spanish Zenith System 3

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In the United States almost no sets had brightness/contrast settings adjustable by remote, most remotes were channel and volume only. With higher end remotes you would have tint and color buttons, but by the early 70's makers were dropping them from the lines as the new Solid State sets did not need those controls adjusted very often....Those controls were absent from remotes until the mid 80's when makers did away with control pots, put those settings in a computer menu, and gave remotes menu buttons to control it.

Those sets had cheap particle board cabinets and generic looking plastic backs in the US too. The fact that they put actual veneer over the particle board (at least in the US model) was a vast step up from other makers that only offered plastic cabinets with faux wood grain paint/stickers.

The 70's wrung a LOT of quality out of American TV cabinetry*. I have late 60's zenith consoles that are all wood, a 1971 where the sides and top are real but the front is plastic, a 1973 where only the top is wood, and a 1978 where the whole thing is particle board with plastic decals that look like wood.

*The console market was shrinking rapidly, and the Japanese sets were dumping table sets at a loss to conquer the market/drive us out of business, so cabinets got cheap fast.