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Old 5th Oct 2018, 2:29 pm   #1
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When I was on holiday in New Orleans 10 years ago the set in the attached picture was in my room.

Even then it was a bit of a relic, but I'm guessing that was intentional to stop people from removing it.

I stayed in a few other places but the sets there were more modern & not really worth taking photos of.

Apart from seeing it's a Zenith I've no idea what model, I'm not sure if there is anyone here who is good at identifying American TVs.
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Old 5th Oct 2018, 4:32 pm   #2
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Last of the real Zeniths? Brand name is owned by LG.

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Old 5th Oct 2018, 5:32 pm   #3
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The set looks like it dates from the mid 80's, if that is any help?

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A bit of a curio, that one. By the time those Flatter Squarer Tubes came out, almost all the sets were cased in black plastic. A bit odd to see the (faux) wood on such a set.
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Looks very similar to this one:
http://www.visualalchemy.tv/1988_20_zenith_2023w

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Well spotted Fivos.

American sets always looked very different to those we had. I usually find them hideous, but that Zenith is rather stylish.

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I remember thinking was odd that large American sets still had rotary tuners long after they were only to be found on small portables here.
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With the number of channels available in some parts of the US a set with 4 or 6 buttons would have been entirely useless - it wasn't until the arrival of electronic channel selectors with 'virtual' buttons - up to 99 (100 if you count 00) with a 2 digit display could the rotary tuner be abandoned - although they continued to appear on low end sets for many years

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Yes I was thinking that was the case.
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I remember thinking was odd that large American sets still had rotary tuners long after they were only to be found on small portables here.
And many early video recorders.

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