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So even then they knew that they had something going on performance wise. I guess different markets serve different purposes and it holds true today. The more basic you keep something; the less likely that there is something that is going to break. BUT if there were no "big spender" market that wants to be trendy and have all the bells and whistles, then there wouldn't have been much room for companies like Allen B. Dumont Laboratories to forge ahead and actually over-engineer a product for at least short term high performance. This market is not worried about ease of repair or even replacement.
Personally, I'm glad that at least long ago these market differences were more clearly defined. As fascinated as I may be by the elaborate circuitry of a working early Dumont set, I would rather fix up something like one of these mid 50s Philcos (NOT Predicta) with relative ease and still have what is practically the same caliber of conversation piece to the average person who doesn't remember a time without color, remote control covering every function, and satellite programming
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