Another oddball set

[Captain Video]

It may have been a technical advance, but, talking about just the style of this sets, I particularly don't like them. I really love the older ones, from the 1950's, I think they are more elegant, more glamourous.

[Old1625]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

It may have been a technical advance, but, talking about just the style of this sets, I particularly don't like them. I really love the older ones, from the 1950's, I think they are more elegant, more glamourous.

Waddaya think of the old "halo lite" sets of the day....

[Captain Video]

I really don't have much an opinion about them. I never saw one of them in person, so it's hard for me to say. Judging just by pictures of Halolight sets, I would say that they are a odd device... I believe that their advertising, saying that the Halolight feature was "better for viewing confort" had no foundation are all on real science, am I right?

[Old1625]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

I really don't have much an opinion about them. I never saw one of them in person, so it's hard for me to say. Judging just by pictures of Halolight sets, I would say that they are a odd device... I believe that their advertising, saying that the Halolight feature was "better for viewing confort" had no foundation are all on real science, am I right?

There was a school of thought that viewing television where there was no other source of light in the room led to eye fatigue. A small lamp on top of the set was a popular expedient. The stroboscopic flickering nature of the CRT type set (note how wagon wheels on westerns sometimes appear to be turning backward...) may have had to do with such fatigue, and a source of non-strobing light added supposedly minimized this effect.