Here is a 1970 Zenith model A6519P, which uses the hybrid type 12A12C52 chassis. This model has the optional space command 600 Remote control! WATCH THIS VIDEO IN STEREO HD, copy and past: &fmt=18 at the end of the url.
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@Mikej15929 жыл бұрын
holy crap, it still gets 1970 weather reports!
@steve_cdh73244 жыл бұрын
r/wooosh
@MisterMikeTexas4 жыл бұрын
You're in the Twilight Zone!
@rtcp20203 жыл бұрын
Actually he put KZbin videos.
@janegrant43963 жыл бұрын
What happened to John Coleman? Guess he got tired of ch.7 too.
@jeshkam3 ай бұрын
@@steve_cdh7324It was a joke, whoosh dude.
@MrUhwoody10 жыл бұрын
When TV's were still fine furniture.
@MrMenefrego13 жыл бұрын
amen!
@kingsknight72102 жыл бұрын
for real 😮 you would show that tv off
@kingsknight72102 жыл бұрын
i had a tv like that when i was a kid
@Synthematix7 ай бұрын
Fine furniture? lol plywood and particle board hammered together with rivets
@inkey213 жыл бұрын
I loved it back when TV sets were like a nce piece of furniture....wood cabinets, Now a TV is just another appliance
@karenroy9045 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. When I got married in 1985, I had a floor model console tv like that. It was like a piece of furniture back then.
@TheVCRTimeMachine5 жыл бұрын
I would love to watch some old Christmas specials (with the original commercials) on this set.
@yonkel4 жыл бұрын
Amazing condition! Thank you for posting! I believe this model was our very first color set in 1970. A few years later, we discovered we could change the channels randomly by jingling the change in our pockets! Drove our dad crazy. Memories. :)
@42NORRIS2 жыл бұрын
Nice touch! Showing 1970 programs on a 1970 television.
@drh468314 жыл бұрын
I got it from a friend who saved it at the last minutes of an estate sale, otherwise it would have been junked. There are a good number of collectors that like sets like this, this set can fetch $175+ to the right person.
@peterbigas.37738 жыл бұрын
I. remember. those. tv's. when. I. was. a. kid. back. in. the. 70's. time. goes. by
@grizzlyer22007 жыл бұрын
why.
@niffuM42054 жыл бұрын
Grizzly ER why. what. ? he. is. talking. normally.
@noskcaj18343 жыл бұрын
he. is. having. a. stroke. call. 911.
@jamesslick47903 жыл бұрын
@@noskcaj1834 Too. late. for. 911. 5+. Years. have. passed. 🤔 Likely. a. stoke. victim. would. have. passed. too. already.💀
From back when the neighbors would show up out of nowhere and ask if their kids could watch cartoons with your kids and burgers were served and some soda, them Pepsi cans that looked like a hand grenade, and everyone would get along just fine...
@rsattahip6 жыл бұрын
Those were a joy to work on, put the set on its side, pull out the bottom plate and you could access all the components. Zenith televisions really were the best back then.
@larryshaver35686 жыл бұрын
20 years later they came up with a "light sentry" which corrected the overdriven crt issue by adjusting the brightness automatically so the contrast didn't require much if any adjustment. i still have that tv
@simorrison6409 Жыл бұрын
Wow I miss those days as a kid. "I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company, that's the real thing..." RIP 70's.
@ebayerr3 жыл бұрын
We got our first color tv in 1968 when I was 10 years old. It was a 25" RCA console without remote. We had been watching a 13 inch black and white. Man.It was like beig at the theater. We got to see the "Wonderful World of Disney" in color!
@merfwriter13 жыл бұрын
Aww, it's like going back in time. i feel like i was transported back to the early 1970s. i saw the same program on YT but this makes it feel real.
@MetalSalvation5 жыл бұрын
I have a 90's TV that I like a lot, great picture and color...I just wish it had that 70's/80's wooden cabinet frame.
@RadioHamGuy13 жыл бұрын
The weather guy mentioned "no Skylab passes" for some time, I can remember going outside and watching the Skylab space station pass overhead very well. It was a very big deal at the time and it was common for weather guys to announce when the passes would be so you could go out and watch for it!
@summer2010570713 жыл бұрын
The beauty of a set like this is that they fit in very nicely with any living room that has nice solid wood furniture. Put a small cloth on the top of it and you can use it as a table for putting your family pictures on.
@Mikej15929 жыл бұрын
anyway, this set reminds me of my grandmothers set, an RCA color non remote set. She had it till she passed in 1996. the color went all purple but it still worked, I sold it with the house. I wanted to convert it into a digital set but no money at the time. I grew up watching these type of TV's back in the 1970's when this was top of the line. This being a remote set probably means it originally cost a bloody fortune. Such nostalgia.
