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maxm · #16 01-01-2006, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

I notice the bezel surround matches the CRT faceplate color - at least one model got it right!

It looks like Zenith was really trying to give the illusion of a rectangular tube.

Carmine · #17 01-01-2006, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

I notice the bezel surround matches the CRT faceplate color - at least one model got it right!

I'd guess they were all correct when new, (I have one that matches too) but 40-years worth of CRT changes have "undone" all that.

bgadow · #18 01-04-2006, 12:58 PM

Those replacement crts never have that green look, it seems.

This is that kinda set that you can miss. With the doors closed it doesn't scream "TV". I can usually spot them when they are incognito but I think I would have had to seen this one from behind.

2005 wasn't the best year of my life (though not the hardest either, just mediocre) but it was a great year for my collection, with additions ranging from my first 630ts to a ton of hybrids. I think this is going to be a good year.

TVtommy · #19 01-04-2006, 07:55 PM

Well, thats just wrong!(that I ain't been able to find nuttin' that fine!) I been wantin a chinese cab. something ever since I saw a manchu Dumont in Jersey some years ago. I shoulda bought that but at the time if it won't round color it won't coming home. A roundie Zenith chinese is just toooo cool. And a space command at that. Damn!

Jeffhs · #20 01-05-2006, 01:37 AM

Great find, Doug.

Until I saw yours, I had never seen a Zenith roundie in such a beautiful cabinet. The last sets I had seen in the Chinese style cabinets were 1949-'50ish Stromberg-Carlsons (my late aunt had one in a white console cabinet with doors over the CRT; the Chinese artwork was on the large rectangular door pulls).

I will be looking forward to seeing a picture of your set in operation. If it makes a decent picture even with the convergence yoke broken in pieces, it will probably have a superb picture once the convergence issues are corrected. As I have said here before, those older Zeniths were and still are great TVs, much better than the "Zenith" branded LG sets coming off the lines from Korea. I have an LG cell phone, but would not touch an LG television with a ten-foot antenna mast, let alone own one.

Keep us posted.

Kind regards,