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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109
Would an RCA Lyceum or Zenith Chromacolor-II qualify? Dominant school monitors in my day, we had a good number of these on the big rolling carts with either the Sony VP-2000 U-matic or Panasonic NV-3120 EIAJ open reel and many survived into the 90's running top loading VHS decks. They were bona-fide monitors with the SO-239 and that 8-pin jack for the video inputs on the rear... They always looked like crap in class. Can't say I've ever seen a real "broadcast" monitor from the 70's despite my efforts. I was involved with Studio North during the mid-80s and did come across a few 19" Zenith System-3 monitors that were used for the talent but everything else was Sony PVM and Panasonic WV series going back to the late 70's. Component video didn't really come around until the early betacam days, I can't recall anything prior to this having anything with component video other than the 3-tube camera.
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Those "educational" models would not qualify as broadcast monitors. Broadcast monitors would have more stable sweep/high voltage, precise and stable black level; calibrated color demodulation; and special features like pulse-cross display to view the vertical and horizontal sync/blanking. On the other hand, a broadcast monitor might be more finicky about the sync stability of the incoming signal.