the technology in this TV impress me more than any IPOD or PS3 ,absolutely amazing for 1954 !!!! kudos to the people with skills for restoring these precious Icons of Color!!!
@RoughJustice2k184 жыл бұрын
The CT-100 uses a CTC-2 chassis and was one of the first RCA color sets to be introduced in USA in 1954. One of the major problems this model suffered during its short production run, was with the CRT (15GP22) being prone to losing vacuum due to the way it was built, compared to other tubes at the time.
@MichaelOKeefe20094 жыл бұрын
This TV is the stuff of legends! Known to be one of the first color TVs to ever go on sale.
@senorkaboom10 жыл бұрын
It had to start with something. I, too, am amazed at the electronics in this TV. On Wikipedia they have the chassis pulled out and it is even more amazing to see it. My grandfather bought an RCA color set in 1959 or 1960, a big, black metal cabinet, 19 or 21 inch roundie. Had it for years.
@bobskie3218 жыл бұрын
I googled it and the original price of that model was $1,000 in 1954 and by using inflation calculator is $8,945.99 in 2016 which is more expensive than 60" OLED 4KTV.
@harshnemesis4 жыл бұрын
Way more expensive than the 60 inch oled 4k tv could be under a grand, it's amazing how much tech has progressed
@davidh98443 жыл бұрын
@@harshnemesis HEY! 1954 was 70 years ago!!!
@harshnemesis3 жыл бұрын
@@davidh9844 Yeah nice math 2021 - 1954 = 70 xD
@trainliker1003 жыл бұрын
Whoever originally purchased this probably had some neighbors, and neighbor's kids, come over to see it and ooh and ahh at it. At that time, not everybody even had black and white TV's, much less a color TV.
@jrs00074 жыл бұрын
Got to see one play at the TV museum in Ohio. Fantastic color for such a complicated chassis. Kudos to the restorers.
@luisantoniomarrega11204 жыл бұрын
Antigamente os aparelhos eram feitos pra durar 100 anos está é a sensação! Abraço e se cuida😷
@jimw7ry9 ай бұрын
3:25 Look at the SIZE of that POWER TRANSFORMER! WOW!
@TerryMcKean8 жыл бұрын
What became of this set in the 5 years since you made this video? That set is rare find and very historic and valuable. :)
@atlantic195210 жыл бұрын
A really great find! Well done, I hope the CRT is usable. Good luck.
@HarleyBadger10 жыл бұрын
We have one, got the chassis out of it now but the kine has 100% emissions and full vacuum.
@TerryMcKean6 жыл бұрын
Right on, Harley... how's it going now?... last I heard, Spats had changed practically all the capacitors and some other stuff in the chassis.
@kraig88125 жыл бұрын
@Terry McKean, you should check out Spats Bear's new video he uploaded.
@dantonidambroz79652 жыл бұрын
A engenharia desse televisor me encanta mais que a da Samsung Galaxy e Nintendo Switch.
@tough2136 жыл бұрын
so I am sure you were able to get this television working . you always get the oldest and most beaten up gear working so this should be no different all the best have a great rest of your weekend and great week to come
@seatboi5 жыл бұрын
So WHAT did you do with this set? Everybody's dyin' to know!!!
@Retep45654 жыл бұрын
He turned it into a fish-tank in one of his videos. Well worth a watch if you love the sound of a 15GP22 sucking in air.
@harshnemesis3 жыл бұрын
hopefully he smashed it, that's what I would do
@applanateearth5863 жыл бұрын
@@harshnemesis mentula caput
@harshnemesis3 жыл бұрын
@@applanateearth586 Sorry, I don't speak mexico
@benhaley75573 жыл бұрын
Wow
@nancydarling49185 жыл бұрын
Nice tv. Interesting video. Thanks for filming.
@chuckchristian20593 жыл бұрын
I liked to have an old tv in our basement that works
@actofcawd2092 жыл бұрын
I'd be thrilled to get a TV set as old as this one, let alone a color set. I couldn't find ANY on Ebay that work!!
@metalmanin12 жыл бұрын
Hey I know a guy right now who has an Arvin Color tv with a 15GP22 that works perfectly.
@TerryMcKean6 жыл бұрын
Right on, metalmanin... I wonder what Westinghouse's color set's CRT's # was ..their color set that came out JUST before RCA's CT-100......
@TerryMcKean6 жыл бұрын
... I found out... same # CRT...15GP22
@directcurrent5751 Жыл бұрын
Is this the beginning of our SHANGO066 universe?
@YonnyHagstar8 жыл бұрын
First thing one does with these is test the CRT, which is 2/3 the value of the set.
@MrUbiquitousTech7 жыл бұрын
Did you watch the video?
@goldenboy55004 жыл бұрын
that TV cost $11,551.41 in today's money
@peugeotrider201614 жыл бұрын
can't wait to see this beauty work
@dynamic8819648 жыл бұрын
What a find !
@douro2013 жыл бұрын
You need to get that 15GP22 CRT checked out. Just about the only place in the US which could restore it is Lexel Imaging in Lexington, KY.
@scottbrady74994 жыл бұрын
you see the back panel of this rather historic edition, has a wave-guide pattern, as we see on the door windows of microwave ovens, -so we don't wind up scorching our corneas, ..for breakfast. flyback cage looks robust, but what serves up the x-rays, isn't in there, someplace?
@davidcorreira541111 жыл бұрын
i have many vintage TV sets but the one you hav i am looking for but somtime ill find and resore one when i have more experience with the dangerious TV's
@chuffpup5 жыл бұрын
Nothing like this in New Zealand. 😳. Sob...😭 sniff..
