[JCFitz]

System 3s are good too as long as the solder connections are taken care of once in a while.My 1985 Advanced System has a fantastic picture.Though I don't know if the CRTs are as long lived as the old Delta type tube Zeniths with lots more cathode material to burn before the emission is gone.A lot of the System 3s are still going strong though I've seen some with the CRTS getting weak but the people are still watching it.I think Zenith was stiil good with this chassis but this was the last good Zenith made.The quality started going downhill after that.The chassis after this one had less picture quality,the CRTS were shorter lived and more problems.After this year is when they started having flyback failures too.Flybacks in older Zenith sets used to live forever except for some of the later Chromacolor sets when the tripler would go it would take the flyback with it. And they really hit bottom in 93-94 with the worst CRTs ever.Hearing that 1972-73 Zenith mentioned reminded me of one a lady in my town was still using a couple years back.I went to service it as it had no picture.Only needed a filament fuse.The tuner and some of the controls were dirty.After a little cleaning and adjustment I was surprised at the fantastic color that was coming from this tv that had been used for 30 years with the original CRT in it.This summer they had an estate sale at her house.I just went to look around and was curious about the tv.No sign of it or any other tv.I think the Zenith was her only set.I was hoping to get it if it went cheap and around here console tvs are usually lowly regarded and not wanted much especially old non-remote cable ready ones.Looks like a family member got the Zenith.