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Oldtvman you are right, and the same applies to a lot of things. Carburetors is what I thought of reading your post. Chokes made cars stall, sputter, smoke, hard to start, hard to keep running etc. Back in the days of my old '73 mustang I took off my old 2V and put on a 2700VV Veriable Venturi from ford as soon as they hit the junk yards. Properly set up our family had 2 of them, one on our NEW '79 Mercury LTD station wagon. Properly set up it got 27mpg highway on that '79. That same carb got my rustang to go from 15mpg modified standard 2V factory, to 21 Highwqay with the 2700VV. I remember how at the time people were telling me how they removed these carbs and replaced them with regular 2V carbs because "no one knows how to adjust them" It took me over a month to set this thing up for my engine the first time, but it ran like a dream once the work was done. The early tv set color or not, might need a little touch up of the fine tuning now and then. My old color sets once set up seem to work fine. I remember doing home calls and just readjusting the set, turning down the brightness, and contrast so it didn't look like a spotlight, and trimming the color to realistic levels. The funny thing was that it seemed that customers would adapt whatever I set it to. I thought that it sure seemed that a lot of people not only were not able to turn just one knob at a time and optomize just that one knob, but were unable to tune all of the knobs to create a pleasing picture for themselves. I think that in some cases the color was turned up way too high, just so the colors were easily seen. There was no mistaken' that that shirt was bright red! kinda thinkin' In the same way, I did not know anyone that did not go out and floor-it in the car right after a tune up to see if it performed better. I think people thought by flooring-it you could surely see a performance improvement over your regular daily driving when you often did not floor-it. Individual perceptions or misunderstandings of complex things, I think is why tv manufacturers adopted one button auto-color, which later faded away.

You know....... transistor bulbs. All that really needs to be said.