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NEW 1964 LINE OF ZENITH TELEVISION SETS
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Homer J Simpson:

steviefaux:
I had a Zenith badged 386sx. With I believe 2 or 4mb RAM. 10 or 20mb HDD. We couldn't afford anything else. Was in the 90s from the local computer store. I still, to this day, feel he ripped us off.
Sal Ammoniac:
Zenith was founded by a ham, Ralph Matthews, 9ZN, in 1918. The company name was originally ZN'th, a contraction of the founder's ham call sign, which soon became Zenith.
duckduck:
When they switched to the showroom I laughed. This is so different from the release of a new OLED TV from Samsung.

It was difficult to understand him. Seems like someone should come up with a ML /AI thing to clean up old audio and/or remove distortion (I am so not the right guy for it).

I loved that he showed the guts of one and pointed out that it had silicon rectification, not tube. Silicon's heyday was still to come. I remember going to a TV repair shop (remember those?) when I was a kid (1970s) and they had a vacuum tube tester on the counter so that the customers could test out their tubes. I think tubes must have been pretty much gone by then in consumer electronics. The Atari 2600 was out in '77 for Christ's sake. Don't know how my folks could afford US$199 for one of those damn things.

It's very much out of step with modern times how he kept on calling the viewers "gentlemen". It was amazing to hear him talk about manufacturing in the US (grumble grumble). A different age, for sure. Thank you for sharing.
free_electron:
This year we spent millions of dollars on research to improve picture quality.
Next year we will do the same for sound so you can actually understand what is being said.

Right now our sound is that recorded by a microphone that has a loose wire, a marble rolling around on its membrane, placed in front of  a concrete wall with behind the wall the speaker having a sock in his mouth and possibly duct-tape over his mouth
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