I have gathered as much.
 

It is interesting that Motorola, being of the highest technology then like today, would have come out with a TV with so many built in problems.

Could they have done that intentionally for some business strategy?

How could they not know it was crap when they look at the color and it is not as good as the compitition?

On top of that, they charged a higher price for it and people still bought them!

The engineers had to know the color circuit was not good enough at the very least.

The Motorola executives had eyes to see the lower picture quality.

They would not have had the profits they could have had with a better set they could have made as the consumers also had eyes to see the picture and buy the compitition.

Could they have wanted to loose money as the evidence strongly suggests?

The secret decisions of big business are extremely interesting.

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This is a conversation that could lead to something very
 

worthwhile to learn.

Andy, I do trust that you know what you are talking about and I very much appreciate your input.


I had no idea that Moto products have so much negative about them.

I have always been impressed by the look of many of their products. I have always had the impression that the company is unbeleivably huge providing many products to the world since at least the 50's. They have impressive advertising and I have never heard the many consumers, I have been in the company of, complain. I have never heard or read any bad publicity about Motorola in general except here at this site from people who obviously know what they are talking about and have absolutely no reason to lie or exaggerate.


So, why has Motorola been such a successful company that must make a lot of money for a lot of people without having any signs of business problems? All things indicate they are strong as ever and expected to continue with their success.

Thanks

My grandfather bought recieved these Motorola
 

pens in 1966 and they still work great! He also uses a Motorola cell phone that is 2 years old and has never failed him once!

I am starting to wonder if the complaints here against Motorola products are for some personal reason.

I hope not as I would like us all to continue saying nice things or nothing at all!

mine does too. it also is horribly slow when deleting text messages. You can be typing a message and if one comes in there's a 2-3 second delay while it "thinks"

FYI, Motorola does not make chips, transistors, etc any more. This was either sold to On Semiconductor or spun off into Freescale Semiconductor(which was just purchased by a private equity firm).

That said, I too have a simpler and older Motorola phone that gives me no trouble. However, as far as older TVs are concerned, it has been my experience that their TVs were never the quality of RCA, let alone Zenith, even back at the begining. They always seemed to take shortcuts, using Selenium rectifiers in transformerless sets with the cheaper, wafer type tuners. They never became as bad as GE with some of their sets, but they were not the highest quality.

Motorola began as company in 1928. One of the first products was an automotive radio dubbed a "Motorized Victrola", hence Motorola.

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I wonder if Motorola radios were made under a different division...their console radio/phonos, car radios and even printed circuit board-based table radios of the 50's-60's seemed to be of pretty high quality.

I whole heartedly agree with oldtvman. Hey, all big companies have their cross to bear. Moto put out some good B&W products.

I can tell you how so many of these stinkers were sold in the St. Louis area. The discount retailer E.J Korvette (really) had literally a wall full of these things on the second floor at the top of the escalator. On Saturday night when "Flipper" was on, one's senses were overcome with a huge gigantic wall of Moto's with all that blue water. Since there are so many shades of blue water, and not many know the exact shade of a porpoise, a lot of poeple bought these. Oh, and don't forget Lawrence Welk color extravaganzas on Saturday night either.

Oh, the Flipper song included the line "no one you see ... is smarter than he". That's because Flipper never bought a Moto color set. But I'm sure he had the opportunity to see a few in Davey Jone's locker. :screwy:

Motorola did seem to be an "engineer's company" but somehow never built the highest quality products, at least not top to bottom in their product line. I want to be careful here, as I know we have a former Motorola TV engineer in our midst! There was owner loyalty built up over the years...not everyone cared about sloppy tuners on their '59 Moto nor did they care about less than perfect color, since they didn't have much to compare it to. They bought those sets from George, their friendly local Motorola dealer. You know George, he coaches little Billy's little league team, his store is right downtown between the corner grocery and the Sears catalog store. George wouldn't steer you wrong...

Another company that I consider an engineer's company is Sylvania...their sets could make a very good color picture but they had their problems, too. The last one I fooled with had circuit board traces that would lift if you looked at them funny.

i agree about motorola. a lot of their old stuff seems pretty solid and well built. now to get back on topic... i'll have those pictures soon