Old 1969 RCA New Vista Color TV - Turned on after 10 years...

UPDATE March 2021 - Thanks for the views! See pinned comment for a link to an "extended version" of this video! If you'd like to see other technology from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, reel-to-reel, cassette, 8 track, see "Old Technology Playlist" here --
• Old Technology
This TV is NOT for sale.
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Just turned this on in 2013 (first time since 2003) and everything still works! Here is some of the original marketing information: RCA Home Entertainment Center, New Vista Color Television - "The Brandywine" model HM-813 Solid State Phonograph, Computer Crafted AM-FM-FM Stereo Radio 23 inch diagonal, 295 square inch picture.
Tilt-out TV control panel for handy stand-up tuning. Advanced Automatic "Locked In" TV Fine Tuning (A.F.T.) is completely electronic, completely automatic - no extra switches or tuning meters. New Vista VHF tuner is the most powerful in the television industry. Advanced Solid State UHF tuner is precision engineered to provide excellent reception. Glare-proof RCA Super Bright Hi-Lite color picture tube is 20% brighter than any previous RCA tube. Computer Crafted C/COS 327 radio tuner - programmed for precision by an RCA Spectra 70 computer. New ceramic circuit modules that perform key functions of many individual parts. Advanced features include tuned R-F stage in both FM and AM, FM Stereo Indicator light, AFC, built-in antennas. 50 watt peak power Solid State stereo amplifier with frequency response of 50 to 20,000 Hz. Separate bass, treble, stereo balanced and compensated loudness controls. Studiomatic 4-speed turntable plays 7" 10" and 12" records automatically or manually, and new mini records manually. Massive 11 3/4" turntable. Automatic shut-off after last record. Adapter for 45-rpm and 3 7/8" records included. Feather Action Tone Arm protects records even if tone arm is accidentally bounced or slid across the record. Flipover styli - 7 mil Duralife diamond for microgroove records, 3 mil for 78's. Six-speaker sound system - two 12" oval duo-cone woofers deliver rich, full-bodied bass and mid-range presence and four 3 1/2" tweeters provide sparking treble. Stereo headphone jack; speaker switch; tape input/output jack.
00:00 - TV Test
00:35 - Record Test (Blocked)
01:50 - Glowing Tubes
02:24 - Radio Test

[@ACBMemphis]

Thanks for watching! Here is a new update with more footage and "restored" audio :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHPHfKKfm6yjgdE *** Please note: In this video, the Beatles song "Please Please Me" was playing from about 0:48 to 1:24 and really made the video work well, but 7 years after upload I had to trim it due to copyright claim or the video would have been blocked completely. Here's a playlist with our Vintage technology videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLvdr2fcSSucd6hFidGPdOIOYVkEqTTeoA

[@jonglewongle3438]

Not just copyright with the sickening tweeb, McCartney. The original recordings are to be wiped out, and its all being re-mastered so as to have McMoneybags remastering it all to delete and rework anything which the other three did actually input on the recordings. No sympathy for them from here, but such is what is happening.

[@fuzzywzhe]

Here's a question, would you ever want to go back to using this technology? It's funny, I'm starting to look at things that were "state of the art" when I was a kid in the same way I looked at my grandfather's stuff that he had around for 50 years. We kind of stalled out technology wise from 1950 to 1975 - with just minor improvements, but when the 80's rolled around, it only took us 20 years to basically replace everything. I think we're stalling out again, because really - does any person need a faster computer? Do they even want a better television? NTSC television is was about 480 x 720 pixels. Open up a photograph of those dimensions, and it's tiny. Thumbnails for pictures are often larger. It's nuts what we have available at the consumer level today. We are literally approaching the point where for image reproduction, there CAN'T be an improvement. Just think, if you video your kid today - when they are 80, they can have a video of themselves as a child, and it won't seen "old fashioned", it will look like it was taken yesterday because resolution won't increase, and color won't improve.

[@theevenonein9173]

@The 8-Bit Guy it’s copyright

[@DL-kc8fc]

@@theevenonein9173 While the advertising industry uses familiar tunes to lure a trusting customer to its products, many legal loopholes allow a bad trader to avoid punishment, even by making a small adjustment to the fifth bar. In addition, the average person, who only demonstrates an old technology that is not of such reproduction quality as to require copyright, has great problems. The purpose of the reproduced music should be examined to see if it is used to make money, which was not the case in the video when demonstrating old technologies. The removed melody could only promote itself.

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

What a Grand television set

[@altha-rf1et]

I remember when watching TV late at night on Friday and Saturday nights the channel going off the air, They would play the national anthem, we was at home we still stood up for it. then at 6:00 in the morning the channels will come back on with cartoons on Sat, Church on Sunday

[@nickhill8612]

Those were the good ol days.

[@thomasturner3583]

I remember an Air Force jet flying high into the sky and touch the face of God.

[@rickjohnson2859]

Back in the day when your kids were the remote control.😂

[@barrygiddey9139]

LOL True statement mate-RRR The old days 😆

[@joysoyo2416]

Better than schizophrenic channel changing and little louder, little louder, little louder, what I can't hear you.

[@skindianu]

Official channel changer, here

[@brinsonharris9816]

And we had 3 channels. The show I was watching had to be pretty bad for me to get up and change the channels. Sitting right in front of the TV helped, but my grandmother insisted I would ruin my eyes.

[@nkt1]

Yup, my sisters and I were the remote control from around 1978 to 1999, when my parents finally replaced their (still working) 1976 television set and 1982 VCR. Thankfully, the VCR had a remote. It was also still going strong, but the motor had become distractingly noisy.

