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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was looking for an original to restore but there are problems doing that:

  1. They are FULL of paper capacitors. All of which have to be replaced.

  2. Once you do that, the set is still black and white and has no modern inputs, coaxial and dipole only.

So in my research, I found a tiny company in Dousman, WI who bought the Philco Predicta license. Not sure if they are still making them, keep in mind this was all 25 years ago. Was $2,500 + freight shipping.

http://predictatv.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

God, they're so beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Another lemmy gold.

Thanks for allowing me to learn cathodic TV this old was still manufactured in the US in 2018.