On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:38:22 -0700 (PDT), John-Del
wrote:

On Friday, September 27, 2013 9:41:54 PM UTC-4, William Sommerwerck wrote:


You've never seen a '70s RCA set? Brown was about the only color it /could/

produce (along with some blues and yellows, if I recall correctly).

You don't recall correctly...

RCA color TVs were always the most accurate, with a single exception: the CTC38 (I'm pretty sure about the number, that was over 40 years ago) was a low end toilet made for two years for big stores and buying groups and had a tube lineup distinctly different from the better models, and they were made in the 60s not 70s. By 1971, RCA was running the extremely accurate and reliable XL100, or the mostly transistorized hybrid XL (sweep tubes only), which also was an excellent performer.

Mid 60s Zeniths were known for crappy color as they aged, but would respond well to replacing the demodulator transformers and doing a full color alignment.
The CTC38s were made from 1969 through 1970. The color demodulator
had a wide angle in the flesh tone area so flesh tones looked
"natural" even if the tint shifted slightly. Yellows were reproduced
as orange because of this feature. The solid state set in 1971,
except for the hv rectifier, was the CTC40. It wasn't like the
following XL100 line because the chassis wasn't modular. Some had an
issue with the color killer circuit killing the color on a normal
color signal. Chuck