[@thomasodetinape4180]

When made in the USA meant something. Damn good picture.

[@LK-pc4sq]

up till 1975 everything was made in the united states

[@thomasodetinape4180]

@@LK-pc4sq Yeah you'd get laughed at if something you owned said made in Japan. Now I'd pay to have something made in Japan😯

[@Anticommunism99]

When USA got an actual economy not just shipping China stuff and working in Amazon as a slave .

[@Michael_in_Vt]

I remember being curled up in front of one of those in the early 70's watching TV. My parents would put on records on Sunday mornings while we ate breakfast and cleaned up. To us it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[@jcdenton4621]

Nah, you're lying.

[@austonboston4361]

What’s so great about sliced bread? You got your bread, you got your knife. So, slice the fcuking thing! And get on with your life.

[@RicardoRodriguez-tc1yo]

A long time ago you had to slice your bread it didn't come presliced

[@victorjohnson7512]

Back when home entertainment was a big piece of furniture.

[@christinaFaith84]

And it still should be!! It looked nice and it had everything. Including a record player! I remember my grandparents had a record player similar to the TV in the video but it was just a record player. I always wanted one. But I also wish it was the 1950's . (but without the racism)

[@manchesterexplorer8519]

The music was 100% better.

[@SIKE01]

old timers Heaven on Earth entertainment center

[@randomrazr]

@@christinaFaith84 flat screens on the wall are far more space saving.

[@theextremeanimator4721]

@@randomrazr Yes, but they aren't the best at being aesthetically pleasing.

[@juantarango5142]

that's the smart tv 60's version

[@kbobdonahue1966]

Juan Tarango Unlike today's smart tvs, these entertainment centers weighed a ton, but they were cool.

[@usern4m32]

The premium version got the 3D option...

[@taesjagiya466]

Id still take that tv

[@henrimation5456]

Hecc, even better!

[@Bobbydonothing]

So smart

[@markmccummins8049]

These were what you put in your living room when you had “made it.”

[@ukmedicfrcs]

I would go back to this time in a heart beat.

[@djthereplay]

...... carrying a number of the things that I have today with me to record the shows that came on that actually meant something and be able to return back to today and watch those shows back non stop .

[@kokomo9764]

Not me. In 69 I was petrified of going to Vietnam. Things are not always as great as you remember. Riots in the streets etc.

[@ukmedicfrcs]

@@kokomo9764 Well I don't remember them at all as I wasn't born yet but I would still go back to that than the way the world is now.

[@tambomitch]

@@ukmedicfrcs I agree, things were simpler. Your young and I understand you as I’m the same

[@kokomo9764]

@@ukmedicfrcs I can understand that. But my recollections of those days gives me a different perspective. It wasn't all love and Woodstock. There was a lot of hate. Race riots, peace marches, anti-peace marches, nuclear safety drills, political corruption, FBI files on anyone who dared buck the system, yes, the good old days. It is interesting that in the 60s I longed for the simpler times of the 50s when life was quiet and America was a pleasant place to be. But that to was a false perception. Every generation longs for the simplicity of a past that never really existed.

[@geo386]

I still own an old RCA console, it's about 18-20 years old and still works to this day. It belonged to my grandparents and it makes me reminisce of the gold ole days when I watch it. I feel nostalgic and missing my grandparents who on Saturday evenings would watch Lawrence Welk on PBS channel 12. Thanks for the memory.

[@carlos31302]

Those vacuum tubes made the music sound warm and rich. You can't get that sound anymore in modern electronics. 💓

[@rsprockets7846]

Dad used to take the tubes out if the zenith once a month and down to the tube tester at pep boys

[@arfathkhalid1099]

You can still buy Tube Amplifiers... little expensive

[@terrystrahl6006]

Tube amps are in high demand by different groups who play because of there Mellow Sound, I have a few Mac's myself they were some of the best made ever....

[@davidtillwach5542]

It's not vacuum tubes sold state transistor

[@GE1463]

@@davidtillwach5542 What?

[@lunchboxdreams4538]

Big fan of any old RCA equipment, some of the best out there.

[@scatpack68]

My dad was a self employed TV repairman specializing in RCA from the late 50's til about 2003. My mom still uses the 1985 console they bought new. I remember testing tubes as a kid. Good memories.

[@realPhali]

That there is seriously the most badass piece of electronics I have ever seen! A glorious TV, radio AND turntable, all at once? Jeez, I wish I had one of these :)

[@billace90]

Pure gold. The set, the record, everything. Was waiting to see the Huntley Brinkley report on NBC....good old times.

[@televisionandcheese]

Wow it's impressive how modern the central TV unit looks It really feels like an 80s CRT box you could take out separately

[@andresuston7692]

Falling asleep on the floor in front of these things was the best feeling....I don't know why. 😊

[@Homegrown_Values]

Cool television, back when it was like a fine piece of furniture

[@fantasmadesinaloa]

Carol Anne M. LaRonde it still is furniture

[@orgami100]

Expensive piece of furniture

[@suburbia8831]

+RetroGuy76 yep 💰💰💰

[@bryanmartinez6600]

RetroGuy76 modern televisions are designed more Minimalist and modern old televisions were designed to blend with home and not to be an eyesore

[@Bro-cx2jc]

To think, some TVs don't even have RF, which means they have no tuner at all!!! *Stewie Griffin voice* that's absurd XD I always make sure any TV I get has at least RF so I can use my modulator on channel 3. I love the old fashioned stuff :)

[@michaelterry1000]

A full on entertainment center. Back when your Television, Stereo, and Hi-Fi Radio were combined into a nice piece of furniture.

