Best and worst colour CRT's

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Originally Posted by Studio263

we had at least one Z719 (I think, it was a long time ago) which looked very similar (no PSU as you say and no tripler either, it had a huge overwind and a rectifier stick, why did they do a silly thing like that?) but used a 26" version of the Toshiba RIS tube (in-line but with two little convergence knobs at each side and a big key on the scan coils that looked like the opening thing you get on a corned beef tin). The set itself was a vast cabinet model that had a touch tuner and ultrasonic remote control. The particular example I had worked and the tube was good but there was no blue, I couldn't fix it at the time but looking back it is now painfully obvious that the matrixing chip had gone. What a waste, I never saw another one like it.

In my upinion Philips/Mullard tubes (20 ax) gave a much better picture than those Toshiba tubes. In the Luxor B1 you could get either a Toshiba or a Philips tube. The Philips tube gave excellent picture, the Toshiba was at best mediocre. I think the also used a this Toshiba tube in som 22" sets.