Here is a 1970 Zenith model A6519P, which uses the hybrid type 12A12C52 chassis. This model has the optional space command 600 Remote control! WATCH THIS VIDEO IN STEREO HD, copy and past: &fmt=18 at the end of the url.
Amazing condition! Thank you for posting! I believe this model was our very first color set in 1970. A few years later, we discovered we could change the channels randomly by jingling the change in our pockets! Drove our dad crazy. Memories. :)
Those were a joy to work on, put the set on its side, pull out the bottom plate and you could access all the components. Zenith televisions really were the best back then.
I got it from a friend who saved it at the last minutes of an estate sale, otherwise it would have been junked. There are a good number of collectors that like sets like this, this set can fetch $175+ to the right person.
We got our first color tv in 1968 when I was 10 years old. It was a 25" RCA console without remote. We had been watching a 13 inch black and white. Man.It was like beig at the theater. We got to see the "Wonderful World of Disney" in color!
The beauty of a set like this is that they fit in very nicely with any living room that has nice solid wood furniture. Put a small cloth on the top of it and you can use it as a table for putting your family pictures on.
20 years later they came up with a "light sentry" which corrected the overdriven crt issue by adjusting the brightness automatically so the contrast didn't require much if any adjustment. i still have that tv
The weather guy mentioned "no Skylab passes" for some time, I can remember going outside and watching the Skylab space station pass overhead very well. It was a very big deal at the time and it was common for weather guys to announce when the passes would be so you could go out and watch for it!
From back when the neighbors would show up out of nowhere and ask if their kids could watch cartoons with your kids and burgers were served and some soda, them Pepsi cans that looked like a hand grenade, and everyone would get along just fine...
I remember as a kid in the 80s I used to watch Saturday cartoons.sometimes we had to give it a few palm hits to the tv at the top so it would snap out of the black out trance.😄
This is a very nice set, boy, if they still made them like this then China would be out of business- they just don't stop working! If they do they are easily repairable (as opposed to trying to fix a printed circuit board in a flat screen). Great demonstration video.
anyway, this set reminds me of my grandmothers set, an RCA color non remote set. She had it till she passed in 1996. the color went all purple but it still worked, I sold it with the house. I wanted to convert it into a digital set but no money at the time. I grew up watching these type of TV's back in the 1970's when this was top of the line. This being a remote set probably means it originally cost a bloody fortune. Such nostalgia.
@nakayle LOL.....i remember tubes getting so hot in a set that it heated the room....and also gave off this wonderful aroma of burning electronics and burning wood cabinet (which was normal). That heavenly pre 1980s TV smell
these sets ROCK....as a small boy,we couldnt afford a color set. when i got my first jobs,in the early 80,s,i sought out those tv,s we didnt have. my FAVE was this set,or one very close-it had space command,and the other one,also much like this but with the ZENITH ZOOM !
OMG.. Grew up in the Chicago 'burbs with a similar Zenith Console with a "Command Control" remote. Will always remember how the jingle (sound) of house keys or the tags on the dog's collar would sometimes change the channel on us.
This is a nice one. I see it was still being made with Tubes I think that time must have been about the end of Tube Models.. We had a 1957 floor model Magnavox B&W TV, That had Tubes. We didn't have Color till 1975. Got an FM Radio in 1972 and that was a real big deal.
Very clean looking set inside. I had a 1969 Zenith with the space command. It had more tubes because only the IF strip was transistorized. Before that had a 1964 RCA 21" round-CRT with a CTC-15 chassis- all tubes except LV rect. Think this was the last year of the round-CRTs. It also had the 6BK4 HV regulator tube that was later banned for putting out x-rays. In my mom' attic is a 1949 10" round-CRT Philco with a bad flyback-xmfr- no longer available so can't be repaired.
2:54 One thing I really miss from that era were the holders or compartments that they used to provide for all the accessories like remote controls, spindles, and 45 adapters. Without places to put all that stuff, it inevitably gets lost when the set goes unused for a while, and usually isn't found until the set has changed hands. I think the end of that started with late 1960s stereos, which were trying, for better or worse, to seem as much like higher-end components (with their piecemeal approach to convenience) as possible, then spread to everything else. Now, nearly everything has a remote control and almost none have any place to store it.
