Is there a such thing as a reliable tube color TV?

[DaveWM]

zenith sets are prob the most reliable IMHO. they often work with no restoration needed what so ever. I have several both roundies and rectangles that are very reliable. They also have CRTs that have bonded screens that while may turn a light green around the edge, are still watchable without removing the lens.

oh one more thing, if you really want to use it a lot, putting a fan in it to help keep cool may help with long term relialblity. I added a fan just for this reason to my CTC-5.

[6GH8cowboy]

In my days in the biz, Zeniths seemed to be fairly reliable but the pix didn't always offer a good color rendition of facial tones. RCA's could do very well but I think RCA was making up for lost time and money to recoup for the cost of color development that ran soooo over what was expected. Quality in production could have been better. Dumonts and Admirals had spectacular color but were less tollerant of differences in cameras and stations back then.

Today we fix, tweak, craft, rewire, scrounge, and sometimes talk to sets that were never reasonably expected to last 50 plus years.

We are Jug Heads! It's what we do.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by 6GH8cowboy

In my days in the biz, Zeniths seemed to be fairly reliable but the pix didn't always offer a good color rendition of facial tones. RCA's could do very well but I think RCA was making up for lost time and money to recoup for the cost of color development that ran soooo over what was expected. Quality in production could have been better. Dumonts and Admirals had spectacular color but were less tollerant of differences in cameras and stations back then.

Today we fix, tweak, craft, rewire, scrounge, and sometimes talk to sets that were never reasonably expected to last 50 plus years.

We are Jug Heads! It's what we do.

Incidentally, having attempted to watch both a CTC-25 and a CTC-36 on a regular basis, I now understand your username.

I might change MINE to 5GH8cowboy