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Old 06-05-2012, 06:37 PM
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The title of this post made me initially thought of that cool funky Curtis Mayfield song "Freddy's Dead" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrv_61eRlsE lol but then realize it was that Freddy Krueger movie. Would you believe this movie really was what kickstarted my fascination of roundie television, I remember watching the movie on video back in 1995 when I was 14 and when I saw that old roundie come to life I thought it was quite fascinating as I've never really a TV like that before except a crude B&W photo of the CT-100 in an electronics magazine my uncle showed me which was when and I learned then that colour television started in 1954, so since then I was fascinated and hooked and wanted to know more and apart from a few history books, it wasn't until at least 4 years later when I got the internet I learned more about these type of TV sets. Anyhow that's how I came to be interested in roundie colour TVs! Also around that time I drew a few colour TVs back then, here's a couple of my roundie sketches I did then when I was 14, I branded them back then as UK brand PYE though they didn't make colour TVs back then to my knowledge. Trying to ID this set, it closely matches the early 60s Zenith colour sets, but not sure of which model.
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