1975 Motorola Quasar TV

This was my first time taking the back off of the TV...

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• 1975
• motorola
• quasar
• vintage
• tv
• quality
• cleanup
• convergence
• alignment

[SuperSmasher97]

awesome tv but why is the video at the beginning black and white?

[spatsbear2]

@SuperSmasher97 It is in color.

[peugteobike]

Does this tv have few tubes

[spatsbear2]

100% Solid State

[drh4683]

This is such a neat set. Does the back cover say Motorola of Franklin park, or does this one say Matsushita of Franklin park? It appears to have all motorola parts. The buyout took place in '74, so this is like a transition set. Did you see a motorola date code stamped anywhere on the chassis? Curious what month it was built.

[spatsbear2]

It actually says Motorola of Franklin Park, and January 1975.

I was wondering about how long the Matsushita transition fully took over.

[Curtrx7]

I have this very same TV. I bought it for $8 at a yard sale. I didn't even have to clean it either! I bought it to rip out all the guts and install a flatscreen, but the picture was so good I hate to do that. I'm beginning to have trouble keeping the vertical hold in sync. The whole works in a drawer thing blows my mind! I don't need to fix it, since I have a new 32" flatscreen, but I love anything old. And I love to learn how to repair things I've never repaired before.

[hhoforvolts]

One problem with these excellent sets was the picture tubes would go soft in about 2 weeks. Replacement of the CRT would last another two weeks. The problem was the CRT filament was supplied with 5.5 volts, not 6.3 volts. This was true for the full production run, as one one of their future largest dealers, I wasn't at that time so "you know not invented here deal"

Mr. Quasar

Flagstaff Az.

[ridgerunner721601]

Ha ha...I was watching this clip just now and my little gray and white cat, Sophie is on my lap and excited because there was a cat meowing in the background while this was playing. LOL

[toyotaman1988]

would anybody now how much a Quasar portable tv made in october 1980 be worth ...cause i dont know ...it would be appricaited (:

[mlaechel]

I just watched the 1974 Quasar ad. I remember the woman singing "Quasar" at the end of the ad from back in the 70s when I was with my dad at work in 1974 at his office when a tv was on. Great example of 70s tech, man! Amazing, isnt it, how quickly technology races ahead. Look at a new Iphone 4, or a new flat screen tv, or even the new 3D flat screen tvs. Looking at the pull out drawer is like going into a Radio Shack in the 70s when it was all part bins!

[KuyaBillRomjue]

This is too cool! We had a Quasar Motorola works in a drawer when I was a kid. Ours was a 1975 model, huge cabinet, really nice piece of furniture as well as an awesome TV set.

[SeeburgMusic]

Very informative, but that is the ugliest TV I have ever seen! It was made so much more attractive by the disco music blaring over your commentary. The external speaker demo was unnecessary, though.

[storrs19]

I hope kitty cat helped you fix the television :) Nice set here. My friends's grandparents had one of these and when it finally died they just sat a 19 inch portable on top of it as it was to heavy to move out to the curb for the garbage truck, LOL!

[SuperSmasher97]

@spatsbear2 oh...Somehow it looked like black and white.Where do you get all these nice TVs?The only time a saw a console TV in real was like a half yeah ago!In germany these are very rare.