Philharmonic 15" ad on ETF

[vintagecollect]

Hello,

Just had to chime in. Cool set, 1 may turn up in future. You know early color sets REALLY had an uphill battle to simply survive. Minimal programming in color in most areas along with limited to poor support service. That 15" crt design is fragile, when I was growing up most people junked color TV's when CRT died, regardless of rebuilding , too costly. I'm amazed half of the older people I talk to don't think color tv came out til the 1960's or 1970's.

Standardized parts for different makes, LIKE FBT's etc could of made obtaining parts in general easier to make and obtain. Better color programming could of better justified getting such pricey sets repaired and kept longer.

Simply frustrating that some worker at RCA couldn't tried to save egineering data and other on early color designs now in trash heap. RCA must of known of 15" CRT problems.