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Originally Posted by andy
You're right about RCA and Zenith being hard to beat. I'm just finishing up a 1968 Toshiba, and while it looks good, it just doesn't have the same pleasing rich color of RCA and Zenith. By the 70's most manufacturers had caught up. I guess IC based color decoders were more likely to be well designed than tube circuits.
A lot of those so called auto color systems actually distort the color decoding so that flesh tones look more natural over a wider range. It does make the setting of the tint control less critical, but it also makes the color less accurate. I always turn off the auto color on any sets that have them. It's not needed with today's stable broadcasts. Even my vintage TVs rarely require adjustment.
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Your right Andy, once color and electronics in general entered the solid state era, although there were differences between brands as time went on and you didn't really know who made what, the differences seemed to evaporate.
I'm sure that for most of the guys on this forum if we were around during the time when some of these beauties were brand new, we could have eeked a good picture out of most of them. The problem early on was people with color sets didn't really know how to adjust them, and most of the techs of that era were'nt a lot of help, with the exception of the factory trained techs.