I still have this exact Zenith Circle of Sound clock radio shown at the 0:21 mark. I still use it to this day in 2023 and it still works like new. Everything still works on it! 👌🏽 Zenith made some solid products back in the day for sure.
My grandparents had a Zenith television set, while my parents couldn't afford to buy a new television so my Grandparents had bought them a 1982 Zenith television set and made it a wonderful Christmas present in December 1982!☺
My grandparents had that TV, we had a slightly later version that looked the same except the dials were silver and were connected to lighted channel numbers to the left of them. It died in 1980 and my parents threw it out, but I always wish I could get another working one.
Un televisor a color en 1972 era un lujo en México que pocos se podían dar. Incluso conocí una familia que tenían un televisor de 21 pulgadas en blanco y negro con control remoto que adquirieron en los Estados Unidos, lo cual era una rareza en ese año 1972. Era un control remoto gordito, ruidoso y con pocos botones grandes, y se pasaban los canales uno por uno. La mayoría de la gente sólo podía comprar televisores blanco y negro de 14 y 21 pulgadas, y conectaban antenas aéreas exteriores lo más alto que podían para que esos aparatos captaran los canales.😊
my parents bought a Super Chromacolor when I was a kid, that damn thing broke a week after we bought it. we returned it for a Sony. that Sony lasted us until 2019.
I still have the clock radio that's featured in this commercial and I still use it to this day without any issues. This bad boy is pushing 50 years old and still works great. Lol
You're right. And notice how it said, "actual closed circuit TV picture" in the commercial? That's because if you tried to watch color TV over-the-air in downtown Boston in the early 1970's the picture would be ghosted, jumpy, unstable and the colors would constantly fade in and out and the tint would keep changing, even with a roof antenna. Those type of transmission problems weren't eliminated until cable came along in Boston during the 1980's.
Noticed they put a caption up on this ad saying "actual closed circuit picture". Was that because the "off air" picture received would often be poor in comparison and suffer from unstable colour and ghosting?
Even during the early days of black and white TV broadcasting transmission problems were a major impediment to picture quality. Ghosting was particular noticeable even on a B&W set. But then when color came along the problem got even worse. Ghosting was still bothersome on a color set but the way that the colors would shift and fade in and out as the signal varied was even more annoying. Getting a good outdoor antenna was a necessity once color came along as rabbit ears would cause too many reception issues. Even in the suburbs with an outdoor antenna reception could still be marginal but in the city getting good color reception was almost impossible. The problem never completely went away until cable came along. The early cable systems had the same channel line ups as over the air TV but people would still get cable just to eliminate all the transmission problems of trying to get a good and stable color picture to watch.
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I still have this exact Zenith Circle of Sound clock radio shown at the 0:21 mark. I still use it to this day in 2023 and it still works like new. Everything still works on it! 👌🏽 Zenith made some solid products back in the day for sure.
My grandparents had a Zenith television set, while my parents couldn't afford to buy a new television so my Grandparents had bought them a 1982 Zenith television set and made it a wonderful Christmas present in December 1982!☺
I'm pretty sure this is the exact Zenith 19" color TV my parents got circa 1972. It was our main TV all the way up to 1989.
My grandparents had that TV, we had a slightly later version that looked the same except the dials were silver and were connected to lighted channel numbers to the left of them. It died in 1980 and my parents threw it out, but I always wish I could get another working one.
Zenith was a great Television, much better than today's Television s !!
To say all that Zenith use to be a wholly American owned company.
The black matrix CRT was the new thing in color TV's in the early 70's!
I miss my old Zenith stereo, not top sound quality but for a kid it was great.
Un televisor a color en 1972 era un lujo en México que pocos se podían dar. Incluso conocí una familia que tenían un televisor de 21 pulgadas en blanco y negro con control remoto que adquirieron en los Estados Unidos, lo cual era una rareza en ese año 1972. Era un control remoto gordito, ruidoso y con pocos botones grandes, y se pasaban los canales uno por uno. La mayoría de la gente sólo podía comprar televisores blanco y negro de 14 y 21 pulgadas, y conectaban antenas aéreas exteriores lo más alto que podían para que esos aparatos captaran los canales.😊
my parents bought a Super Chromacolor when I was a kid, that damn thing broke a week after we bought it. we returned it for a Sony. that Sony lasted us until 2019.
I still have the clock radio that's featured in this commercial and I still use it to this day without any issues. This bad boy is pushing 50 years old and still works great. Lol
great adverts
Would have gladly owned a console stereo system from Zenith. Not cheap.
wow these are mint
I mean the quality of the video
Tremont St. Boston, MA in the video
You're right. And notice how it said, "actual closed circuit TV picture" in the commercial? That's because if you tried to watch color TV over-the-air in downtown Boston in the early 1970's the picture would be ghosted, jumpy, unstable and the colors would constantly fade in and out and the tint would keep changing, even with a roof antenna. Those type of transmission problems weren't eliminated until cable came along in Boston during the 1980's.
I have the clock radio but the clock no longer works but radio does
A 19-inch color picture?! Wow!!!
Strange how “Joni” never turns to the camera 🧐
Noticed they put a caption up on this ad saying "actual closed circuit picture". Was that because the "off air" picture received would often be poor in comparison and suffer from unstable colour and ghosting?
Even during the early days of black and white TV broadcasting transmission problems were a major impediment to picture quality. Ghosting was particular noticeable even on a B&W set. But then when color came along the problem got even worse. Ghosting was still bothersome on a color set but the way that the colors would shift and fade in and out as the signal varied was even more annoying. Getting a good outdoor antenna was a necessity once color came along as rabbit ears would cause too many reception issues. Even in the suburbs with an outdoor antenna reception could still be marginal but in the city getting good color reception was almost impossible. The problem never completely went away until cable came along. The early cable systems had the same channel line ups as over the air TV but people would still get cable just to eliminate all the transmission problems of trying to get a good and stable color picture to watch.
Interesting marketing for the era when watching this in retrospect of today... The marketers thought "Let's use colored people to sell our color TVs"
🤔😜 Seriously though, Zenith was one of the first radio makers to advertise in black publications dating all the way back to the 1940s!