We pretty much had an all GE house. The local dealer sold GE & Zenith (in earlier times he sold Admiral, I think also Philco & Motorola, but before my time) my Dad would barter a lot with him. (paint his van in return for a new color console, etc.) The first set I remember was an early 70's (late 60's?) GE color console, tube of course, it was a pretty good set, from what I recall, but we did see the reparman a lot. In about 79 Dad bought Mom a Zenith Allegro console stereo for Christmas. About 81 he bought a new GE 25" console. He wanted a Zenith but the dealer told him the GE was better
It had push button tuning & VIR but Dad didn't spring for remote. Actually, he probably would have never bought the tv except he thought the old one had a fuzzy picture. After we got the new set he realized he needed glasses! We also had an early 60s GE "suitcase" bw portable that my uncle gave us for a second tv. Later another uncle gave me a big GE table model color set that must have been from about 67 or so. It had a sync problem which had to be fixed first. Said it had a new crt but it had cataracts pretty bad. Never a great picture, UHF tuner kept breaking. Later bought a used Portacolor. The tv Dad has now is a '90 GE 20" table set which has been troublefree.