@gsnfan13 жыл бұрын
It's a beautiful color TV set.
@Pugslee314 жыл бұрын
It would be awsome to watch TV on one of those old sets.
@TheCRTProductions9 жыл бұрын
This is a very nice set, boy, if they still made them like this then China would be out of business- they just don't stop working! If they do they are easily repairable (as opposed to trying to fix a printed circuit board in a flat screen). Great demonstration video.
@kkteutsch64162 жыл бұрын
The oled panels will be no repairable, since electronics and pictute panels will be integrated...
@AltRockLover9 жыл бұрын
Love it! So does this TV only pick up 70's channels?! I'm pretty sure we had an "Admiral" color tv back then.
@VideoAmateurLuxembourg5 жыл бұрын
I have a 1996 CRT Philips with contrast set to maximum. I use it daily and it still works.
@Bacon7666 Жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid in the 80s I used to watch Saturday cartoons.sometimes we had to give it a few palm hits to the tv at the top so it would snap out of the black out trance.😄
@jerrykautz65726 жыл бұрын
Excellent, takes me back to when I was a kid. I love it.
@inkey213 жыл бұрын
@nakayle LOL.....i remember tubes getting so hot in a set that it heated the room....and also gave off this wonderful aroma of burning electronics and burning wood cabinet (which was normal). That heavenly pre 1980s TV smell
@debbutcher90876 жыл бұрын
Real nice television set. I'm from the Chicago area and watched alot of channel 44 back in the early 70s on a television similar to that one.
@sammee660210 жыл бұрын
Weather forecasting really has improved since then.
@newldchappell110 жыл бұрын
So have hairstyles. lol
@sammee660210 жыл бұрын
Liked!
@themovietheatre14 жыл бұрын
I do like the way of feeding the 1970 TV with 1970's era programming from your laptop.
@nini19578 жыл бұрын
I wish I had one of these again. I miss watching in black and white!
@KevinPiland5 жыл бұрын
I like black and white TV’s but not when it comes to video games.
@larryshaver35689 жыл бұрын
that broadcast occurred shortly after WLS-TV started transmitting from sears tower
@nakayle13 жыл бұрын
Very clean looking set inside. I had a 1969 Zenith with the space command. It had more tubes because only the IF strip was transistorized. Before that had a 1964 RCA 21" round-CRT with a CTC-15 chassis- all tubes except LV rect. Think this was the last year of the round-CRTs. It also had the 6BK4 HV regulator tube that was later banned for putting out x-rays. In my mom' attic is a 1949 10" round-CRT Philco with a bad flyback-xmfr- no longer available so can't be repaired.
@steveomusicman66453 жыл бұрын
Dr. H Thanks for the tour of the set!
@pcno28327 жыл бұрын
2:54 One thing I really miss from that era were the holders or compartments that they used to provide for all the accessories like remote controls, spindles, and 45 adapters. Without places to put all that stuff, it inevitably gets lost when the set goes unused for a while, and usually isn't found until the set has changed hands. I think the end of that started with late 1960s stereos, which were trying, for better or worse, to seem as much like higher-end components (with their piecemeal approach to convenience) as possible, then spread to everything else. Now, nearly everything has a remote control and almost none have any place to store it.
@sallygomez87994 жыл бұрын
Back when kids were the remote control!
@MultiTechnicss9 жыл бұрын
Nice set.. I also had the same chassis on my old 171 Zenith solid state..
@Chummy57C10 жыл бұрын
Wondering if and hoping it's a "fine night in ole chi town" tonight! Really terrific video! Thanks for producing and sharing this with us.
@thecooldude999912 жыл бұрын
gotta love that 70's haircut.
@Captain_Char5 жыл бұрын
that set had a very quick warm up
@tuuexx12 жыл бұрын
these sets ROCK....as a small boy,we couldnt afford a color set. when i got my first jobs,in the early 80,s,i sought out those tv,s we didnt have. my FAVE was this set,or one very close-it had space command,and the other one,also much like this but with the ZENITH ZOOM !
@sonofsoma5 жыл бұрын
OMG.. Grew up in the Chicago 'burbs with a similar Zenith Console with a "Command Control" remote. Will always remember how the jingle (sound) of house keys or the tags on the dog's collar would sometimes change the channel on us.
@jasonthejawman54426 жыл бұрын
Zenith made quality Tv's no modern flat screen be playing like the zenith will
@micronut60822 жыл бұрын
That's a beautiful set We had one in our family room
@deltaray313 жыл бұрын
Oh man the memories of being a child with one of these. Probably the color gain was actually more messed with by kids like me. Sorry.
@Trance8815 жыл бұрын
Dang! So many adjustments on that TV! Where did you get that video looks like maybe 1974??
