The Very First NTSC Color TV: 1954 RCA Model CT-100 The Merrill - Restoration Part X (Concluded!)

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The final video in the restoration series of the RCA CT-100. I also added the factory RCA line-level video input using a 12AT7 tube for video amplification, and also added an audio input as well as a switch to choose tuner or A/V. Please stay tuned after the video for a list of credits to people who have helped us along the way. It's finally done and in full service.
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@daveobergoenner4828 3 года назад

Truly stunning! This is the best picture I've ever seen from ANY CT-100. Great work!

@larryshaver3568 Год назад

the colors look so natural

@facundobresan1009 10 месяцев назад

What a stable image!!! good colors and no black spots!!!!

@kraig8812 4 года назад

Is that the only vintage television that you installed AV onto or is there other TVs like that that have AV as well?

@derekobidowski3301 4 года назад

Are u and Harley getting things from the R W& B thrift store if they are open in this Pandemic?' as i have to look for another vintage vw as last week it got totaled when a deer ran out infront of me as now trying to upload videos on 12v fans that came out of retired school busses so far my video of the 1980s Bergstrom bus fans got the most hits as i posted mostly is the Baader Brown fans as they are made in USA no Chinapride on those its the Bergstrom, DCM fans that are made in China as the DCM fans are sometimes rebadged as ACC Climate Control, Maradyne Mobile Products, and Red Dot Corp. these Bergstrom bus fans i had for a long time they were made in USA as both have Torin 6 1/2 fan blades, and both have Leece-Neville motors on them as Leece-Neville did invent the starter motor in 1909 was plants in Cleveland Ohio and Gainsville Ga. the Baader Brown fans i got are made in Springfield Ohio Montague Equipment Co Inc. as the fans are OEM to school busses or MRO (Maintence Repair Operation).

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

No, we haven't been venturing out. And oh no, I'm sorry to hear that...

@frenchmarky Год назад

For the first people to own one of these way back when it must've seemed like pure magic.

@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary 3 года назад

Just found out about these RCA's as one of the first Color TV's, having come out in 1954.. Amazing you people that have the tenacity and creativity to dive into such a nightmare of a project and dig out the gold!! Congratulations!! This is pretty awesome!!

@tookeydookey 2 года назад

I've watched all parts of this series, and I must say, you did an excellent job on restoring this tv! Not to mention that the picture and sound look amazing on it! It's always good to see vintage electronics being revived instead of being thrown in the trash. Great job!😁👌

@chetpomeroy1399 3 года назад

One can certainly see that the engineers who designed this receiver intended to have the colors *knock the socks off* of anyone who decided to watch this lovely set! However, in those days, I don't think the designers of this set took into consideration potential safety hazards regarding levels of X-radiation exposure for the service technicians who did field repairs and in-shop servicing.

@dougfisher1813 Год назад

This was built in the time that they had X-ray machines in shoe stores so you could see your feet inside your shoes. Also during this same time period in the 50's, you could buy admission ticket to watch nuclear bombs being tested in the desert.

@chetpomeroy1399 Год назад

@@dougfisher1813 Yes, I believe they called them "shoe-fitting fluoroscopes." Probably wouldn't have used one knowing what I know now. It would have been *really cool* to watch a nuclear test in the desert, as the plume way high up in the air made such a *beautiful* glow!

@GameChanger597 Год назад

Wow thank you for sharing something fascinating this 80's kid didn't know!?! 😯

@erin19030 9 месяцев назад

X-ray concerns were not considered a problem in 1954. Precautions first came along with the Shunt regulator a GE 6BK4 that had a lead shield in their first Color TV Sets circa 1961.

@erin19030 9 месяцев назад

I recall 32 tubes in this set. I never worked on one. By the time I got into color TV the chassis was the CTC-11 model.when I left the company, RCA the CTC-62 was the latest XL-100. During my TV fixit days I worked on 8 to 10 color Tvs a day for 10 years. Today I know nothing about the new TV sets. I went into teaching Color TV repair to RCA service techs, then I took a position at Sarnoff Labs as a research tech until I retired and taught in the Physics Dept. At Swarthmore College.

