Can you ID this late roundie?

[jmdocs]

Can anyone identify the el cheapo set featured in this YouTube clip?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSGQo...e=channel_page

Only $398 and it has an 8-track player sitting on top!

Jeff Martin

[Carmine]

Commercials mention Chicago.

Could it be a Muntz?

[edison64]

If memory serves me right, I think that was a division of Goldblatz Derpartment store, they sold lots of offbrand stuff. the spot was from around 71-73 32 was owned back then by Kiazer Aluminium (sorry for the spelling) did any one notice that it was the only roundie??? or that you can play all 4 functions at once??????? as we used to say "way mod far out"

[zenithfan1]

The brand mentioned is a TMA, I was going to ask about that brand one of these days, I took a screenshot off of Lets Make a Deal and it was one of those TMA sets but with a rectangular screen. I have never heard of them before. It was cool watching this, I hooked the computer to the video switcher and watched it on the '61 blue Zenith set.

[rcaman]

there is a large roundie console in the background. this was probley a bait and switch scheme which still goes on today at the superstores. steve

[JohnAdams]

This was posted last year:
If I read this right.
My SAMS Photofact annual index for 1970 lists a couple of Muntz 1969 color receiver chassis with #9021. Folders 1006 & 1008. It also lists similar chassis also called #9021 in folder 830 from 1966. The manufacture is listed as "Television Manufactures of America" Muntz Division. 1020 Noel Avenue Wheeling, Ill. Anyone have these folders?
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/arc.../t-174212.html

[bgadow]

I posted some photos in that old thread; you have to click on "view full topic" or whatever it reads at the top, then go to page 2. Cheap stuff.

[wkand]

Could it be Curtis Mathes? The Seatle area had a lot of cheap combos in the late 1960's to early 70's from CM, sold at the TVS Warehouse stores. Later on they featured the first sub-$300 VCR, a 45 lb. Sanyo Beta machine in the early 1980's.

[akent36]

I'll bet it's a Muntz.

By the way, that phone number should probably be POS 6900.