The best solid state color TVs ever made

[Electronic M]

I'd count Zenith CCIIs both horizontal and vertical chassis high on the list. The delta gun tubes were nearly immortal, the sets were serviceable and had failry minimal wharts...Heck many are still going today without having had the back off ever.

Also the only sets I know of that have been left on during house fires and remained working when the firefighters had the fire out and wiped the soot off the screen to notice, survived being flipped on their face in earthquakes, and other abuse that ought to kill a TV.

They did have issues with safety, and VRT caps, tripplers occasionally, intermittent connections and other small issues, but besides the first 3 parts they'd usually keep running with minor degradation of performance...often for more than 30 years.

Modular Motorola and RCA were close, but switch mode power supplies and SCR sweep respectively weren't fun for techs that were transitioning from tube to SS.