Remote control TV Retro commercial

[MrNativedude]

That's awesome. I wonder how much one of those would be today ,in full working condition ?

[DarthSchwartz]

:O i have to have it now!!!!!!!

[MarkoGrobarIzSrbije]

looks like its from fallout

[EMBpodcast]

my dad bought around 1960 the Zenith B&W portable TV with a remote control that had a single rocker-arm. Looking for either a picture of it or a video commercial for it. If you can help, pls advise here.

[agyvonne]

is that a hookah on the left ????????

[marzykjones]

can you imagine how cool that was then... i can only imagine the exitment that any family got when they got their first television set or first phone

[fjbutch]

I work at a recycling centre and you should see all the TVs that are only a few years old that come in....throw away sets now...shame...

[visor109]

He kinda sounds like "Kitt" from "Knight Rider".

[billpage]

cool

[ittelgimaf]

@4:17 it sounds like he is saying "In ass ending order" instead of "ascending order"

[AMPDxUPxProductions]

I cant wait, im guessing it will be out holidays of 2013

[psiclone35]

i wonder ,how much this kinda of television,cost back then,it had to be,a mint,with a bad ass remote control. Probably have to get a second mortgage,on your house.

[HUTINAK]

@psiclone35 Equivalent to a 60 inch Plasma

[RisingDampChamp]

"It wont be clean when my husband discovers the porn channels..."

lol

[valerock667]

beautiful. I wonder if in 50 years our LCD's tv commercials would look like that!

[LetsPlayStarcraft]

When did this come out?

[Troypodiopsyndrome]

My God, it's beautiful.

[ETericET]

I can't get over the funny shape the screen is.

[DarthKreeg]

Remote controls were pretty useless back then considering there were at most 4 channels to watch,abc cbs nbc and maybe a local channel.

[vangard213]

This was the beginning of lazy americans LOL

[21usarmy21]

thats pretty sweet im going to but one and scrap my 72 inch flat lol naw honestly this is pretty cool

[xmaddict]

You know they had to have alot of mini motors in the TV to change the settings since they couldn't be controlled by a micro controller.

[xmaddict]

I've noticed people were smarter back then. I still want this TV!

[xmaddict]

The narrator sounds like Maxwell smart.

[esheep4]

and thus started ware is the controller who had it last!

[Trilby91]

Making americans lazier With ease ;)

[stangcolbra]

This remote used sound for transmitting to the receiver

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@stangcolbra There wasn't any infrared technology using sophisticated data packets back then, it was all very simple to design and implement. Computer technology didn't make it's way into everyday items until the 1980s.

[yoodledoodle14]

Whoa! I wish everyone in the world could afford one- Oh well.

[ehurtx]

just don't drop that on you foot!

[Mattgotsoul]

Whens it out? Cannot seem to find a pre order anywhere, even Amazon!!

[DarthSchwartz]

OMG

[themexicanchingon]

nice televisor I like

[1203kitkat]

Is this an instructional video or a commercial?

[MQnoob]

@1203kitkat

Probably an instructional video.

Way too long to be a commercial.

[hebneh]

We had an RCA Victor color TV, purchased for Xmas 1963. It came with a similar remote which never worked very well, so we never used it. Only a handful of shows were in color then, and each time a new one started, or you changed channels, you had to manually re-adjust the "tint" for "natural skin tones". One extreme was purple, the other, green. One person at the TV would turn the knob and another, further away, would give advice for how far to go in either direction.

[ljuc]

wow... 4 speakers... and a brick with buttons)

[onionofdeath]

@o0Deano2k80o in 3D no less

[onionofdeath]

but could you actually dial channel 19 or did you have to hit the next button until you got there?

[Mikebmc]

@onionofdeath

Back in those days you only had maybe 5 or 6 channels to choose from. So really there was no need for a number pad. Just channel up/down buttons. That all changed by the late 70's early 80's when cable first started coming out. Originally with Cable you had a set top box sitting on top of your tv but then they started to make tv's with digital channels that went up to 100 channels. Then you wouldn't need a set top box anymore and so the remotes started having number pads.

[grenadier33]

No knobs or gadgets in sight! How'd they do that?

[jade1876]

tv commercials were long back them

[Capta1nBacon]

Well i am gonna sell my Wii for this :D

[MediaWatchDawg]

The "husband" may have bought it to keep the "wife" from "pushing" HIS buttons.

