1957 RCA VICTOR PORTABLE TELEVISION SET MODEL 14-S-7070G TV XD65004
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Dating to 1957, this TV commercial promotes the RCA Victor Portable TV. This is also known as the Model 14-S-7070G television. It featured a "luggable" design with leather handle, 17" diagonal screen and a new picture tube that was smaller than previous models. It also had a telescoping antenna and a tuner that was promised to be less prone to interference. The set sold for $179.95, about $2k in today's dollars.
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Either that kid had super human strenght or that crt was hollowed out for the ad 😂
Right! Even our 1980's RCA-XL100 14" weighed a metric ton.
It’s Clark Kent when he was growing up.
Seriously, straight arming it up the stairs!
@@RazsterTW Well, At least the XL-100 was color! LOL.
$180 in '57 dollars is $2K now. You can get a higher end 17" laptop for that kind of cash now.
I have one of these and yes, it still works. I've never had any down time with it. My parents gave it to me so I could watch Star Trek in the 60s after they bought a seriously big Motorola TV console for the living room. They don't make them like that anymore. TVs now days barely make it past the 90 day warranty. And that kid hefting it like it was nothing, who is he, Clark Kent? That model is HEAVY!
No down time? Must of needed tubes over the years.
Kids did spend more time doing physical activities back then, so they would be stronger.
@@MrHurricaneFloyd It can still work with one of those set top boxes that transfer the digital signal. Unless I’m wrong back when tv made the transition to digital I bought one of those boxes at radio shack and even got a government rebate that made it almost free.
@@MrHurricaneFloyd Use it for classic videogames. The older game consoles were programmed and designed to work with these analog televisions.
@@sonicmastersword8080 oldER game consoles ? older than what ? What about the OLD game consoles ?? 🤔
That was an expensive TV back then...in glorious black and white, too.
With inflation, it works out to almost $2000 in 2023 dollars.
In 1965 when color was just starting, my dad bought an "Instant On" TV. It was B/W. But when you turned it on the screen came on right away (whoopee). I think it had a few transistor circuits, but there were still tubes in it. They got low power when the set was off so they'd heat up quickly.
A lot of shows switched to color over the next few years. I got to watch them in black & white. I still remember the NBC peacock announce that the following show is in living color. I saw that promo in greyscale. I would have preferred to wait a minute for a color screen.
I don’t remember them being that light back then even the so called portables that big
Yeah that kid ran up the stairs like he was carrying an ipad
They weren't light lol. CRTs, just by nature of their design are extremely heavy. Between the solid iron core and 1-3cm thick of copper windings around the flyback transformer, and the leaded glass that's necessary to shield the user from x-rays that CRTs produce as a result of how they work, they were inevitably, quite hefty devices. Even by 1990s standards, never mind 1950's. I always thought the TVs produce radiation thing was BS until I actually learned electrical engineer and physics. I don't like to assume knowledge, but I'm doing it for the sake of brevity so if you have questions feel free to ask:
The basis for how x-rays are produced in a TV is that when a charged particle undergoes acceleration. So, a charged particle in this case would be the electrons being fired at the TV's screen to generate the picture. And the acceleration occurs when the electrons are deflected by electromagnets in order to hit the desired spot on the TV's screen.
@@VoidHalo Dont forget the power transformer that weighed 10lbs all by itself lol
amazing
we've come along way since then...
Beatiful.❤
172$ in 1957 = 1856$ now 😱
Awesome tv 😁
Can I get the extended warranty?
Vaughn Monroe speaks for RCA Victor.
that was NOT Vaughn Monroe speaking in this commercial
Sounds like him!
Nope, if it had been Vaughn, he would have dropped the TV off of a stepladder and we would have heard it go BOOM!
RCA back to Brazil 😊😊😊
The voice over sounds like Claude Akins.
That tv was high tech in its day, adjusted for inflation around $1900. That's about what you would pay for top of the line tech today, like the top of the line smartphone or flat screen tv. Obviously the technology is not even comparable to today, but for the time was high end. It's interesting to see that when you take inflation into consideration, things really haven't changed as much as you would think. It's like a comparison i heard once about a 1oz gold coin from the 1880s that had a $10 face value, in 1880 that would buy you a really nice suit, and with the value of gold today, it would buy you a really nice suit at today's price point.
Adjusted to 2023, the low low price of $1942.71 !!!
Imagine it's "only" $1900.00
In 1989 I bought a 27" Sony for $800, which works out to about $1950 in today's dollars. Good luck lifting it with two hands, let alone one. Today that money buys an 85" LED flat screen, with some left over for your ISP and Netflix fees.
I don't think dad would like son running up the stairs with a $1900 TV...lol
@@marcc3516 Not to mention carrying that breast - I'm sure it was a lot heavier than what is suggested. Besides, the boy is carrying a prop 😂😂
I remember studying electronics to find out how CRT's worked and finding out about the evolution of valves and invention of phosphorescent dots which would allow allow for a picture to be projected on the screen by electrons which were deflected by magnetic fields .
At least it was possible to get an idea of how the tubes worked . But now these modern TV screens , I haven't got the faintest idea of what's going on . Oh well . 🙄
Do it come in 4k
Nope, it's a Analog Monochrome Cathode Ray Vacuum Tube. It had a One gun that displayed the TV telecast signals in black and white. Its resolution is the NTSC Format which was debuted by RCA in 1941. It had less than 525 scan lines with 30 frames per second. Color TV came out in 1954 also by RCA in the NTSC Format which had 3 electron guns which were Green, Blue and Red in the back of the CRT tube.
@@jonnyadkins6516 480, if even that! 525 was the PAL standard.
Oh OK😀. I know PAL Format uses 625 Horizontal scan lines with 25 frames per second driven into 50 hertz. NTSC uses 525 horizontal scan lines with 30 frames per second driven into 60 hertz. And the PAL and SECAM doesn't use tint control. NTSC uses Tint control.
Or $1,942.71 in today’s money…
By the way they were handling that TV set I bet it was stripped of its insides and was just a shell! Also $180 back in 1957 is $1936 in todays money. Thats alot!
And you had to pay extra for the aluminum foil to put on the antenna
A quickly typed $179.95 in an online inflation calculator. In 2023 dollars that's $1,943. That's one expensive 17" black and white TV. Don't drop it!