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Originally Posted by dieseljeep
Those cabinets were too ornate and were poor sellers.
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Too ornate? The only decoration I saw on the cabinet of the TV we're discussing is a large thing below the picture tube that looks like a door knocker. If there is anything more ornate on that cabinet, I must have missed it. This set, being either a 1st-generation WID Motorola TV or a Japanese knockoff (I also did not realize, until I read the posts here, that Motorola had been sold to Matsushita, before or after the Quasar models came out), must have been very expensive when new.
$861, the price quoted by VK member Dreamsbeard, was not unheard of for a new console color TV (especially a 6- to-7-foot long 3-way entertainment center) in the mid-1970s, although the same set as the one he has may have been priced somewhat lower in the United States. The major TV networks, except NBC, were not telecasting full color at this time (and wouldn't be for several more years), so color TV in the mid-1970s was considered a luxury item; the sets of that time were likely showing mostly black and white programming until at least the eighties. Remember the networks' announcements before a color program was broadcast? NBC: The following program is brought to you in LIVING COLOR on NBC, with the peacock showing its feathers; ABC: This is an ABC COLOR presentation, with the circular animated ABC logo; CBS: CBS presents this program in COLOR, with the letters CBS appearing, one after another, followed by the "eye" logo.
BTW, what on earth did NBC mean by the phrase "living color"?