[@altha-rf1et]

Back then the whole family room was decorated around the TV still got Loretta Lynn, Elvis, and Conway on 8 tract

[@rsprockets7846]

Wood paneling. Shag carpeting mirrored walls behind a tacky bar filled with booze..

[@Cjnw]

Now, all of them have been parodied by Family Guy!

[@itsdefinitelytrue7600]

It makes you feel old when you can remember a TV without a remote control🙂

[@AndreOutlaw]

My family had a one of these when I was growing up. It ended up in the basement when they bought a new console television in the early 70's, black and white, because they felt that color televisions didn't last as long. If they were still around I could show this to them and say: 40 years, is that long enough for a television to last? I remember having to warm up the TV before we could watch it also. And having a couple of spare tubes around as well.

[@charles2241]

I think what happened is that they established something of a prejudice against color for maybe two reasons. First of all, color was newer, so when it came out it was super expensive, and that stuck in their heads. With that came a sub-prejudice that it was only for rich people, so even when it was reasonably priced it would be giving in to buy one. You'll make them pay for their arrogance! And then there was the other prejudice that you couldn't buy one because your black and white worked just fine, and you would wait till it broke badly to get a color. I think my parents had a lot of those prejudices against color, but ultimately they rally enjoyed it when they got it years and years later. The notion that color tubes wouldn't last as long, was very lame damage control, firstly because why shouldn't just different lights work just as well, but even going against their own logic, the same color tv could do black and white if somehow color strained the tubes. Naturally, then they would have to go back to the expense angle, that black and white was still cheaper. And then you had the "I was brought up on black and white" argument. Yes, I was truly one of those brought up on it, but only because the parents stuck to black and white so long. The people who would use such an argument, the parents, weren't brought up on black and white, but on radio. They were "used to" black and white and that was all. I recall an episode of Hazel, where Hazel gets the first color set in the entire house and all the neighbors come over to watch it all the time, and that's pretty much how it was in a lot of places. Don't ask me how Hazel of all people had enough money to buy one, but it may had been one of her savings blowouts. Then Mr B gets jealous and has to get his own color set. Wait a minute, are you saying your parents had a color set like this one, but they moved it away of favor of a console b/w? Now that is kooky. No, you can't possibly mean that. They wouldn't even let the color one burn out before getting the console b/w, or did it burn out? Tell me they didn't replace a still working color unit, just because allegedly b/w tubes last longer!

[@randyharrigan4790]

Tvs now a days have a hard time lasting 4 years its sad

[@19seventy97]

Randy Harrigan, funny to think that a lot of CRTs have reached 44 years and the flatscreens cant meet 4.

[@bobg69]

I remember having a lot of these counsel tv/stereos in our house. Not one of them was ever new. Guys from the GM shop here in Flint called Chevy in the hole. They would either give them to my Father to work on but never would pay him for the repair jobs, so he kept them. Then there were the few the Grandparents would hand me down along with the ones we would pick up alongside the curb that people would throw out. Many of these were just needing a tube or two replaced or just a simple resistor replaced. Us kids would have a job after school pulling tubes and resistors from units that needed too much work. The tubes would go into boxes by the numbers labeled on them and the resistors would be put into baby jars by color combinations. I also remember having to hold a mirror so Dad could watch the picture on the TV as he made adjustments from the back side of them. He sold a lot of these units to people after fixing them up as well as refrigerators and freezers. That man taught us so much, God rest his soul. He sure was a true Jack of all trades like many men were back then.

[@jaworskij]

"...because they felt that color televisions didn't last as long." Oh really. My parents were born in the 1930s "(Silent Gen"). My Mom at age 20 bought a 1956 Viking (Eaton's ) B&W from $ she got paid working for the gov't. The next tv was a 1965 Viking B&W which had a crappy contrast. I used to go to Sears when I was a young boy and used to watch the colour tvs, hoping that one day Mom & Dad would some day buy a colour tv. My Dad bought a Sears (Hitachi) 20" portable in Feb. 1976. When I moved out 13 yrs. later, they gave me the Sears set. He still liked buying used B&W sets. Maybe that's why -- his perception or what Consumer Reports said at the time. The only other colour tvs was the 1969 Zenith he inherited after his parents passed away and the JVC 27" from 1999 after I bought them a DVD player.

[@ldhorricks]

Back Televisions were furniture.

[@ThatOneTruckGuy]

yep :P

[@Qui-9]

Took 2-4 people to move these things. Even the ones this size which were just stereos.

[@Bro-cx2jc]

I've got a rather small wood grain design television. Not sure if it counts as furniture, but you can set a few things on it. All the same, I don't have much trouble lifting it up and moving it around the house when needed. 14 inches, kind of small, uses about 60 watts, not bad for close viewing at low brightness (to not hurt the eyes). My previous one, a 1987 SR2000, was a little bigger but still not an effort to move very far. I got up three flights of stairs with it on my own in about a minute. Get the right size, big enough to view comfortably, small enough to carry without strain, you've got something good. I regret giving that SR2000 back. If I could, I'd choose it back over my current LXI Squareview. It used 84 watts, too, and most CRTs of a respectable size used over 100, so that still wasn't bad. I found a great 1998 Zenith CRT at my friend's house, a bit bigger than the SR2000, much too heavy for me to carry. Might take me five minutes to drag it across the hall to his room. But its sound was killer bass, though. Used 113 watts. I'd like one like that for its quality, but I'd also like the small, movable SR2000 that uses less power and still has respectable features. Even those knobs on the front of the TV are great. Who needs a remote when this is the kind of TV I like to sit close to? One I can reach forward to and adjust settings with a turn of my finger, rather than clicking a bunch of buttons and holding an arrow for ten seconds?