You turned off just in the moment when he'd gonna say Chicago's news. 😋 Watching 1970 television in November 2022, here in Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.
As always, a top notch presentation! I've seen the WLS-TV video here on RU-vid, but I'm curious how you're displaying it on the TV directly from the laptop. I'd like to do the same with some of the vintage sets I have.
DOOOOD!!! Driving a '70s Zenith with a LAPTOP!!! You rawk the KNOWN GALAXY!!! 8^D Remember the commercials when Zenith's System III came out? The solid state panels floating out of the service drawer like something from Star Trek? Man, I was like, "we live in the FUUUUUTURE!!!" x^D
I had a Zenith console of similar vintage (had the same "$ervice $aver Chassis" logo and the same "ad" for Zenith antennas (antennae? LOL.), But it was B&W. It had to have been among the last wood cabinet "floor model" B&W sets.
Do you sell older tv"s also is it possible to mod them to accept HDMI though they are from the past? I am hoping to connect my stuff via HDMI and watch my shos on a 1968 Zenith In living color
Mine has the space command remote as well. I remember those tabs inside the set. You would turn them one direction and with the remote, it would skip that channel with the remote. The remote has 4 buttons, channel up, channel down, volume/off and a mute. If you muted the tv, you could control the hue control with the channel buttons. You had three levels of volume and on the 4th push, it would turn the set off.
My grandparents had a tv like this.We would go to their house to watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade.We called the remote the clicker because it would click when you canged the channel.
great set this is there first hi bred set. by 73 they started using tripplers and focus deviders that caused problems\ the set had a focus resistor that was carbon and would open up. This was the best set they ever built
We used to have a old set like this one kind of it would make a cracking noise when it was off we use to say it was my dead grandpa coming to visit my dad from the other side
I see lots of comments about how TVs were once nice pieces of furniture. If you still desire that look, buy a nice oak or cherry entertainment cabinet for your flatscreen. You might have to settle for a slightly smaller TV in so doing, but most nowadays will house up to 55” sets, which is more than double the size of the 25” CRTs most of us grew up with.
I thinks it’s my dream that when I get older- you know those people who like an era so much they live there life like there in that era? I wanna do that but I want to live in the 70s
There are ATSC to NTSC converters to receive current broadcast stations. Likewise you could get an HDMI to Composite adapter and an RF Modulator (Or use a VCR as the Modulator). A lot of cable TV boxes STILL put out NTSC (old school signals.) There's lots of options out there.
Is there any way to use a common CRT replacing a DELTA one ? I have an old TV kept at home since my childhood. I checked the signal amplitude using my oscilloscope in the three power video amplifiers , they seem to be ok. The red cannon is very worn out making the image cyan. Great job man , I am crazy about old appliances , cheers from Brazil !
That was a bit fancier than ours. We had a 1965 Zenith, with a four button remote control that worked with high pitch sound. I would change channels by jingling a chain from a magic set, which would piss off my old man.
Enjoyed that "high-tech" weather report. No Doppler in those days. How did you obtain that weather report? It looks like it's from 1971 or 72. A few years before VCRs were available.
It's amazing how back then people worked what they got technology wise to achieve the same results that we have today...looking back. Meaning no HD...no 1000 channels. It was analog and no digital to produce the same result...."broadcasting"
Thats a very nice looking TV. My 1984 Zenith is starting to get unwatchable. It has horrible "reception". I have white snow spots while trying to watch tapes and DVDs. Changing to a different coaxial cable or adaptor @ the antenna hookup doesnt solve the problem. Do you know what I should do?
People have forgotten how amazing tubes are. It is completely possible to build an working analog TV set without any transistors, IC-chips or solid state components at all. Even the silicon rectifiers can be replaced with 5U4 tubes! Besides being EMP resistant they are much prettier than dark drab chips and can even help heat your house in the winter thereby saving you money on heating bills.