@Oldbmwr100rs 4 года назад

Completely amazing, great work! You saved a piece of history, one which saw the broadcast world change, slowly, but still change. A very significant set there! Just knowing that TV cost probably close to what someone would have paid for a nice used car or other important thing. Creating the factory composite modification is just icing on the cake. That you were able to find NOS parts is that much cooler. Thanks for showing this restoration, and for saving a small piece of history!

@spatsbear 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you!

@mikemigliorino130 4 года назад

Beautiful Television! I restore and collect vintage vacuum cleaners! Some of my favorites are Hoover, Kirby and Electrolux! Great job guys!!

@kevingleason1051 Год назад

Westinghouse was first to market an NTSC color receiver in late December 1953. The CT-100 was offered for sale in March 1954.

@LakeNipissing 4 года назад

Congrats!! You should share this restore with Paul Carlson of "Mr. Carlson's Lab"... You did amazing work here !!

@Link-zt1cs 3 года назад

Rewatching this video after a few months.. legend, we need more people like you

@KC4RAE 4 года назад

Ah, what an adventure! Well worth the wait, for sure. I know I'm not the only one that is glad to see the final product. You went way beyond what some would do by making it 'like-new' with such attention to detail. You both have completed that chapter with a bang.

@TheRealMrBeercan 2 месяца назад

When I was a kid I remember old color TVs had a problem staying in the right colors. People's faces would slowly go from flesh tones to green. You had to constantly adjust the colors, or live with people turning green. Sometime around 1970 color TVs had automatic fine tuning and the color of people's faces stayed the same throughout the whole show.

@Brian-yt8fu Год назад

I read the book David Snaroff president of RCA. He eas very much involved with the technology and when it came to technical questions about the RCA color system he was very knowledgeable. He deserves credit for bringing color tv into our homes.

@Trance88 4 года назад

What a beaut! Its unfortunate I probably won't be stopping by to see you guys this year. Hopefully next year I'll be able to come by and see you guys and the CT100 fully restored.

@ArtieArchives 2 года назад

I like that there's a fursuit in the thumbnail :3 41:29 Wait, is that your fursuit?

@spatsbear 2 года назад

Sure is :3

@ArtieArchives 2 года назад

@@spatsbear I love it

@hughkanneetmi9121 Год назад

I'm assuming that you're a HOMOSEXUAL couple, since I thought you said you paid $3,000 for that TV, not knowing if it even worked. My point being if you were married to a woman, she would have divorced you for that. 😜

@kfl611 9 месяцев назад

For an original first commercially available tv, I think the color looks great !

@haweater1555 27 дней назад

Restoration that would make shango066 jealous.

@S955US84 4 года назад

The picture you achieved on your CT100 restoration looks way better than I remember on an original CT100 set from 1955 that I saw as a little kid. A neighbor was an exec at the RCA plant in Camden NJ and he had one on loan. Maybe it was an early R&D prototype because I believe these sets were mass produced in Bloomington, Indiana. Although I was thrilled to see any color image on a TV, even as a kid I could see it wasn't very good on a live broadcast of a TV game show. Colors did not at match at all from one camera to another and the quality of the color was nothing like what I had already seen in movie theaters. Yours looks great - better than the one at the early TV museum in Hilliard Ohio. In 1957, another childhood friend's parents bought a 21 inch RCA color set and it looked much better than the 15" CT100 but still not as good as yours. Beautiful work and admirable persistence.

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

You are very kind, thank you. My father told Spats and I the story of his first experience with color TV, it was in Conneautville PA. His neighbor bought a CT-100 the moment they went on sale, and then of course traded it in when RCA offered. My father said he and his friends would stand on the guy's porch and look at it through the front window. I can tell you in my 44 years on this planet, I've seen amazing displays of tenacity, love, and care in the restoration of many items... and Spats probably topped them all. The people we talked to, those who we credited in the video for their help.. it's been more than just a TV restoration... it's been a journey, and the people we have met along the way have made it worth it a hundred fold. Everyone from a six year-old who has never seen ANY type of CRT, to a 95 year-old who remembers seeing his very first TV of any kind, there have been many people interested, and we have been fortunate to have connected with them all through this one little ole TV. Thanks again.

