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Old 03-24-2014, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut View Post
Admiral did get into production. At one point, Motorola made a deal to buy Admiral CRTs for some TVs. I remember the engineers at Motorola grumbling because they felt the Admiral tubes would fail in warranty and cost more in total than they were worth.
They were dogs, all right. Admiral was including a three year warrantee on the CRT's in their sets. I was disappointed to see EIA 101 CRT's in Motorola sets. They were the lower end models, plain cabinets and metal table models.
I still think, the biggest disappointment in CRT quality was the Zenith's of the late 80's to mid-90's.
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