadow mask design.

Sony: aside from the famous Trinitron, Sony built 3 gun Chromatrons, 1 gun Chromatrons and the Indextron series.

Sanyo: also ventured into the single-gun Beam-Index concept with the 30CTV1 pocket color TV.

Hitachi: made a 1.5" Beam-Index CRT used as a color viewfinder for consumer VHS video cameras.

See Marshall W.'s great site on micro color TVs and "alternate" color CRT systems. Lots of wonderful TV and screen shots to view!

http://www.visions4.net/journal/time-line/
http://www.visions4.net/journal/chromatron/

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

[Telecolor 3007]

Thanks a lot for the info!
So after all "Videcolor" pictures tubes for the <<Teleclor>> where produced in France.
Romanians have good opinions about old "Thomson" tv sets.
In Western-Germany I think "Valvo" also made color C.R.T.'s
In Republik of Korea (South Korea) "GoldStar" (today "L.G.") made color C.R.T's too. I heared that the "Samsung" C.R.T. sold in U.S.A. market wheren't very good. In Romania, the "Samsung" tvs sold in the '90's lasted 14-18 years (or even more).

[arslan1]

[AlekZ]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

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4) Poland - "Unitra"-"Polam";

In Poland B&W CRTs were manufactured by ZWLE (only CRT 31LK2B and very shortly (1956?). It was USSR licence). ZWLE was transformed to Polam in 1960s. But in this moment CRTs was not manufactured by Polam.
In 1958 we bought Philips licence and we started B&W CRTs factory called Zelos (later Unitra- Zelos). I heard that our comrades in the USSR were not satisfied with this.
The same situation was in 1976, when we bought licence for color CRTs from RCA
Comrade Gierek did the right thing: he gave up the Soviet "miracle" delta CRTs...

There is some pictures of Zelos:
http://www.pwl.mikrokontroler.pl/zelos/zelos.htm
and Polkolor:
http://www.pwl.mikrokontroler.pl/polkolor/polkolor.htm

[AlanInSitges]

There was a Miniwatt CRT factory here in Spain up until the mid-70s, I believe these were Philips CRTs being put together in Barcelona. There was also a GE(E) CRT factory in Madrid during the 60s and 70s, but as far as I know GE didn't sell any color sets here so I suspect they were only B&W CRTS. They had American numbers on them FYI.

[old_tv_nut]

Great information - thanks!

[etype2]

Originally Posted by jhalphen

Hi to All,


See Marshall W.'s great site on micro color TVs and "alternate" color CRT systems. Lots of wonderful TV and screen shots to view!

http://www.visions4.net/journal/time-line/
http://www.visions4.net/journal/chromatron/

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

Fixed broken links.

https://visions4netjournal.com/vintage-micro-tv/

https://visions4netjournal.com/422-2/

[MX70]

Anyone know who made colour crt s in Canadian built Electrohome sets in the 1970s? Thanks

[zeno]

Most likely Sylvania, RCA or Zenith. If you have one look for a 3 or 4
digit EIA number on the CRT tag or post a pix of the tag. That can ID it.
Keep in mind thats for real Electrohomes. They also had sets built
by MGA, Panasonic & probably others.

EH sets were really good. Like most US sets they were built for rugged
simplicity & serviceability. Many Advent video beams had EH chassis & were sold under the EH brand in Canada. Advent also used Sylvania chassii on some

73 Zeno
LFOD !

Originally Posted by MX70

Anyone know who made colour crt s in Canadian built Electrohome sets in the 1970s? Thanks

[MX70]

Thanks zeno, my Electrohome was i think a 76 or 77 model made in Kitchener, Ontario and is unfortunately long gone. I do remember the servicability aspect of it, such as all the IC chips were socketed. My grandfather was the original owner and passed it on to me when I was 14 ( he bought a then new Hitachi) I kept the set going long as I knew how but junked it when it died with an impressive spark show from the HV section. I wouldn't mind finding another Cana-built Electrohome though.