@S955US84 4 года назад

@@HarleyBadger - Do you know the reason(s) that RCA essentially recalled the CT-100s? That is not a rhetorical question because I don't have any answers - just guesses.

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

@@S955US84 Sort of "simple economics" in a way. People rushed to buy these initially, and then just kind of stopped. There was little color programming at the time, and a big-ass black and white TV was cheaper than this small-screen, and people sort of lost interest because of the lack of color programming. RCA was insistent upon color... quickly lowered the price by more than half, almost nobody bought them, RCA soon finished the much-larger 21" color CRT, so they offered to take the CT-100s back and give the customers the 21 at no charge.

@S955US84 4 года назад

@@HarleyBadger "...as late as 1964 only 3.1 percent of television households in the U.S. had a color set." WIKIPEDIA

@trevordance5181 6 месяцев назад

Re. .....US84. I'm from the UK and I read that the BBC experimented with NTSC colour tv in the mid to late 1950's but decided to wait for a better system to come along for the reasons you described, poor inconsistent colours, often drifting and not very true to life especially in less than perfect reception conditions.

@mspysu79 4 года назад

Awesome to see it all together and working so wonderfully. The composite input is really a nice mod. Ah Animalympics the thing that most Americans would have seen on NBC, if the 1980 Olympics. had happened for us. If you want to show off the convergence of the set, you can always play Lisberger's 1982 project Tron on the set:)

@Mahorokun 11 месяцев назад

Удивительно хорошее изображение у телевизора,для тех лет А что такое стоит справа от телевизора на 31-58 ?

@zillsburyy1 14 дней назад

i think that cartoon fried my brain. im suing!

@Kennephone 7 месяцев назад

You have a very rare specimen, only about a hundred of these still exist, and even fewer are in anything resembling working condition.

@garyfrancis6193 Год назад

I wonder what it was like to have a colour TV in 1954?

@pintmarten2403 4 года назад

Just watched Animalympics on my ITT Trimline CP3204 or 2342 that I found in the loft of a warehouse, CRT's are so much better for colour/strobe effects. It says "West Germany" on the tube, It's from at least 1980, Maybe even earlier.

@Maxxarcade 4 года назад

You did an amazing job on this, even for such a big project with all those hurdles! BTW, at 8:35 did you notice the spelling error on the vertical transformer? It made me do a double take :-)

@cgeorge6786 2 года назад

At least he didn't need a new horiontal transformer.

@davepike6170 4 года назад

Great restoration job! Such beautiful color and performance!

@spatsbear 4 года назад

Thank you very much!

@IAmNotAFunguy 4 года назад

Can't wait to see more old TVs while we're all stuck at home.

@fernandopayangutierrez9332 Год назад

La vi un libro y siempre quise encontrar un video porque se veía la pantalla chica y aparecía un perro pero se veía rojo y azul , también quiero investigar que marca y modelo fue la primera en fabricar un televicion a color

@CoopyKat 7 месяцев назад

My parents had a B&W 1958 TV that ran through the 90s with a VERY clear picture, so obviously, even a color TV from 1954 must have looked awesome to the few who could afford it back then. You put in so much work on this television and did a great job. I'm so glad I'm able to see a 1954 color TV the way it looked back then, or at least very very close to it!

@vitajazz Год назад

One of the few consumer sets ever made that used full bandwidth IQ colour demodulation and true NTSC red phosphors, that's why the colour is so rich and accurate.

@vcv6560 Год назад

The blue cable, at 4 min. that looks like the delay line? Never seen the internals of a CTC2 before. What a slug of iron is that power transformer. Alone it must be 30% of the chassis weight.

@spatsbear Год назад

Correct. That is the delay line.

@dv_vid Год назад

Did you replace the flux capacitor?

