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Uploaded by on Feb 27, 2008

Vintage zenith TV from 1960 with space command 300 remote control. Receiving local chicago broadcasts. After watching this video, the TV looks like it could go for a touchup on the vertical linearity!

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  • I grew up watching one of these and would get very scared when dad put on Outer Limits.

  • i want one of these

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  • @EMBpodcast HAHA LOL GOOD OLD ZENITH REMOTES! i want to interfere with anothers tv

  • This must be one of the very first remote controlled TVs. I'd LOVE to know when the VERY first colour broad cast was & where in the world this took place. I suspect it may have been in the USA for some reason.

  • I used to have an almost identical TV when I was young. It didn't have the Space Command remote, though. It did have a wired remote that plugged in the back of the set, and a perfect picture. I didn't have a choice of what to watch on it as most of the stations where I live are UHF, and my TV didn't have that, so I was stuck with channel 13, or snow, until I got a VCR.

  • how much is one worth today?

  • My dad purchased this exact set for his bedroom back in Brooklyn, NY in 1960. I once pointed the remote out the bedroom window and later on heard stories of a lady living across Ocean Parkway in an apt building complaining that her TV would change channels all by itself. She owned a Zenith like this one! haha

  • Very interesting that Chicago had 5 VHF stations, most midwest cities had only 3

  • @drh4683 I forgot how good Zenith tv's used to be thi one looks beautiful even in black and white!

  • @willdav713 true if you don't mind a separate box. Personally, i'd use a micro-cable box or tivo. I've got tivos hooked to both my tvs.

  • @LordOrwell2 Or you could hookup a VCR to it, and hook the VCR to Cable. If the set had UHF and VHF you could buy a 2 way splitter and 2 transformers and hook those up in the respective VHF and UHF ports and get up to 81 channels. I did that once.

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