@fluffymacaw9332 жыл бұрын
I wish they made tvs like this still, just without using vacuum tubes
@BETTERWORLDSGT4 жыл бұрын
This is a nice one. I see it was still being made with Tubes I think that time must have been about the end of Tube Models.. We had a 1957 floor model Magnavox B&W TV, That had Tubes. We didn't have Color till 1975. Got an FM Radio in 1972 and that was a real big deal.
@audubon542515 жыл бұрын
Nice set - I like the styling on this one.
@retrochad15 жыл бұрын
Looks great! They seemed to be more "in-depth" with the news and weather back then.
@jomarz18283 жыл бұрын
Back when your dad would bring that TV home and the whole neighborhood knew about it the next day...lol
@stephengreene18562 жыл бұрын
Space Command Control.... AWESOME!!
@crist67mustang Жыл бұрын
You turned off just in the moment when he'd gonna say Chicago's news. 😋 Watching 1970 television in November 2022, here in Santiago, Chile SouthAmerica.
@Bruh..669Ай бұрын
Jesus the inside of that tv looks like it would be a control module for a space shuttle, and yet its still less powerful than a modern day calculator, truly insane
@nakayle13 жыл бұрын
People have forgotten how amazing tubes are. It is completely possible to build an working analog TV set without any transistors, IC-chips or solid state components at all. Even the silicon rectifiers can be replaced with 5U4 tubes! Besides being EMP resistant they are much prettier than dark drab chips and can even help heat your house in the winter thereby saving you money on heating bills.
@kraio-sfu4 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful television set!
@TheFRiNgEguitars14 жыл бұрын
Did I see a Grundig radio in the background? :-)
@mcm7305 жыл бұрын
How does one get reception for an old set like this. I have one I’d love to fix up, make a great conversation piece or man cave set,
@jamesslick47903 жыл бұрын
There are ATSC to NTSC converters to receive current broadcast stations. Likewise you could get an HDMI to Composite adapter and an RF Modulator (Or use a VCR as the Modulator). A lot of cable TV boxes STILL put out NTSC (old school signals.) There's lots of options out there.
@jamesslick47903 жыл бұрын
I had a Zenith console of similar vintage (had the same "$ervice $aver Chassis" logo and the same "ad" for Zenith antennas (antennae? LOL.), But it was B&W. It had to have been among the last wood cabinet "floor model" B&W sets.
@whydidtheballooneatthefox2822 жыл бұрын
I need one of these! :)
@albrokenomoney2127 Жыл бұрын
What a beauty.
@123demaio11 жыл бұрын
great set this is there first hi bred set. by 73 they started using tripplers and focus deviders that caused problems\ the set had a focus resistor that was carbon and would open up. This was the best set they ever built
@larryshaver35685 жыл бұрын
I am pleasantly surprised by how good the color still is
@GaryNolt14 жыл бұрын
My grandparents had a tv like this.We would go to their house to watch the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade.We called the remote the clicker because it would click when you canged the channel.
@yaboilemonboi52233 жыл бұрын
I thinks it’s my dream that when I get older- you know those people who like an era so much they live there life like there in that era? I wanna do that but I want to live in the 70s
@MattcitoOficial2 жыл бұрын
I would have this tv on my living room and a 50s styled kitchen lol and some 80s stuff I'm just 13 and i'm getting a cassette player soon
@98523236 жыл бұрын
Space command. I died! Lol 😂
@KLM81712 жыл бұрын
Mine has the space command remote as well. I remember those tabs inside the set. You would turn them one direction and with the remote, it would skip that channel with the remote. The remote has 4 buttons, channel up, channel down, volume/off and a mute. If you muted the tv, you could control the hue control with the channel buttons. You had three levels of volume and on the 4th push, it would turn the set off.
@walleyrt6913 жыл бұрын
I remember these like yesterday when I was young.Can you still get parts for these old 60s and 70s sets?
@drh468315 жыл бұрын
Yep, this is the same cabinet as the one I repaired but its a year older. I did sell that one on ebay.
@claudehauper76293 жыл бұрын
I see lots of comments about how TVs were once nice pieces of furniture. If you still desire that look, buy a nice oak or cherry entertainment cabinet for your flatscreen. You might have to settle for a slightly smaller TV in so doing, but most nowadays will house up to 55” sets, which is more than double the size of the 25” CRTs most of us grew up with.
@TheCRTman11 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@lawrencecausion88077 жыл бұрын
I love history
@kevinpatrick44084 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to see how people watched TV back then.
@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste30104 жыл бұрын
Kevin Patrick together.
@DTVDragonsTelevisionRevised5 жыл бұрын
2019?