[@AndrewTheRadarMan]

Prabably harder to steal too

[@Qui-9]

Haha I'd laugh if I saw two burglars set up for stealing a high end CRT or projection TV from somebody's house, or a new tape deck from somebody's car 😆

[@redcarpeteater6903]

What I wouldn't give to have all the hours back I spent laying in front of a tv like this.

[@denniseldridge2936]

Holy moley this is awesome! The fact that it fires up after so many years in (and out) of service does indeed show the quality of these sets. It was obviously very well cared for, which is great to see. The only non-quality component is the turntable, which is the forerunner to the horrible BSR record players of the 70's. But the fact that that works to some extent as well is a tribute to it's quality.

[@ACBMemphis]

Most analog broadcasts ended in June of 2009, except for a few low power stations. In the video, the signal was originating from a VCR behind the TV. Thanks for watching.

[@rsprockets7846]

You could hook up a cable box or a dtv. Converter in that and get current digital broadcasts

[@RavenLotz]

You can still use a digital antenna at least in my city

[@97AshleyRose]

I wish I could time travel to experience life in days like that

[@boobus11]

It was as awesome!

[@97AshleyRose]

@@boobus11 I had a dream last night about the early/ late 2000s and woke up missing that lol when box TVs were still a thing and flip phones

[@bimscutney1242]

I remember looking into the back of our TV and seeing the glowing tubes and feeling the heat come out of the TV. Had a particular smell to it. My folks had a separate Hi-fi system from the TV. Could play records, 8 tracks, and had the radio. I remember buying an 8 track/cassette adapter so I could listen to my Van Halen cassettes.

[@josephhaddakin7095]

My friends would freak when they came over & watched our old round screen RCA cabinet tv. Parents finally got a new one in '81.

[@richfiles]

I loved all these old TVs. They were built to be beautiful, as well as functional, built to LAST, and they got really creative with the features. Back in my AV repair classes in college, I once repaired a TV that had a built in PHONE. You plugged your phone line into the TV, and when the phone rang, you had the option of pressing a button on the remote to use the TV like a speakerphone.

[@videotape2959]

That sounds amazing.

[@MrOrthopedia]

Cool.

[@thatonethattalksalot7656]

richfiles better than a smartphone!!

[@EdinburghGuy]

They still make TV's like that. I had to go into hospital and the TV/telephone system for patients beds (Hospedia) has a flat screen in the middle, a telephone handset on the left and a holder for the remote control on the right. If they really got things sorted out, they could have video calls.

[@yuvrajparmar3547]

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[@computerweenie]

Actually the stereo in most of these was pretty good. The first color TV my parents ever purchased was a big console like this. They were a beautiful piece of furniture as well.

[@jeromecabral192]

When I was 9 years old in 1987 mom purchased a one of these at a thrift store. It had a wonderful color picture. And was all tube. And loved looking in the back just to see the tubes warm up.

[@betsyhuggett2429]

I look at this and think of the genius that went into creating this equipment. Thank you, Pioneers in Technology!

[@markmantooth7693]

My grandparents had that SAME ONE! When I was a young kid, they would play the sound track from “Lady and the Tramp” and other Disney movies sound tracks. Watched a lot of NFL football and “SpeedRacer” cartoons too. Thanks for sharing!

[@tailsthegreenninja2003]

Wow. Can play TV, Records, and VHS tapes. Wish they did something like that today with Smart TVs or other TVs!

[@RWL2012]

VHS hadn't been invented yet. he was using an external early VCR from the late 1970s.

[@jackobyuk]

the all in one 1969 multimedia box...

[@murdockscott]

My family had something VERY similar, except it was tall. The record player (and record storage) was above the TV behind two doors. I think the speakers were in the bottom underneath the TV, so it was like the same thing, but in a vertical configuration. It looked like a wardrobe or a hutch. Doors could cover the TV as well or be folded back to the sides. Very interesting.

[@burtreynolds2969]

I have always loved the looks of older electronics. Has so much more mojo than todays boring black plastic looking stuff.

[@realinohio]

Now that was Television!! Brought a tear to my eye Thanks for posting ;-)

[@artistmac]

Back in '69, I used to see console color TV's like this in magazine ads and catalogs (they came in Colonial, Spanish and Contemporary), and long for the day we could afford one. We finally bought a Sears 19" "portable" color TV in October of 1970. First TV show I ever saw in color at my own house was a rerun of "Batman".

[@MerleOberon]

I remember seeing those giant TVs squeezed into a small living room, it was a status symbol.

[@Fred-nz9dp]

Was it solid state?

[@kirstengurl707]

Fred 707 Do these apliances still exist ?

[@Fred-nz9dp]

kirsten gurl70, they still exist and I have 36” crt floor model Mitsubishi tv and still works like new!

[@kirstengurl707]

Fred 707 Wow sooner or later these things are going to be worth a lot of money you watch.

[@porshprix4286]

My grandmother had that exact same model of television set. (Still worked in the early '80s)

[@TombstoneChris]

Now that's what you call a TV entertainment center. Not this thin piece of crap they make today. Had a TV similar to this growing up and I loved it. Wish I could go back.

