[RVonse]

Many years ago I worked in a tv repair shop and I saw a lot of earlier "round" sets from the 60s when they were still in common use.

RCA had the best engineering and probably the best picture to my eyes, but the Zenith sets were built with outstanding quality. Motorola and Zeniths were still hand wired which in my opinion was much more reliable than the circuit boards RCA and most others were using. And if the customer accidentally dropped a Zenith chassis to the ground it was likely to survive unlike most others. But in the earlier years of color, I did not think Zenith used as good of demodulator as RCA and the Zenith picture just did not look as natural to me.

Admiral did not have very good color system either, noticably worse then others to my eyes. Always a reddish tint mixed in the whites.

Generally the biggest weekness of General Electric was in their IF amplifier stages which contribututed to smearing in the picture.

Silvertone, Curtis Mathis, and Airline were basically junk. Motorola developed their own chassis but the others based on RCA but using cheaper parts. And you could see it in the picture quality.