Somewhere around here, we have an old "Radio & Television" magazine from the 1950s with a cool color cover photo of a television control booth. It appears recently retrofitted with color equipment, one of the "monitors" being a commercially available color receiver.
A commercial tv isn't a bad idea for a monitor to see how the picture will play at home, but regarding the Predicta, I can't imagine the engineer opting for such a relatively unreliable and difficult-to-repair model. And we LOVE Predictas here!
It's a shame that
Down With Love begins so authentically with the original 20th Century-Fox CinemaScope banner, and then that "new" Predicta shows up.
It's not like they are
all that scarce.