@411Soulman1 Год назад

LOL

@trainluvr Год назад

Just found your channel. I noticed that there are so many vintage appliance channels, but so far I have only seen one vintage room air conditioner channel. You should have at least one to round out your collection.

@leostechnikkanal 4 года назад

This is really amazing! What amazes me the most is that you did this all by yourself! I fail at replacing belts;-) The picture also is amazing, especially since the set is over 60 years old!

@spatsbear 4 года назад

Thank you very much!

@babyboomertwerkteam5662 Год назад

Randomly popped in my recs. Amazing work! And cute costume haha

@rongendron8705 Год назад

I'm 77 & was 8 in 1954! Since my family only had a b/w, t.v. from 1950, we couldn't even think of buying a color set, since there were practically no color shows on then! I do remember seeing an advertisement for an RCA 'color' t.v. in '54 or '55, showing one of the few 'color' shows on, i.e. "Howdy Doody", but who wanted to spend $600, to see it?

@S955US84 6 месяцев назад

The RCA CT100 cost $1000 in 1954 when the average annual family income in the USA was $4200. In 2024 dollars, it would be over $11,000.

@Melissa0774 Год назад

Did they broadcast anything in color in the mid 50's?

@bessied.5694 Год назад

Yes, but very little. The sets were too expensive for most people. .

@dalehammond1749 3 месяца назад

I was born in 1948 and the first color TV I saw was in 1962. I was working as stock boy at a W.T. Grants store. I wanted to buy one on time from the store but the store manager wisely turned me down. As I recall the cheapest TV was $475 and I was making $1.25 an hour.

@hyzercreek Год назад

Beautiful. Great way to force people to watch NBC; CBS and ABC had no color programs until the mid-60s.

@jaimeantoniolopezbellido5668 Месяц назад

Un fracaso en ventas como todos los primeros televisores en color. Un tubo como 15GP22 que tenia fugas al aire, un precio elevado y una escasa programación en color hizo que la mayoría no se vendiesen. Por lo menos hubo la honestidad de canjearlo por un CT-21-55 bien por RCA. Otro detalle fue de los primeros en incorporar el UHF.Tuvo suerte el restaurador en conseguir un tubo útil, son menos que los televisores existentes.

@fernandopayangutierrez9332 Год назад

Me da mucho gusto la experiencia que tienes y el valor de grabar estos tesoros y el proceso para reparar y darles manteniemito , no he encontrado un vídeo en.español , parecido

@obeseperson Год назад

No fucking way the furry wit the old tv thats badass

@vinalboy 4 года назад

If you guys subscribed to the New York Times you can find an article from April 15, 1953 with the headline: R. C. A. Color TV Hailed in Test; 'Astounds" Head of House Group". Go to: times machine.nytimes.com

@richardhumphreys8662 8 месяцев назад

I've found an old advert for this set from a company called Barker Bros., and it sold for around $1,000 in 1954 which is the equivalent of about $11,000 today!

@Tampo-tiger 7 месяцев назад

Ref. missing knobs and switches, would it be possible to make a silicone mould (just cheap stuff in a tube) of any repeat knobs you require, then fill with epoxy resin, which is far cheaper per pint from marine supplies places? A lick of paint to finish, and although it won't be perfect it would be pretty fair.

@davidweston9115 11 месяцев назад

I can just imagine selecting channel 4 at 11.30pm to get Johnny Carson broadcast straight from the Empire State Building to my set wirelessly and without monthly cost !! He was on from 1962 to 1992, beginning from when this set was only 3 years past it's 1959 tube replacement. This set was probably set aside before Johnny ever wore a plaid suit or had white hair.

@patrickgrogan4382 4 года назад

Great job Spats! It’s sweet to see it fully working again after all these years! Do you have any plans on displaying this upstairs?

@spatsbear 4 года назад

We are finishing the basement so the room it is in will be the TV/VCR/Stereo/Fan displays. The CT-100 will be in that room proudly displayed there.

@VintageTech1 4 года назад

Wowzers congratulations on a museum worthy restoration.

@spatsbear 4 года назад

Many thanks!

