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Old 05-14-2013, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by zeno View Post
I remember the AOC's never sold one but the earliest ones definitely
evolved from Admiral, even used same part # scheme. Rockwell must
have had it ready to go when they killed Admiral. At first they were good sets. MUCH better then the prev. 13-17-19"s. A one board set.
They evolved into a crap can in a few years, FBT's brewed up
often & ended them. They faded into the sunset after that.

Zeno
I've gotten several '80's AOC's with smoked FBT's. Even in the mid '90's, some of the FBT's were NLA and I junked the TV.

Speaking of Sylvania/Philco, I've got a 19" Sylvania from early-'82 (after the NAP buyout) that uses the E32 chassis; which, was a carry over chassis from GTE. I think that by the mid '80's, NAP had phased out all the old GTE designs and went with their own chassis. It's a shame that Philco, Magnavox, and Sylvania wound up being names slapped on low end Funai built garbage.
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