Oh, and besides Kenmore, Silvertone Sears also had the "Homart" brand. I think I saw that brand once on a Sears central air unit and maybe some outdoor lawn equipment sometime. I think it faded away in the mid 60's when they started to brand these items as just Sears.
I remember the MGA brand before it became Mitsubishi. A smaller television only store in the mall sold those. Usually they were large screen projection televisions.
I only knew one person with one. A guy I used to fly with. We were talking about televisions one day and he said he bought an MGA because he felt it was a good deal for what you got.
A guy that lived down the street from my uncle had a Heathkit Color TV. He built it as part of a electronics night school he was taking. He had it installed in the wall in his den. My uncle said it had a fantastic picture on it, but I never got to see it. I kept asking if we could go down there to see it but my aunt said you can't go visit people just to see their television set. Why the people would think I am strange or something. Later Zenith was bought by Goldstar, not Samsung as I mentioned earlier. Zenith also bought out Heathkit and closed them down.
Zenith also was the company that developed MTS stereo broadcasting for television as well as the HDTV standard for broadcasting in the U.S. before LG acquired them.
My sister told me my parents bought a VCR shortly before they both passed. She said that they unboxed it and put it on top of the television but could never
figure out how to connect it or use it. I was married at the time living across the country from them and didn't get home very often. Had I known, I probably would have made the trip to hook it up for them.
I started seeing Sony sets in the late 70's and early 80's. They did get a great picture. I do remember someone having a 19" Sony color set and the screen was somewhat of a cylindrical shape. I thought that was odd.
Does anyone remember those far out looking ultra modern Zenith and RCA sets that came out in the early 80's? Both were full sized consoles that looked like something out of the future? The Zenith sat on a pedestal and was silver and somewhat crescent shaped.
Here is a photo of an RCA 2000 set from 1969. Notice how those black bars stick out quite a way between the screen and the speakers? I wonder why they did that?
