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Originally Posted by JohnCT
If they bought a Sony around 1973, then the TVs they were renting before that were vacuum tube TVs, which, regardless of who made them, required frequent repair between the natural degradation of vacuum tubes and the tremendous heat they generated which affected every other part in the TV. It sounds like your parents first SS TV was imported, which was my point.
Same here in the colonies. The last "domestic" TVs were from Zenith and RCA. The RCAs were still solid but Zenith had a lot of trouble with their CRTs.
My mom is 98 and spends most of her day in front of an Indiana built RCA rear projection TV (CTC/PTK195 analog chassis) that I gave her. This TV was built in or around 2001 and has never been repaired. I estimate the TV has over 70K hours on it. The CRTs are getting soft now and of course are showing pattern burns because she watches the same news channel most of the day.
I have a Sony 55" XBR in storage for the day the RCA quits (I won't fix it because the tubes are getting weak).
John
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You're confusing your eras in Zenith history.
Zenith stopped building TVs in the USA around 1980, and they had EXCELLENT CRTs in the made in USA era. It wasn't until the 90s when the sets were made in Mexico and Korea that the CRTs went downhill.