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Originally posted by heathkit tv
I recall many of the smaller screen sets not displaying the entire broadcast image....they were designed so that the center-most portion was onscreen so that you'd see more detail......think of the way roundies no longer show the word scroll along the bottom.
Anthony
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When roundies came along, TV stations didn't have scrolling news tickers at the bottom of the picture as they do now, so the problem you mention wasn't an issue then. Color TV was so new when the roundies were introduced that people generally didn't care about the slight imperfections in the pictures, as long as they weren't obscured by snow or ghosts. My first color set was a cast-off 1964 Silvertone roundie with terrible convergence, color sync problems, and, near the end, an intermittently blurry picture, but it didn't bother me; I was happy to have a color set, the video imperfections be darned. It made me appreciate the improvement when I bought my first new color TV in 1979, six years after my roundie bit the dust (broken tube socket in the video amp circuit panel), and every new color set I've owned since then, including my present set, an RCA CTC185 XL-100.