[@shaserdeses]

Back when America produced high quality goods that lasted more than 40 years and didn't import crap

[@phoebecatgirl9968]

AMEN!

[@Fred-nz9dp]

Idk why my GE tv (25gt505) already 24 years old and made in America with real rca tv tubes.

[@spazzman90]

I dunno. I remember the tv repairman being at our house a number of times in the 1970s. Honestly, I don't miss him.

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

Strange. My dad had a TV that was given to him by his parents. It survived several moves (he was in the military) -- overseas and domestic -- and still worked decades later.

[@ryang2573]

My dad had a refrigerator that his parents bought for him as a wedding gift. The factory that made it was about an hour east of where we lived. That sucker lasted 30+ years before it finally broke. The funny thing was the problem was actually easily fixable (snapped compressor belt) but the company that made the fridge was absorbed by GE long ago and they no longer sell replacement parts.

[@justincase2281]

I love it!!! Takes me back to my childhood and teens. And some of the sound on these old consoles was great!!!

[@jeromecabral192]

Because they were all tube.

[@justincase2281]

@@jeromecabral192 It's said that tube amps have a " warmer" sound. I have to agree. Cheers.👍

[@b3j8]

We had one just like it! Besides the tv, my older brother wired speakers throughout the house and on the patio so my parents could listen to the stereo wherever they were. It worked fine into the late 1980's!

[@abdulrahimabubaker1322]

I rescued an old Santo TV set before it got destroyed, I brought it home, gave it a fresh coat of varnish, now it happily sits in our living room. Its a 60's model with stands, although it doesn't work but it looks beautiful, yours is awesome. :)

[@greekpapi]

I have a similar unit without the TV and the sound is actually quite good. The bass is super deep and the highs are crisp. Not bad for 70's technology.

[@kevindarrell3500]

Love it . I want my old one back. Sold it back in the 80’s. Great system. 👍

[@felipediazlorca2105]

a whole entertainment system, congratulations

[@marygurtler8419]

I remember having to walk across 9 feet of shag carpet to change the channel on one of these. Course we only had 3 channels.

[@MrHominid2U]

Yes we had 3 channels too: ABC, CBS & the local PBS. We lived out in the country and my dad put up a huge antenna on a high metal tower. When we wanted to switch from ABC to CBS he had to go out and use a pipe wrench which was always on the center pole the antenna was on to move it from one marker hashtag to another to get the channel.

[@brunster64]

@@MrHominid2U - In England (UK) we had 3 channels BBC1 BBC2 and ITV We didn’t have a colour set until 1973 😭

[@MrHominid2U]

@@brunster64 We did get cable and a small color TV when we moved to town in 1970 so I was 9. Back then cable consisted of the local channels (so we finally had NBC) and the Turner channels so I experienced many 50s and 60s movies. Also Star Trek was syndicated at 4pm every day.

[@hacco8201]

The first smart tv

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

What about it?

[@drewali7]

hacco blacksky console.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@john-vg9lg: Asking someone to finish their thought isn't "whooshable," dummy.

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

Wrong. _You're_ the dummy, dumb @@john-vg9lg. He didn't make a statement; he just randomly threw a term up there, dumb-ass. Why do _you_ even care?

[@HelloKittyFanMan.]

@@john-vg9lg: Of course you don't agree, because you're too stupid to understand what a statement is and what one isn't. So I'll attempt to teach you with what little bit of brain you may have. A statement would start with something like, "This is the..." That's why just throwing a term out there doesn't make it a statement, and is thus an incomplete thought, worthy of being asked "What about it?" about it, duh.

[@tommytuckersgoldencrown339]

My grandma got one of those and We still listen to Christmas music on it... it all still works great... thanks for this

[@rickreid81]

Love the old console TV. Wish RCA was still around and made their stuff in the USA like back in the day. Excellent video

[@scottfirman]

That is in beautiful shape! I had one in 1979. I loved the sound. It worked great, no vcr however.That is one old unit. Honestly, sounds like it just needs a good cleaning, tuner cleaner, vhs head cleaned and clean the turn table and possibly replace the belt,or just clean gears on direct drive unit. I cleaned mine and it worked like new. The sound is better than anything the market can make now days.

[@versedbridge4007]

I’m impressed with the speakers in that thing, unlike the crap speakers in modern televisions

[@themovietheatre]

This was $699 when new. ($4,600 in 2016 dollars)

[@radioboy7880]

So the price of a like 90' flatscreen

[@jameshagrant400]

Mike Rivest be g h huh u yno

[@RADIUMGLASS]

@@jessicahcarey3730 pretty close. A relatives house in 1968 was $7500 dollars. Older construction but still affordable.

[@pinketanti6649]

Can we get in this time

[@hom2fu]

lot of bells and whistles. must have

[@saurabhghosh398]

Greetings from India. Please preserve this priceless product. No modern equivalent can match its durability.

[@sir.fuentes7642]

We had one made in solid maple or oak with a Quasar color tv behind sliding doors, a stereo receiver, a Gerrard turntable and an 8 track player. It was the center of the living room.

[@RUCKERMAN]

This set was made the same year that I graduated from high school. It's hard to imagine that this kind of set is considered obsolete now and good only for the thrift store market. The switchover to digital from analogue broadcasting in 2009 didn't help either. The new flat screen TVs which have replaced the old analogue sets have very good pictures now, but they still have crappy sound. You have to feed the sound through at least a soundbar to get the volume and quality of sound comparable to what you got from this 50 year old CRT analogue model. Which, as my late father used to say, proves that not all changes are for the better.

