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Originally Posted by Steve D.
Those are a trio of RCA Victor 21-CT-55 consumer color sets with a 21AXP22 picture tube.
I worked at NBC Burbank in the 60's off & on. The RCA 21" professional monitors were in use in the control rooms. The studios had something like CTC-10 table model sets hanging above the audience section in some studios.
-Steve D.
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Steve,
I know we've talked about this before but was I astounded in 1974 or so when I used to bluff my way into NBC Color City, Burbank and to my surprise saw really old (even then) 21" roundies used as monitors, etc. I mean, heck, not even rectangle tubes? Round? Wow. There was a guy in master control (you know, the room with the glass window so you could look through in the long hallway by the news entrance?) and this guy was adjusting one of the two 21" sets right there. I remember (burned into my brain) that one of the sets was marked "program" and one was marked "transmitter". The transmitter picture (after the signal came back down the mountain) was somewhat degraded when compared to the first picture, but both looked, um, antique compared to any modern TV set picture of that year. I couldn't believe they were making picture judgements and adjustments using those old sets as gospel. Heh, just floored me.
I mean, I love the picture on my old roundies but I wouldn't use them in professional video work.
That would be like in my line of work mastering music for CD's while listening critically to playback on an old JBL horn or something. It sure wouldn't tell me the truth about what was happening.