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Originally Posted by GeorgeJetson
There must not have been much on UHF back in the late fifties because I rarely ever see Predictas (or any set of that era) with UHF.
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It wasn't until 1964 that the FCC mandated all new sets sold be equipped with UHF. Prior to that it was optional. Or a converter was used. But get this - later it was mandated that all new UHF tuners be "as easy to use as VHF ", meaning detented rather than continuous tuning. Thus came the infamous click-stop tuning that rendered the shuddering "Rrrrrrrrrrrrip" when changing channels that weren't immediately adjacent on the dial. A classic case of a problem-less "solution" by bureaucracy.