[@MaryStewart]

+RUCKERMAN thank god for 5.1!

[@claudiosalvatore754]

+RUCKERMAN Thank you for this brilliant comment, i totally agree and couldn't say it any better than this!

[@juantarango5142]

hey RUCKERMAN digital is better the old school TV

[@claudiosalvatore754]

no way:))

[@NumbMonkE]

+RUCKERMAN Analog audio still is the premium quality. It's expensive to store in digital storage.

[@petermaz701]

Amazing quality built for years of use!

[@alanhumphrey4198]

I had RCA colortrack console but no built-in stereo...this was the dream model to have....

[@benw9949]

My family had a similar TV, maybe RCA brand, when I was growing up, but the controls were on the right side of the screen. The cabinet was solid wood and wood paneling, and there were sliding (or roll-up?) doors to hide / protect the screen (picture tube) when not in use. (Usually, it was just left open.) The TV used vacuum tubes! and the screen was a cathode ray picture tube, not flat, because LED and LCD and flat screens were years in the future. The first hand calculator with a red digital display we had was by Radio Shack and had only basic arithmetic, no scientific functions, big and bulky, but maybe five or ten years or more after my parents had bought the TV. So the TV dated from the mid to late 1960's. The calculator dated to the early 19670's. I remember it because it had a special place near the (main) phone between the kitchen and living room. There was a second phone in my parents' bedroom. Those phones were the old rotary style. One was sort of a pinkish-beige and the other was...whoa, I've forgotten if it was greenish or bluish or another pink-beige model. My grandmother had a yellow wall phone, also rotary, and a green one in the bedroom. The grid-style keypads for phones were either not common yet or not invented yet. That ancient TV made it to our new house when we moved, but then almost never got used, and we had a new projection-style TV, giant thing that sat on the floor and a silver stand screen the image was projected onto. That ws the early to mid 1980's. Still no flat screens in the 80's and 90's. Oh, and my parents had an old hi-fi stern, also vacuum tubes, from the 1950's that I was basically not allowed to touch, even as an older kid and early teen. It eventually gave up the ghost and was gotten rid of in favor of a 1970's model stereo with an 8-track cartridge, an audio cassette player, and a phonograph record player. It died in the 1990's. Noe: The old TV still worked when my parents had passed away before 2000. But no one wanted the thing.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Good memories.

[@moviestudioland]

Great memories. Thank you. Simpler time. Always wanted a color TV. And these days I can care less about TV. Because we have youtube.com

[@Melissa0774]

That's true.

[@arch4ngel]

cannot care less* sorry

[@chasr7860]

Back when electronics were all made in American and built to last.

[@elevatoroperator2021]

Japan and Germany too.

[@northzero2390]

Back in the day when you imported bands from my country ;-)

[@ryang2573]

Don't feel too bad. I still buy ale imported from you guys.

[@bighands69]

Today most of the electronics is designed in America and made in other countries. No wonder Chinese economy is growing.

[@cash4366]

nope you live on a small budget now

[@HughesEnterprises]

I remember taking my N64 around 2002 to my friends house and the only TV they had was an old tube one that took a couple minutes to warm up but had the right RCA plugs. Played Mariokart on a 50’s B&W tube TV and it worked great!

[@Paulywint]

Wow! That TV works great for being almost 50 years old.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

We had this same TV/Stereo when I was growing up (1970s) !!! About as heavy as a Buick (trust me.)

[@mylarigaja6883]

I want that tv

[@DTD110865]

Ours was a lesser model that didn't have the record player or AM-FM Radio.

[@revive5]

Wow, those capacitors in the set still working after all these years, I am a former domestic electronics repairer and it seems the VCR tracking head worn or tension belt is loose.

[@emilkarpo]

I spent my summers with my Grandparents up in Young and Jack County Tex and the summer of the Apollo 11 I badgered her into buying a color TV. Wisely she went for an RCA console. Gorgeous TV with amazing color. If I remember correctly a number of other set manufacturers used a clone of the RCA chassis.

[@jeromecabral192]

Lot of tv manufacturers did that like curtis mathes sometimes magnovox. At the age of 12 I learned to fix tube type tvs in the early 90s.

[@bruno8126]

That’s very impressive! Wow it has everything:) a vinyl record player, TV, radio and VHS

[@TheM2heavy]

that's awesome you need a TV tray and a Swanson TV dinner and a giant remote that weighs four pounds.

[@Tmanaz480]

Or if you were a kid, you'd lay on the floor and get real close, while mom yelled that you were going to ruin your eyes.

[@TheM2heavy]

You're totally right ha ha

[@steviebrockstar]

ryan gonzalez what is a remote?

[@ryang2573]

In my house the remote was me.

[@Qui-9]

No remote for these suckers.

[@bundesautobahn7]

Back when you still had to set Channel 3 to watch a video on your VCR. Kids today probably don't remember that.

[@deckofcards87]

Been 15 years since I watched a VHS tape but seems much much longer. I miss their covers.

[@confusedmaster1924]

Please be kind, rewind. RIP vhs rentals

[@CK2012]

remember having to do that,

[@plateshutoverlock]

Heh, it was channel 4 (or 2, depending on what channels the RF modulator supported) where I was growing up. Still remember the 300 ohm flat antenna leads which I used to connect my TI 99/4a to my B&W portable set back in 1986/87 so I could do a little Basic programming. At around the same time, we had a color TV and VCR with a kludgy flat/coax connection (the TV was entirely flat lead, the VCR used coax for VHF input/output and all flat lead for UHF, plus there was no RCA A/V jacks on the TV, so you can imagine the kind of wiring we had in the back of all that. Add an 8-bit Nintendo deck shortly after and things can get mighty weird :)

[@spark20]

and the adults only section room behind those goofy, pointless half curtain partitions. lol

[@acmaster5959]

Thank you, this video brought back a lot of great memories with my grandparents.

