NEW 1964 LINE OF ZENITH TELEVISION SETS! 

Duane Thamm can I buy one

Yes, color televisions, as were black and white before and HD after, upon their early sales years were expensive. Both color and HD sets took about the same time--12 years--before the prices and the public warmed up to them in great numbers.

my dad paid $385 in 1973 ....lots of $$$ $2000 today in 2017

That's what keep the robust Television service sector going. There was a TV repair shop on every corner. In the mid 80s it was destroyed by the likes of Circuit City and cheep Japanese TVs being dumped into the US market then the Chinese destroyed the Japanese electronics market. Now no one repairs anything... we just fill landfills with this junk.

Since Bubby passed away the original film is in his family's possession. Hopefully, they will read your comment and transfer the film in HD--who knows, maybe even 4K! The sound will still remain problematic. My editor punched it up as much as possible, but maybe an experienced sound editor might be able to pull more from it. The nice thing is that the color is great thanks to the original source and the telecine transfer.

There are a few color television series, mostly on film (since commercial color videotape recording didn't start until the last quarter of 1958) from the early 1950s due to farsighted producers who knew they would be worth more in the future than their black-and-white counterparts. While this might have been true initially in the 1960s, time has shown us that a good or great series will be watched like "I Love Lucy" forever even if it was filmed in B&W.

I would like to know how Zenith defined "peak music power." It is not the same as undistorted sine wave output power, and there is no way that a solid state amplifier from the mid 1960s could have been so powerful.

It wasn't RMS power in those days.That was peak power and it was the total of both channels.

It comes out to about "5 to 1" in real power rating.. IOW..a "500 watt peak" amp..is REALLY capable of MAYBE :100 watts TOTAL..(50W/CH)..

see my reply to Evert above for why.

PS: Look at those ugly stands. In those days, having a portable TV on an ugly stand was a way for anti-TV snobs to enjoy TV without admitting that it was really welcome in their homes.

Some of the Zenith guys here can probably fill in the specifics, but in general, each strip was a tuned circuit and whichever one was chosen made contact with the connections needed to put it into the circuit. At the end of each strip was a gear that turned a ferrite slug (or ganged slugs) to fine tune that circuit for the station it represented; this meshed with the fine tuning "ring" when that strip was selected; since each strip had its own fine tuning adjustment, it functioned as a preset, much like the buttons on a car radio (though most radios just have a mechanical or digital "memory" for each button, not a separate tuned circuit). This was functionally equivalent to the later tuners with a row of selectors and slugs for each preset, but because they were on a rotating drum, it didn't need any digital controls to swap them in or out of the circuit.

12:45 I'd never heard of a "UHF strip" before. It seems like an ingenious way of supporting UHF without the cost of a separate tuner. I wonder if the fine tuning knob could tune the whole 14-83 band; in markets with only one or two UHF stations, that was probably good enough, at least until 1965 when a separate UHF tuner became mandatory in the USA.

The UHF strips were pre-set to the desired UHF channel. TV dealers would either install these strips into TVs or customers could have the strips added at a TV repair shop. In that era, the worst case scenario would be that one would need four strips (in markets where all the networks plus National Educational Television were all on UHF).

Bubby told me that they had hired a local television production news crew. For those of alive during those times this was often the sound quality of filmed segments for local news before the advent of more portable video cameras and, later, recorders.