[HypnoToad72]

Not lost in time -- costs too much to add enough plastic to put the remote into...

Also, back in the day, at 60hz frequency, filming a TV in action would not properly capture the shown image, so they had to superimpose. Eventually, for filming tv and movies, sets had their frequencies changed to match filming so you wouldn't see picture distortion, but not back then. :) Even then, it's still cheaper to superimpose than tinker.

[HypnoToad72]

Wow, they sure loved to use adjectives back then... and does the announcer need to drink some prune juice to loosen up?

The advert could use some digital restoration - almost looks black and white due to the fading of the film over 45 years...

[halcaannen]

I want one now.

[Laobuddy]

lol at 5:03 It had a pilot light on it...I guess it was a gas TV

[DavidsTechShow101]

Well at least you wouldnt lose the remote

[karinablacktie]

What's with the hookah sitting next to the tv?

[Honorsucks]

They thought them to be "stylish and hip"

[b6gm6n]

why didn't they actually show you it in action, rather than special effects?

[ferrellhoust]

RCA should have worked better on the star. My five year old could have made a better looking one.

[ferrellhoust]

At least they had a place for the remote. Good idea.

[dashwarts]

Yeah... Whatever happened to remote holsters? This TV had the tray, NEC's card-remote TVs had a slot on the front, and Sony's XX41R Series had a holster on the side... It's now been lost to time.

[1schwererziehbar1]

again RCA Victor sets the standard .

chew on this, Apple !!

[frankmushy]

outstanding!!!!!

[Captmiloman]

How many channels did that thing go up to? I'm guessing 13.

[chrisman737]

Back in the 1960's, probably. But, of course, not all those channels would be taken. So the TV I grew up with at home (late 1960's) had 13 channels, but we got only three stations with it.

[gameonline13]

I'm getting this tv for my birthday present hahaha

[mubd1234]

He was right about it being the greatest advance in TV since colour. I can't live without a remote!

[shell1959]

I want one too!!!!....Simple to use. I don't even know what 90% of the buttons on my remote control do.

[125or200px]

WOW a reomte tv,and this is from 1961,which was about 10 years before we even had a tv.

[rockyraccoon1979]

They sure did put alot of quality and detail into the old sets plus they were so easy to repair, you could do it yourself. 9 times out of 10 it was just a blown tube. Pop another one in and you were good to go. Old tv's were actually made like fine furniture - unlike this new disposable stuff of today

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@rockyraccoon1979 The newest of the new TVs, at least the ones with the newest of the new designs, don't even have anything that can be opened with a screwdriver. The one thin peice of plastic is just super super glued, or melted to the other thin peice of plastic, which is actually nothing more than a thin and brittle printed circuit board inside. Some of them have virtually no buttons, just hypersensitive heat detectors and a mostly touchscreen remote control.

[marzykjones]

@rockyraccoon1979 that's because they were big as furniture... they used to have public phones they came with rain shelters too... now we gotta deal with these crappy cell phones

[saintangerinc]

@rockyraccoon1979 true today we call them chinese boobytraps!

[Lazlo319]

Imagine seeing this commercial today...

SOO LONG!!!

[DavidsTechShow101]

I think it was for like a trade show

[thecoolconejoman]

now you can switch your choice of Brain washing programming for your Couch! yay!! now we offer brainwashing in High Difinition Yay!

[purple82]

Did this commercial actually air on tv back then? I mean, it's nearly 6 minutes long.

[beedoe51]

GREAT POST! Very funny. Love her outfit!!

[zacharyt1122]

Wow, complicated.

[slydawg221]

that is the longest commercial i've ever seen! what year is it from?

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@slydawg221 1961. It says so on the title.

[M1cR0S0fT4Ev3r]

Do I need a steam engine to run that?

[usbiker133t]

jesus does that thing run on gas or what?

[usbiker133t]

Lol wood...

[SweetZyrah]

this makes me laugh

nyahahahha

[gavincurtis]

Nice symmetry in the design. The remote when stored in the hidden drawer looks identical to the conventional controls at the right.

Well thought out. :)

[alexaychuy]

omg! i want one!

[zx1357]

Waw! I gotta get me one of those!

[Chiclette60]

Whats with the Turkish water pipe next to the TV? Where is the bowl of Doritos?

[StarWarsContest]

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