27" sets?
 

When did 27" sets start appearing? Where there any tube chassis sets with a 27 inch screen?

As far as color TV's, I believe it was in the early '80's. I know of no older tube chassis 27" color TV's; however, I think there were some higher end 27" tube type B&W's during the '50's and '60's. Up until the early '70's, a 23V was the largest color TV that was available as far as CRT direct view. Sometime around '70-'71, they came out with a 25V color CRT. In the very late '70's, Sony introduced a 26" color TV.

In monochrome there was the 30" Dumont Royal Soverign in the early 50's.

I know both Zenith and Magnavox had 25" color sets in the mid 60s.

Your thinking bulb size not viewable area. Around 1967-68 CRTs lost 2" off their designation numbers because the govt passed a law forcing makers to designate tubes based on viewable area and not bulb size as had been the standard so a 25--P22 became a 23---P22.

at one time in the very early 70s,a maker was touting the 25v crt as a 27 inch.it was a small maker but i cant remember which one.this campaign lasted about 6 months before the crts were labeled 25v.maybe olympic?any else remember this charade?

10 different 27 inch monochrome tube types had been registered before 1961, so somebody had been building sets with them. I believe RCA had manufactured a 27 inch set in either '53 or '54.

i was referring to color crts.saw plenty of 27 inch b/w back then.

The OP was in the wrong place anyway. He specifically asked about tube chassis sets in the solid-state TV forum.

yes,a hybrid with the 25v crt that was advertised as a 27 inch screen.it may have been an olympic brand that was built by wells-gardner maybe?my memory is clear on this claim but not on the specific maker.

Well, the thing of it is, I just wanted to know when 27" sets came out, and if so, where there any tube chassis sets. It's kind of a general question that could have gone in either, and there is no general TV forum.

IIRC Zenith 27" started with Y line. ( 9-181 sets) The Sony 26 was the
first over 25" that I remember.
when I was a kid my father bought a BIG maggy B&W.
It was no UHF so '64 or before. It was biggest anyone made
then I think 27" ( advertized). It had that strange toned picture
I remember on old Maggies even noticable to me. It was a
toilet, junked in '67 for a Zenith color.

73 Zeno:smoke: