RCA CT100 CT-100 Vintage Color Television TV Set

[@TonyL1000]

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!!!

[@RoughJustice2k18]

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.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

This TV is the stuff of legends! Known to be one of the first color TVs to ever go on sale.

[@senorkaboom]

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.

[@bobskie321]

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.

[@harshnemesis]

Way more expensive than the 60 inch oled 4k tv could be under a grand, it's amazing how much tech has progressed

[@davidh9844]

@@harshnemesis HEY! 1954 was 70 years ago!!!

[@harshnemesis]

@@davidh9844 Yeah nice math 2021 - 1954 = 70 xD

[@trainliker100]

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.

[@jrs0007]

Got to see one play at the TV museum in Ohio. Fantastic color for such a complicated chassis. Kudos to the restorers.

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

Antigamente os aparelhos eram feitos pra durar 100 anos está é a sensação! Abraço e se cuida😷

[@jimw7ry]

3:25 Look at the SIZE of that POWER TRANSFORMER! WOW!

[@TerryMcKean]

What became of this set in the 5 years since you made this video? That set is rare find and very historic and valuable. :)

[@atlantic1952]

A really great find! Well done, I hope the CRT is usable. Good luck.

[@HarleyBadger]

We have one, got the chassis out of it now but the kine has 100% emissions and full vacuum.

[@TerryMcKean]

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.

[@kraig8812]

@Terry McKean, you should check out Spats Bear's new video he uploaded.

[@dantonidambroz7965]

A engenharia desse televisor me encanta mais que a da Samsung Galaxy e Nintendo Switch.

[@tough213]

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

[@seatboi]

So WHAT did you do with this set? Everybody's dyin' to know!!!

[@Retep4565]

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.

[@harshnemesis]

hopefully he smashed it, that's what I would do

[@applanateearth586]

@@harshnemesis mentula caput

[@harshnemesis]

@@applanateearth586 Sorry, I don't speak mexico

[@benhaley7557]

Wow

[@nancydarling4918]

Nice tv. Interesting video. Thanks for filming.

[@chuckchristian2059]

I liked to have an old tv in our basement that works

[@actofcawd209]

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!!

[@metalmanin]

Hey I know a guy right now who has an Arvin Color tv with a 15GP22 that works perfectly.

[@TerryMcKean]

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......

[@TerryMcKean]

... I found out... same # CRT...15GP22

[@directcurrent5751]

Is this the beginning of our SHANGO066 universe?

[@YonnyHagstar]

First thing one does with these is test the CRT, which is 2/3 the value of the set.

[@MrUbiquitousTech]

Did you watch the video?

[@goldenboy5500]

that TV cost $11,551.41 in today's money

[@peugeotrider2016]

can't wait to see this beauty work

[@dynamic881964]

What a find !

[@douro20]

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.

[@scottbrady7499]

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?

[@davidcorreira5411]

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

[@chuffpup]

Nothing like this in New Zealand. 😳. Sob...😭 sniff..

[@paulstubbs7678]

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

[@TheCRTman]

Awesome!

[@johnmoyer2849]

Had a couple of ctc5 chassis many years ago

[@rsattahip]

You could use that thing for a room heater

[@robertestes4703]

Have you began restoring the television that began it all?

[@ScDMiller1]

If my history of TVS is correct that TV set was built in Indianapolis or Bloomington, Indiana? 🤔📺😊

[@audubon5425]

Very nice, but will it blend?

[@davidcorreira5411]

Isn't the TV from 1954 or 55??

[@randyab9go188]

Shame you sold it. Did the purchaser ever get it going?

[@foxrivers]

Any updates on this??

[@bernardeverett212]

He sold it years ago

[@gregorymalchuk272]

How do you know? He never mentioned anything about selling it?

[@TerryMcKean]

@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. :-)

[@robertestes5887]

Should have sold this set to Spats bear

[@ICM3]

does it work?

[@EastAngliaUK]

Hopefully it won't EOL for many more years to?

[@joseedivaldobarros3615]

It's very old. é muito antiga

[@Synthematix]

CT chassis? i thought the CT stood for colour television?

[@heath7766]

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.]

They had color tvs back then???

[@theincorruptibles1279]

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.

[@jimshulman9221]

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.

[@100Transistors]

They did but Australia was a bit late to the party, with B/W tv introduced in 1956 and colour introduced in around 1975.

[@terryaichele9265]

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.

[@jrs0007]

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!

[@dondesnoo1771]

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 .😎

[@MerleOberon]

any updates?

[@thomasmutter8896]

you need to turn it on to prove it is colour and not black & white

[@ladr1550]

Its color

[@adrianfrigo8373]

LocalAndDxRadio Was...

[@pyeltd.5457]

@@adrianfrigo8373 its colour

[@adrianfrigo8373]

@@pyeltd.5457 I know that.

[@KennethScharf]

Almost all of those 15" CRT's developed leaks. Very shitty designed tube.

[@scalamasterelectros3204]

I have this exect screw driver

[@tristanmathesonsinventory2443]

301st!

[@clairedick8802]

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[@harshnemesis]

the crt is tiny lmao

[@paulstubbs7678]

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.....

[@harshnemesis]

@@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.

[@harshnemesis]

@@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

[@hattree]

@@harshnemesis That would have been huge for a color set. I think B/W sets were only around 20 inches maybe then.

[@harshnemesis]

@@hattree I guess they could make the cabinet smaller then, just so there isn't such large difference between screen to cabinet ratio

[@andrez03]

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!

[@luisantoniomarrega1120]

Antigamente os aparelhos eram feitos pra durar 100 anos está é a sensação! Abraço e se cuida😷