[@gabriellepe7839]

The Sound of the TV is just amazing, no distortion.

[@Galidorquest]

There was distortion.

[@ACBMemphis]

MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS Thanks, it's great to hear a positive comment from a video editing professional. The video was made so I could find the console a new home, and I ended up giving it to a friend here in town. Also have an older 1966 RCA stereo (no TV just record/radio) in storage and will probably make a video of it someday...

[@stereophonicsound2516]

2:25 Roxanne - The Police

[@darthgamer6080]

Back when American brands like RCA were the best in overall quality, reliability, and longevity.

[@spark20]

I'm more of a Zenith guy to be honest.

[@thomasodetinape4180]

My relatives had Curtis Mathis, my old man was too cheap. We had Zenith.

[@darthgamer6080]

@@thomasodetinape4180 "Cheap" by 1960s standards is "premium" by today's standards. Sad how disposable devices like TV's have become.

[@thomasodetinape4180]

@@darthgamer6080 yeah so true, our entire society is disposable now.

[@Satchmoeddie]

The AM/FM is solid state and was commonly shared with a lot of console TV stereos. I forget which T0-66 transistors those used for output. The radio parts were Japanese made and the overall quality was very good indeed., The TV set was mostly vacuum tube. Tubes like the 6BM7 was prized for use in TV audio. They had the output pentode and half the phase inverter or driver inside one bottle. Some had the IF and the driver in one bottle. There were a lot of AGC, ALC and AFT tubes that were more or self regulated to give a more balanced video signal. Sweep tubes drove the video signals into the picture tubes. They were relatively cheap and often used for audio and ham radio output tubes to save money. I used to work at a TV/Radio/Stereo and broadcasting & studio equipment repair shop. This was back in the days of CARTS for radio broadcasts.

[@ACBMemphis]

Thanks for watching!

[@lloydjanney2613]

Had one when I was kid. Thanks for the time trip back to days before the enternet.

[@ApexLight7]

This is so cool. Let’s hook up a Nintendo to it and really have some fun!

[@gregorylangford5256]

Takes me back to when everything was cool.

[@rsprockets7846]

Our rca xl 1pp lasted from Sept 72 to oct 94

[@gregorylangford5256]

@@rsprockets7846 You oughta place this inside a museum and get paid !!!!

[@eltunene]

I used to own my Radio&TV repair center, and I fixed a lot of those fine sets!!! This clip brought me pleasant memories, back in the 60s.

[@johnhorter1859]

Nice! My grandparents had one like this or similar, with the turntable and radio. When we visited there we watched color TV for the first time which was awesome to see when all TV you'd ever seen was black and white. The thing must have been very expensive when it was new.

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

We still have one in our den, and it still works as well.

[@frankpitochelli6786]

When I first started in the TV repair buss. back in 79......we worked on MANY of these models. Changed many flybacks, 6GH8A tubes, 6LE6/6LQ6 horz.out.......and, like this tv in this video, the tuner needs to be cleaned and lubed.....blue stuff tuner spray worked best for a quick fix. Many memories.....looking at this video...I can still remember how the set would smell when it was running !!

[@WAQWBrentwood]

Wild that you brought that up! I can still smell it too! ("kids" today wouldn't get that!)

[@Pulverrostmannen]

I know the feel, the smell of tubes and dust getting warm is very special kind of smell, I may not been alive while tubes were the normal household item but that won't hinder me from buying old radios, fix them and listen to the 30s to 50s sound they have neither from building my own tube amps. don't know why, but I have always loved tubes since I was small and heard about them.

[@daytonasixty-eight1354]

Repairing TVs? That's pretty amazing. Today you would just throw it away and buy a new one because our society has become disposable and the skills to fix broken things is going away.

[@InsideOfMyOwnMind]

6GH8's were like 2N2222's with extra leads. Now there is a modern day product that still uses them. warmenfat.blogspot.com/

[@michaelhenwood4046]

I think that was 6JE6/6LQ6.The 6LQ6 was a leaded glass version.I was partial to GC's "tunerlube".Less drift in the tuner.

[@Beth9228]

My parents had a console end table with record player, 8-track player, FM & AM radio. My parents got it in the mid 70’s and had till 1993. I remembered using it a lot while growing up from 6 years old to 22 years old. I was tuning to a station when I was 6 years old and heard a Beatles song on the radio. Even playing records on that thing,too.

[@adam8137]

Wow so many memories come flooding in. I'm 37 and when I was growing up we had a Curtis Mathis tv that looked real similar my brother got a cassette stuck in the 8-track that we couldn't get out. I miss that thing

[@jeanguy974]

listing to the hum of the filter caps. Cool video brotha.

[@laustinspeiss]

Slight correction... the filter caps are there to reduce the hum. More likely the 50/60 Hz mains transformer bolted to the chassis.

[@OldschoolBoards99]

this thing is so cool!! tv record and tape, wow i want one of these so badly but not enough room

[@97AshleyRose]

OldschoolBoards99 ikr I wish time travel were possible

[@niffuM4205]

0:09 that TV static is smooth as heck.