@Davids-fb9ub4 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how back then people worked what they got technology wise to achieve the same results that we have today...looking back. Meaning no HD...no 1000 channels. It was analog and no digital to produce the same result...."broadcasting"
@sisco03049 жыл бұрын
We used to have a old set like this one kind of it would make a cracking noise when it was off we use to say it was my dead grandpa coming to visit my dad from the other side
@deltaray313 жыл бұрын
Wow. Awesome video. For once I really don't mind that someone is taking a video of a video on their TV. ;-)
@Grymmorgan13 жыл бұрын
DOOOOD!!! Driving a '70s Zenith with a LAPTOP!!! You rawk the KNOWN GALAXY!!! 8^D Remember the commercials when Zenith's System III came out? The solid state panels floating out of the service drawer like something from Star Trek? Man, I was like, "we live in the FUUUUUTURE!!!" x^D
@ElectricWizard45411 жыл бұрын
watching about a 1970 tv on an iphone in 2013; whoda thunkit?
@coryshelby7307 жыл бұрын
ElectricWizard454 i'm watching a video about a 1970s zenith TV and I'm watching it on 1970s TV using a adapter
@OPTIONALWATCH11 жыл бұрын
Hey drh, thanks for uploading and sharing :-)
@miguelperez-gb5kr5 жыл бұрын
i love ABC 7 Chicago news including top story and weather
@aussiejinjo6 жыл бұрын
its a beauty
@ThomasWoolum10 жыл бұрын
What did you do with this TV?
@vacuumbed13 жыл бұрын
Watching a 1970 TV on my 2019 iPhone.
@loveplane7373 жыл бұрын
watching that in my 2018 Oppo A71
@ernestconnell80874 жыл бұрын
That was a bit fancier than ours. We had a 1965 Zenith, with a four button remote control that worked with high pitch sound. I would change channels by jingling a chain from a magic set, which would piss off my old man.
@RoughJustice2k186 жыл бұрын
Tube colour TVs were not common in Australia before 1975. In 1970 almost every Aussie household had a B&W set.
@elifoust76645 жыл бұрын
We bought a SEARS from that year...can you tell me who manufacture it?
@sepitos19672 ай бұрын
Yup on my zenith console unit with uhf tuner
@GracielaBuenavida-dn1kzАй бұрын
Luego de los videos los conserva o los pone a la venta???
@luisreyes19634 жыл бұрын
This must have been WLS-TV before they had the famous news team of Joel Daly & Fahey Flynn. Also, nice vintage TV set.
@ege199314 жыл бұрын
yes how do u watch the old news?
@luisreyes19634 жыл бұрын
Magic. ✨
@traffety13 жыл бұрын
Space command remote control lol
@suzannewillis8175 жыл бұрын
How did you still get vintage news and weather on this beautiful retro tv?did you have some retro video or something?
@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste30104 жыл бұрын
Suzanne Willis hooked to laptop or vcr.
@suzannewillis8174 жыл бұрын
@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 this one sort of reminds me of one of the two we used to have when I was a kid.both had very beautiful wood grain and one had wooden legs and the other was low to the floor but they both were very wonderful I do miss them.the only wooden entertainment thing we had left was a rca stereo record player with a 8- track on it.at the time the only thing that worked on it was the radio but it was ok even if it was the only thing that really worked we still loved it.i would had to say this had to be a product of the 1970's like the tv's but I don't know what years I was way to little.but than Florence came along and did damage to our house and a lot of things had to be tossed away along with that stereo ,water had got all over it and had swelled the door on it shut locking it in place.I'm pretty sure that it didn't work anymore and we couldn't stay there until whenever if our house gets fixed like a lot of others who were still waiting for their houses to get fixed.i don't even know if it'll ever be fixed.but one of the hardest things I had to do was take that stereo and push it out of the door in the garage with the rest of the other ruin stuff it was very sad.it was like taking a piece of yourself and throwing yourself away with it.
@jasonpike26193 жыл бұрын
I was only 24 then, yeah, wish I could jump into the TV Time Machine.
@123demaio14 жыл бұрын
easy set to repair . set has the chroma module in it. Resistors use to open up in the focus curcuit. plays like new
@Tbolt1000TForLife12 жыл бұрын
i love old console tvs, i have a 1978 zenith, it needs to be fixed sadly
@rogeebundy6002 Жыл бұрын
Had a zenith Just like it
@creeke_alley3 жыл бұрын
Do you sell older tv"s also is it possible to mod them to accept HDMI though they are from the past? I am hoping to connect my stuff via HDMI and watch my shos on a 1968 Zenith In living color
@NorthRiverTV15 жыл бұрын
As always, a top notch presentation! I've seen the WLS-TV video here on KZbin, but I'm curious how you're displaying it on the TV directly from the laptop. I'd like to do the same with some of the vintage sets I have.