Symbol of an Era

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I received this photo recently from a friend. This nice display shows vintage German TV sets. They are on the Volkswagen Museum in Germany. The people in charge of the museum thougt ( very correctly, in my humble opinion ) that such display would be a perfect symbol of the era ( late 40's and early 50's ) in which the first Volkswagen Beetle cars began rolling out of the assembly lines.

The two curious things about this picture is that among the TV's there appear to be a JVC Videosphere - but wasn´t that model projected to work with american standards? The other thing is, you can probably notice that the crt's are much more "square" than on American or other European sets of the same vintage. This is due to the fact that the Germans already had a completely square crt in 1939! I wonder how on earth they managed to pull that off.