@jedw 4 года назад

Sorry I'm going to ask a dumb question - haha! I am suprised with how flat the screen is, I do not know much about electronics but I *thought* I underestood CRTs enough to know why they aren't flat. Maybe not. I assume there is a simple explanation?

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

Yep! The reason is this.. since this is such an early color picture tube, the shadow mask is flat, and suspended inside the bell of the tube. The glass face is still rounded, but it's behind flat safety glass.

@jedw 4 года назад

@@HarleyBadger Thankyou for your reply. Yeah though I wonder how it focusses on a flat plane? The convergence looks a little off but that might be unrelated.

@spatsbear 4 года назад

The convergence is fine... our cameras were very finicky about recording video, but it looks fine in person. The convergence is electrostatic and has much more complexity to it than a regular magnetic convergence adjustments.

@BrokebackBob Год назад

I believe all the CTC-100 chassis were made at the RCA factory in Bloomington, IN. Was yours?

@animalactivist7820 Месяц назад

Certainly a lot of work there. Great job in restoration! Thanks for sharing this.

@rogertyler3237 Год назад

It's Funny You Don't Get A CopyWrite Strike For Playing That Video

@hardlyworgen71 Год назад

Another fine choice from modern media would be Vault-Tec propaganda from the Fallout games.

@Pablo-he7gm Год назад

Amazing restoration work. Just a comment. Your greens don´t look right. Maybe increasing the green screen a bit higher. Or maybe the issue is in the color demod circuit. Also I noticed that color bars look really different when changing channels, so fine tuning may have something to do with it.

@zillsburyy1 14 дней назад

28:48

@Lucius1958 2 года назад

Great vintage electronics! (I'm more into old talking machines, myself; but this is amazing) And, btw, Animalympics FTW! 7@=e

@johngjesdahl-xx2gb 8 месяцев назад

Show the performance of set's picture with ZERO room light.

@bessied.5694 Год назад

I would tell you to run some old video of an early color program, but there was next to no color programming available when this set was manufactured.

@saved1 Год назад

This TV was marketed the same year Elvis cut his first record in Sam Phillips Studio in Memphis.

@AlanCanon2222 Год назад

Funny showing a movie from 1985 depicting 1955 on a TV set from 1954.

@411Soulman1 Год назад

We had a 1961 RCA Vic that did not put out as high a quality color picture as your '54 model does!

@pochosousa4653 2 года назад

Excelente trabajo ¡¡¡¡¡....un televisor que tendría en mi casa y lo usaría bastante seguido.

@kraig8812 4 года назад

Good job Spats and Harley!

@damusicianstrikesback5337 4 года назад

Awesome work!

@KeyboardBuster Год назад

Fire up a Super Nintendo and plug her in!

@morrismckinnon6047 Год назад

lol, wtf was that at the end? I thought your voice was in sync with a cartoon on the TV! Jesus, I was not expecting that! 🤣

@MiguelRodriguez-nt5eq Год назад

I would install a couple of computer fans in the mesh aluminum just for cooling exhausting the heat out..

@packardexelence Год назад

I GOTTA ASK; JUST IN REPLACEMENT PARTS ALONE; HOW MUCH?????

@MiguelRodriguez-nt5eq Год назад

Awesome television, would love to play an Atari 2600 on it..😆

@Lighting_Desk Год назад

A fascinating piece of history. And such a beautiful collection.

@davidball1341 4 года назад

Fantastic work! I really enjoyed seeing this project come together. So honored to have gotten a shout out in the credits. I wish I had done more. I think I only offered a couple of suggestions on cabinet part fabrications. This is truly a historical document of the CT-100 and will hopefully inspire others to resurrect them should more of them surface. Great job!

@spatsbear 4 года назад

Those suggestions helped us fix it though! And thank you!

@davidball1341 4 года назад

@@spatsbear awesome! So happy they helped!

