1978 Zenith 60th Birthday Sale commercial

[navapy]

Zenith back then was like the Mercedes of t.v

[confuse]

i would have the one at the back

[mrceleb2006]

The quality goes in before the name goes on!

[modspell]

I have the model seen at :16, except mine is from 1975. I've dumped hundreds into it and it does work, in fact I just watched it tonight.

[geterdonein01]

Our mid 80s 27" Zenith System 3's power supply blew out just 3 days ago... im going to miss that old beast...

[eurodance1979]

I have a Zenith TV in perfect condition I could tell which is real value despite the years its sound system is impressive

[paradiseshow1988]

We had a floor model like that until about six years ago. I was so tired of looking at it then that I was thrilled when it finally died. Now I want another one just like it!

[MattTheSaiyan]

I want one of these to play my Atari on!

[SuperSmasher97]

awesome tv sets!!!!

[harley1450000]

damn stuff was not cheap back then,

[Upperstrom]

My dad would always buy Zenith TVs. They looked like a piece of furniture and were as heavy as an iron lung. Quality stuff! The last floor model he had lasted for close to 25 years. I don't remember him having any problems with it.

[SuperSmasher97]

@Upperstrom zenith console tvs are always awesome!

[inkey2]

I just love those old, heavy, ball buster console sets from the old days.....back when a TV set was supposed to look like a fine piece of furniture. You could place a table lamp on top, vase or framed photos of grandchildren etc

[chaz3345]

how much would one be worth now?

[VO1GXG]

@chaz3345

10 bucks

[modspell]

@VO1GXG YES, that's what I paid for 1975 System 3 Avanti! Found it on ebay, it came out of an old motel.

[68lincoln]

1979 was about the last year that Zenith made their real quality sets in the USA. I believe they started contracting them out to some offshore Asian crap outfit in 1980 although the Zenith name remained on the set until the early 90s.

[coololds85]

I love the old Zenith tv's they look like a wooden china closet I use to have a 1973 Zenith Color Chromacolor and than I had a 1980 Zenith advanced system 3 after that my parents bought a 1986 Zenith advanced system 3 that looks modern with the wooden top and sides with a glass screen I loved the 1980 it had to go cause i bought a new 52 inch mitsubishi big tv I use to have two wooden tvs it was the 80 zenith and the 86 zenith I have now i will make a video of the 86

[MADDOG6400]

Zenith is an AWESOME BRAND and has always been a brand for us when I was a kid!! I LOVE Zenith!!

We used to have a Black and White Zenith TV as well as a Zenith Console TV! The B&W lasted 39 years and the console lasted 16 years WITHOUT ANY REPAIR!

I find it sad that there's no Zenith's available. Even though LG is a Zenith, I'd prefer to see the name on it. :'( ahh good times.

[JustinsDIY]

we used to have a zenith

[TheSecretChannel]

Quality.

[renofirvine]

#3unveiled-avanti model-i have the first one(1971)-christina ricci watches the watergate hearings on one in 'the ice storm'

[unoriginalPerson42]

I like the curved console models, reminds me of the Las Vegas Hilton.

Their best features were:

Space Phone - speakerphone built into the TV

Zoom - magnified the center of the picture (and overdrove the deflection circuitry, making a failure more likely)

Their 80s TVs were pretty good for the time but their 25" and larger tubes from the 90s are indeed horrendous. I'd rather deal with Sony's crappy electrolytics than Zenith's dud tubes any day.

[CreativeCritisizm]

Best American sets at the time- Zenith, Magnavox, Sylvania,, second best, GE, Quasar, Philco, Curtis Mathis, the worst but way over rated- RCA colortrack.

[MusicMike1285]

my Great Aunt has a RCA Colortrack 2000and It's lasted her almost 25 years, and and still works

[mrceleb2006]

The quality goes in before the name goes on!

[eiugrad2006]

My mother has a Zenith VCR from the early 1980's and that thing still works! I hook it from time to time and it's great.

[eyeh8nbc]

Their VHS machines were made by JVC- I have a VHS Hi-Fi from 1987 that I won in a contest sponsored by MTV, it's still going, and it's been used as the playback device for most of my VHS-originated clips (this one was from Beta.)

[mokos23]

dang the old woodie tv's....

[NowhereMan1966]

I have a 1982 Zenith System 3, we bought it in early 1983, still in use as a daily watcher after 25+ years.

[bradhig]

I miss those big console tv's. We used to have a Heithkit one our dad built in the 1970s but it was problematic. He would fix it and it worked for several months then another problem would occur. The last problem it had was the screen went completey green and he decided not to mess with it anymore and tore it apart. They don't make console HDTV's do they?

[VaderNES]

You could make one out of fiberboard and an HD CRT TV, and the knobs from the set.

[EmersonCollie]

I'll pick the last one he unwraps. In those days when you bought a Zenith set. You had something. Zenith wasn't worthy of it's name after mexico took over...

[springloadedchicken]

dude sorry,  zenith was POS and those wrappings were better! lmfao! remembers the pain i went through with zenith and their VHS machines.

[eyeh8cbs]

Well, I've got a Zenith VHS Hi-Fi (manufactured by JVC) from 1987 which still works great, though it doesn't get used nowadays nearly as much as it used to.

[Watcher3223]

Well, these Zenith sets are those made in the 1970s, when Zenith actually had quality to its name.

As for VHS decks, yeah, they were problematic ... if you bought Zenith models from the 1990s that were made by GoldStar (LG) in Korea.

If you bought a 1980s Zenith deck, it would just work without problems, being made by JVC and all.

[piplol2468]

i like the third one he unwraps

[ChristianWithNES]

I think I'm the only person who likes the design of late-70's TV sets. Cool Commercial.

[LynolsOffice]

I like them too, see the one he unwraps first? I have four.

[gli7utubeo]

I don't think they ever saw their 80th birthday.

[eyeh8cbs]

LG owns what's left of them now. Definitely not what they used to be. I had a 20-inch Zenith in 1992, which was when their stuff was made in Mexico, and it had an awful picture.

[mspysu79]

Yep 90's Zenith sets had the worst picture tubes of any TV's of the time, most didn't last 5 years. And yes LG is trying to breath some life into Zenith, but the damage has been done.

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@eyeh8cbs The Zenith brand name is still intact, I think with the exact same logo, but it's owned by a company that owns manufacturing plants in China and Mexico if I am not mistaken.

[FormerTVAddict]

LOL I remember we had a zenith console TV that we got in the late 70's... It looked a LOT like the second one he opened, fake drawers and all... Except we had the 2 knobs for VHF and UHF and not the vertical strip for the channels. I wish they still made TVs like these today.

[wilkes85]

Ya those fake drawers are just overkill.

[nomadcowatbk]

TVs were so big in these days they were designed to be pieces of furniture

[wilkes85]

late '70s era TVs, especially the floor models, just look too elaborate. You'd end up staring at the TV rather than what's on the picture tube. Anyway, I like the 1960s era TVs, with the long skinny legs and the rounded-looking picture tube , ther style of the knobs, the cloth over the speaker, the walnut or mahogany [REAL] wood grain, and everything. Electronics started getting ugly in the late '70s, and even to this day, everything is butt-fucking-ugly.

[jefferyb304]

I Quite agree with you. When I get a bit better off I would like to buy electronics that can be concealed.

[jefferyb304]

i like the second one he unwrapped