Is this Sylvania worthwhile?

[KentTeffeteller]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Why didn't the CRTs in these televisions last very long? If the sets which used this CRT made a great picture, and the tube itself was a dark-face one, I would have thought these tubes would have been made to last. After all, when these TVs were new, they were made here in the US, not offshore like today's TVs and almost everything else are made these days.

I honestly don't know why the dark-glass tubes did not last as long as other types did. Color televisions, after all, were not cheap, most going for $1000 or more (!) when they first came out; most people kept these older TVs as long as they worked, unlike today's flat screens, which are generally thrown out with the trash when they fail and are replaced with another no-name FS TV which will last a short time, then will be trashed and.....here we go again.

I would think the tubes in early color sets would have been made to last at least as long as the rest of the set. What on earth, again, was it about Sylvania CRTs that gave them such a poor reputation for quality? I would not have thought (in fact, I would never have even imagined) a company like Sylvania would use junky CRTs in its televisions, at least the ones from the 1950s until the beginning of the HDTV era.

Sheeeeesh.

GT Matic and SuperSets drove the CRT very hard. Which is why the reduced CRT lifespan. These sets ran harder.