@hasturm1232 Год назад

Solo le scatole originali dei ricambi di quei vecchi componenti sono un cimelio!!! Per non parlare di tutto il resto. Quello che poi stupisce è quanto buona fosse la qualità dell'immagine se si pensa al periodo in cui uscirono, in pratica gli schermi a fosfori verdi dei pc anni 80 erano una fregatura 😂😂😂!

@fernandopayangutierrez9332 Год назад

La pantalla está muy reducida yo creo cuando saquen más generaciones hagan más grande la pantalla y se vendan más y no toda la gente podía una tras otra

@envitech02 Год назад

Wow this unit in good working condition can fetch a pretty penny in an auction.

@isaac24 4 года назад

Wow. Good job to everyone that helped!

@EstefaneAo.Maldonato 3 месяца назад

Hello good night Love TV Brazil

@betacamsx 2 месяца назад

great job,thanks for sharing.

@raiinfluence2239 Год назад

is it still there in usa analog tv transmiters??for this old tv???

@JFD62780 4 года назад

...Not merely restored. But also MODERNIZED! (Albeit up to 1980s technology.) Imagine if some dudes were crazy enough to put TWO speakers in that grill (and miraculously make them work properly). THAT'S how high-fidelity that one speaker is! XD

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

Yeah I mean really, I can sit here and listen to this YT video with ten grand worth of HiFi, or walk into the next room and switch on the set... and I can tell you for certain, the set sounds even better in person than recreated through RU-vid.

@steveomusicman6645 4 года назад

beautiful job! Realy enjoyed this video.

@JoshuaAndMom 4 года назад

That is one good TV set. These old TVs are far much better than today's smart TVs. They are much louder. I have LED Smart TV's, and the sound on the modern TVs are not as loud as the old ones. We have one TV in the room which we had to have a soundbar attached to it, to make it louder, well we had a soundbar until my stepdad passed in 2017. I just want to go back to the vintage TV's and VCRs. Plus the smart TVs rely on Wi-Fi, which we have like 10 or 20 devices connected to Wi-Fi, and thats when my internet became slow and sluggish since we only have one router in one of the bedrooms. Again, excellent work Spats.

@ohger1 8 месяцев назад

To be fair, your smart tv is very shallow front to back because of the flat panel where the old CRT TVs had depth to spare. You need excursion to get good "tone", and tiny flat speakers that fit in modern TVs just don't move that much air.

@hvrtguys Год назад

First color tv I ever saw was in 1967.

@davidweston9115 11 месяцев назад

If someone didn't have the expertise to do this, would it be possible to purchase a set like this all restored? I am guessing $10k but I could be way off. (I know it's not like Amazon, I know they are rare and you wouldn't find one immediately and may have to wait for someone to die first so you can get it from their wife/heirs...)

@ohger1 8 месяцев назад

There weren't all that many made and most were scrapped in the 1960s.

@kraig8812 4 года назад

How's the hunt going for finding a new tube for the 1978 RCA XL-100 TV?

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

I will have to ask Spats because honestly I have no idea which TV you're referring to lol

@makoado6010 3 месяца назад

NTSC: Never The Same Color

@jockoharpo2622 Год назад

If you don'nt want the floor damaged underneath....I woould keep a piece of plexiglass under it in case something decided to erupt.

@spatsbear Год назад

What are you talking about?

@matthewbestdfghy 4 года назад

You should weigh all of the total weight of all the replacement parts Back to the Future yes.

@HarleyBadger 4 года назад

OK that is a GREAT idea! We are actually gonna do this! Watch for an upcoming vid.

@JakeXXXJeff 3 года назад

This is soooo beautiful! Good job!

@EMRT-b90 Год назад

Kaput Restauriert.😡😡😡😡😡 Nostalgie Vernichtet.

@EmersonCollie 4 года назад

Nice, I love this!

@annelisepereira5721 Год назад

HELLO BRAZIL BEAUTIFUL TV

@josehugobarrerasanchez8350 3 месяца назад

Excelente adaptación, y si que vale la pena ponerle entradas de AUDIO y VIDEO por que estas señores si son ABUELAS televisiones y de muy buena cálida y pesadotas siiiiiii 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😁😃👍👍