Motorola color-TV

[David Roper]

Color by Eastmon that is

So pleasing to the eye!

[Tony V]

LOL! I didnt know they made those filters that big.
-Tony

[leadlike]

Wow! This could be the record for keeping one of those stupid filters on the set! I thought most folks sent those things to the trash after trying to watch a few minutes of Bonanza in living Eastmon Color.

[wa2ise]

That's up there with that stupid gismo I used to see advertised in "TV Guide" back in the 70's that had 300 ohm twin lead comming out of it, and plugged into the power outlet. A little square box with a cylindar sticking up. Supposidly used your house's wiring as a TV antenna. AFAIK, no real connection between the twin lead and the powerline, not even a small high voltage ceramic cap...

[kx250rider]

You actually got me going for a second, 'til I opened the full-size pic. I first thought it was the console version of the Motorola 21" color set from '55!

Charles

[jeyurkon]

My parents had one on their set for about 30 seconds.

John

[Dan Starnes]

Oh man, that brings back memories,, thanks for posting.
Dan

[Old1625]

The art of gimmickry is in itself an institution. Go back through magazines and look through the ads. At a nickel per by count alone in findings one could become rich. Fortunes must have been made from this stuff.

The products that came out to "help" your car burn less oil, and less gasoline, form a list that would rival the thickest Webster's volumes, I'm sure.

The secret is that a lot of these gimmicks were cheap enough that the typical buyer--with only a tiny percent in exception--was not inclined to be bothered trying to get a refund when the product did not deliver as claimed.

Caveat emptor turned to buyer emptier.

It's an interesting lesson--in more ways than one--IMHO.

It is a grim reminder that the primary reason to manufacture saleable product is to make money. That the buyer is satisfied, and finds pleasure and use in such product, is always a mere by-product. And the manufacturer does what they can through actual delivery, or through advertising, to maintain the illusion that the order of priority is otherwise....Anyone that believes otherwise could be called a fool....or just mere John Q. Public. This has worked for years.

P.T. Barnum lives on in immortality.

Just the way it is--and always has been....

Otherwise...how could eBay have ever survived beyond its infancy....?

[nasadowsk]

Anyone remember those old ads for 'dish' antennas that were just really rabbit ers that looked like a little satellite dish?

"You pay no cable fees because YOU'RE NOT GETTING CABLE!"

Amazingly, people bought them, too...

[David Roper]

Uh-oh, somebody tipped him off that he has a rare and valuable piece! Somehow I think the likelihood of making a sale has gone down by a lesser factor than his opening bid has gone up.

[Old1625]

Ah well, may Eastmon go down in the anals of history for coming up with such an alimentary form of color television picture production.

Funny thing is that an offspring of Eastman had purchased a place here near where I live, and did equally corny things--such as to make a stone-bordered pond in their front yard, in a place where no body of water in nature should be... I've driven by it many times, and my head-shaking muscles have had plenty a workout watching this all happen...

I dunno...I guess I'm happier being poor....

[Geoff Bourquin]

I need to save that picture....I've told people about those, and nobody over about 40 years old believes me

[Old1625]

Originally Posted by Geoff Bourquin

I need to save that picture....I've told people about those, and nobody over about 40 years old believes me

Yes, you do. But dontcha mean under....?

[wa2ise]

back when I was about 10, in 1963, I asked my mom about this color conversion device. She told me it was a POS, always blue on top, always green at the bottom, and always brown in the middle, and it would not make sense on every scene on TV. I could see then that it was a stupid product...

Heard about some early video arcade games where they used colored plastic sheet as filters on a B&W CRT tube face to make it look like color. Of course your only choice was just varying amounts of some fixed color at some specific pixel on the tube.

[Old1625]

I remember a totally obnoxious commercial that reminded me how poor our household was. It was a teasy commercial that ran in the '60s that was like "nanny-nanny-goo-goo--stick your head in doo-doo" that went "A color TV, a color TV, an RCA Victor Color TV!--WOW!"

Pooh!