@paulstubbs76784 жыл бұрын
Same in OZ, no roundies at all - blast I wouldn't mind importing a small B&W set, however the freight costs from the US are a killer
@TheCRTman11 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@johnmoyer28495 жыл бұрын
Had a couple of ctc5 chassis many years ago
@rsattahip5 жыл бұрын
You could use that thing for a room heater
@robertestes47039 жыл бұрын
Have you began restoring the television that began it all?
@ScDMiller13 жыл бұрын
If my history of TVS is correct that TV set was built in Indianapolis or Bloomington, Indiana? 🤔📺😊
@audubon542514 жыл бұрын
Very nice, but will it blend?
@davidcorreira541111 жыл бұрын
Isn't the TV from 1954 or 55??
@randyab9go1886 жыл бұрын
Shame you sold it. Did the purchaser ever get it going?
@foxrivers8 жыл бұрын
Any updates on this??
@bernardeverett2127 жыл бұрын
He sold it years ago
@gregorymalchuk2726 жыл бұрын
How do you know? He never mentioned anything about selling it?
@TerryMcKean6 жыл бұрын
@Gregory Malchuk... I would imagine that when folks found out that he had that set... that awesome, priceless, historic set... he probably had 10 centillion people flooding his email, etc etc etc like sharks at a friggin' feeding-frenzy and he quietly and privately sold it to someone. :-)
@robertestes58873 жыл бұрын
Should have sold this set to Spats bear
@ICM37 жыл бұрын
does it work?
@EastAngliaUK9 жыл бұрын
Hopefully it won't EOL for many more years to?
@joseedivaldobarros36155 жыл бұрын
It's very old. é muito antiga
@Synthematix5 жыл бұрын
CT chassis? i thought the CT stood for colour television?
@heath77664 жыл бұрын
Ctc, ct-100 stood for color television-100 the ctc is rca's chassis identification for a color tv chassis. This has a ctc-2 chassis or ct-100.
@Canerican.7 жыл бұрын
They had color tvs back then???
@theincorruptibles12797 жыл бұрын
They did, but only NBC broadcast in Color until the '60s. And only a few of NBC's programs were in color, most were presented in black and white.
@jimshulman92216 жыл бұрын
The Incorruptibles CBS also had occasional broadcasts in color until 1959, when Bill Paley discontinued them (the result of spite against RCA's David Sarnoff). The famous CBS 1955 special with Noel Coward and Mary Martin, "Together With Music", was broadcast in color. ABC did not have color broadcasting capabilities until the middle 1960s.
@100Transistors5 жыл бұрын
They did but Australia was a bit late to the party, with B/W tv introduced in 1956 and colour introduced in around 1975.
@terryaichele92654 жыл бұрын
ABC broadcast 'The Flintstones' in color beginning in 1962. Only a handful of ABC owned and operated stations along with a few affiliated stations had color capability at that time. The ABC stations that didn't have color capability would hold the start of the show until after the "This is an ABC color presentation" intro played so as not to confuse the people in the audience who owned color TVs in those areas where it was broadcast in black and white. For several years ABC was the only other network to broadcast color programs until CBS began in 1965 with 'The Ed Sullivan' and other programs.
@jrs00074 жыл бұрын
I was a little kid in the early 60s. Folks went grocery shopping on Friday nite. There was a TV dealer next to the A&P and the shop owner let dad drop me off to watch the Flintstones in color while parents shopped. I think that's what got me interested in electronics. Also loved Jonny Quest in 1964 - best TV cartoon ever!
@dondesnoo17715 жыл бұрын
1954 w as ctc4 this tv was 1951 or2 there was a three and 2 this Is the one.i cut a table model used the tube for a test right for my CTC 3and4 about 1960 tube eventually cracked .😎
@MerleOberon12 жыл бұрын
any updates?
@thomasmutter88966 жыл бұрын
you need to turn it on to prove it is colour and not black & white
@ladr15506 жыл бұрын
Its color
@adrianfrigo83735 жыл бұрын
LocalAndDxRadio Was...
@pyeltd.54574 жыл бұрын
@@adrianfrigo8373 its colour
@adrianfrigo83734 жыл бұрын
@@pyeltd.5457 I know that.
@KennethScharf8 жыл бұрын
Almost all of those 15" CRT's developed leaks. Very shitty designed tube.
@scalamasterelectros32043 жыл бұрын
I have this exect screw driver
@tristanmathesonsinventory24434 жыл бұрын
301st!
@clairedick88024 жыл бұрын
T
@harshnemesis5 жыл бұрын
the crt is tiny lmao
@paulstubbs76784 жыл бұрын
Back then the goal was just to make it all work - bigger screen's were the last thing on their minds It the picture is too small, sit closer.....
@harshnemesis4 жыл бұрын
@@paulstubbs7678 That's obvious, because they had such primitive tech (crt) that even much later couldn't be much bigger than 30 inch and that already weighted a ton and was so thick.
@harshnemesis4 жыл бұрын
@@paulstubbs7678 That said this was still a very small crt, maybe even for the 50s when that came out, doesn't even look like 15 inch as he said, maybe if you take that texas size bezel into account, then it is, the cabinet itself is like 25 inches, but this has a 10 inch screen, lol
@hattree3 жыл бұрын
@@harshnemesis That would have been huge for a color set. I think B/W sets were only around 20 inches maybe then.
@harshnemesis3 жыл бұрын
@@hattree I guess they could make the cabinet smaller then, just so there isn't such large difference between screen to cabinet ratio
@andrez038 жыл бұрын
Great vintage set for viewing vintage color programming such as Wizard Of Oz, Gone With The Wind, etc. The historic ambience is maintained. Bonanza season one? Ya gotta have a 1959 vintage set for that particular program. LOL!
@luisantoniomarrega11204 жыл бұрын
Antigamente os aparelhos eram feitos pra durar 100 anos está é a sensação! Abraço e se cuida😷