[@RSTI191]

WE HAD THIS TV!!! I remember that pull out compartment and those color and contrast knobs... OMG.. It was our first color set. I'll never forget when my father turned it on, I was about 7 yrs old, the first thing I see in color- Emma Peel in that purple and yellow jumpsuit. Slammin hot Diana Rigg. I was dead in the water.

[@sydneyx906]

1:20 when you have a beautiful dream and your mom wake up you to go to school

[@the123king]

That VHS sounds a bit sad.

[@cletusspuckler2243]

Josh Rice The VHS has tracking issues .

[@jeeprod1]

those old top loaders had a manual tracking knob you had to adjust for each tape

[@EverythingRetro1]

I have the Magnavox version of that top loading VCR and it had the same problem. Once I used a VHS head cleaning tape it came back to life with crisp clean image quality :)

[@darinb.3273]

The VCR's tape path needs a good cleaning OR the connection on the cue head was not making connection ... it would repeatedly have a good picture and then go awful

[@JTC2227]

Josh Rice I Agree

[@flyingonblades]

That TV is beautiful! I’m a huge fan of console TVs. This is one of the best looking consoles I’ve ever seen.

[@ACBMemphis]

Thanks!

[@colbyhurley7646]

It's crazy how home entertainment systems like this one still works 50 years after it came off the showroom floor, and now it's hard to find just a basic radio that will stand to the test of time and last more than 10 years without breaking and forcing you to go buy the new latest and greatest one.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Colby Hurley I still have my first BluRay player from 2007 and it works great. It’s an LG BH-100

[@jeromecabral192]

Exactly I have a set from rca that is color and has tubes and works great. Also a sears black and white 21 inch tv all tube that works

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Most flat screens don't last more than 10 years despite their increased functionality. Newer tech ain't built to last.

[@cardogkitchen4106]

does a bird come out of the remote control like the flintstones

[@elevatoroperator2021]

Dose not have one

[@danthomas9077]

haha we got one of these exact same TV's in 1969 when I was a kid, moved up from black and white! Such a time warp seeing this, getting flash backs! ;)

[@Qui-9]

Remote... lol. We can tell how young you might be 😆

[@craighalpin9521]

I bet you they included that feature into their next model

[@79chaplin]

Ha! You showed your age. Kids today don’t know the flintstones.

[@peterfranks6243]

As soon as the tv turned on it showed the movie Rollercoaster, with the late George Segal and Henry Fonda, just in case you were wondering

[@packingten]

George just passed away a short while ago RIP brother.

[@peterfranks6243]

@@packingten first saw him in The Duchess and the Dirtwater fox, liked him ever since, we will miss him

[@gilhernandeziii4031]

Priceless! We had one... Thank you the throw back...

[@RobbieStrike]

So cool that it is in such good condition. Lovely video!

[@ACBMemphis]

Our channel features lots of old technology, and this is our most viewed video by far.... Today, 7 years after upload and 1 year after monetization, it was blocked in all countries due to the Beatles record playing the background. So, to unblock the video, I had to mute the song. If you want to experience this video in its original form, play a scratchy version of "Please Please me" on a worn out turntable, over some 50 year old TV speakers, with a hum in the background - record it on a camcorder microphone. Starting playing at 0:48, then slow it down at about 1:21... :)

[@stevenbennett3805]

That's why you'll never hear a Beatles song being sung by the Beatles on You Tube or any tv program. Copyright holders will sue the crap out of violators. Some bars in Florida learned the hard way when they got hit for playing home recorded Beatles music on a cassette player in the bar. Don't screw with ASCAP or BMI.

[@roachtoasties]

Darn! I missed it. That's exactly how I like to enjoy Beatles classics. :/

[@SailorMoon126]

Can you upload the video on Dailymotion with the music intact?

[@thebrighterlightpodcast8010]

I'd be afraid to play around inside the back of one of those things. Those TV's were dangerous to tamper with. I'd love to have it though.

[@retrogamelord3763]

The Brighter Light Podcast Yeah

[@Rebel9668]

Any electronic device is dangerous to tamper with inside if you don't know what you're doing and that includes modern flat panel tv sets as well. I imagine you're referring to the flyback transformer though. It was located in an isolated metal box from the rest of the components and yes, it could give quite a shock. My Pappy used to work on these sets back in the day and touched the wrong spot in the flyback once, it knocked him clear across the room! I've never attempted to work on one of these beauties or any other tv for that matter, but I do enjoy restoring old tube radios.

[@Rebel9668]

As long as the radio is unplugged touching the chassis itself shouldn't harm you. If you want to discharge any capacitance in the caps you can drain them with a resistor across their leads and then use a multimeter to see they're fully drained. After that you can touch it all you like, unless of course you plug it back in.

[@Qui-9]

Yea you weren't safe just turning it off or even unplugging it. You practically had to perform a lock out tag out procedure and discharge the capacitors.

[@thomasodetinape4180]

Those cathodes were a hoot to shoot up at the dump with .22's, sound like a mortar round

[@rongendron8705]

My father bought a 1969 RCA color 'consolette" which looked like the middle portion of this set! When I marred in 1970, I bought the same 1969 model ( a new leftover) for about $450. The set worked very well, but when I moved some 50 miles from NYC in 1972 & didn't have cable, the signal got weaker! In 1989, I finally 'broke down' & got cable & bought a new 1989 27" RCA console, which I still have,( but no longer use), to this day! They were great, long lasting & dependable sets!

[@nathanielaranda8407]

love old stuff :)

[@gile849]

Me too man :)