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Philco Predicta Tandem-Put the set beside your chair
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paulg
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Like Lewyt...
The Predicta put Philco into bankruptcy.
Truly this was one of Philco's most fabulous designs - still admired to this day.
However the newly-designed picture tube was failure prone and their reputation was ruined.
Ford bought the company... and Philco-Ford was born.
I own Predictas, love them. HATE fixing them... as most old-school TV repairman will tell you. (I am one of the younger old-school TV repairmen...).
Actually I am looking at my Predicta right now in my den.
True story...
My Predicta was my "daily-driver" in my bedroom for years. It was reliable and fun to use. I knew one day that picture tube would tank.
Well, one day, while watching TV from my bed, the picture went completely white.
What to do?
You do what every TV repairman does...
You go downstairs, find a new picture-tube, replace it and continue watching your program.
And that is what I did....
Still works... some ten years later. But I DID use a Sylvania picture tube as a replacement.
The Predicta put Philco into bankruptcy.
Truly this was one of Philco's most fabulous designs - still admired to this day.
However the newly-designed picture tube was failure prone and their reputation was ruined.
Ford bought the company... and Philco-Ford was born.
I own Predictas, love them. HATE fixing them... as most old-school TV repairman will tell you. (I am one of the younger old-school TV repairmen...).
Actually I am looking at my Predicta right now in my den.
True story...
My Predicta was my "daily-driver" in my bedroom for years. It was reliable and fun to use. I knew one day that picture tube would tank.
Well, one day, while watching TV from my bed, the picture went completely white.
What to do?
You do what every TV repairman does...
You go downstairs, find a new picture-tube, replace it and continue watching your program.
And that is what I did....
Still works... some ten years later. But I DID use a Sylvania picture tube as a replacement.
cb123
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arh1953...
Your a bloody mind reader, or was it the Satan chair with its psychic vibe sabotaging my future Thread?! Man, I was going to post this when I got it fixed, but you beat me to the punch! That's OK, though...Great Commercial...strange, I was just watching it last night. arh1956, Thanks for posting it!
paulg, if you could, post some photos...THAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT!!!
The TV is in no ways up to snuff: There is no high voltage going to the CRT, and only a minimal hum coming from the speaker - only when your touching the volume control when it's turned to maximum.
Your a bloody mind reader, or was it the Satan chair with its psychic vibe sabotaging my future Thread?! Man, I was going to post this when I got it fixed, but you beat me to the punch! That's OK, though...Great Commercial...strange, I was just watching it last night. arh1956, Thanks for posting it!
paulg, if you could, post some photos...THAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT!!!
The TV is in no ways up to snuff: There is no high voltage going to the CRT, and only a minimal hum coming from the speaker - only when your touching the volume control when it's turned to maximum.
Sad and true, Paulg.....the Predicta ruined Philco. My friend Ken had one working one like cb123's set, he would have sold it to me for $148! He ended up with another one briefly, he was not a collector, and loses interest in everything quickly. I've seen one or two others in this area, one fully restored in the $300 neighborhood. My uncle Charles Henry worked for Philco, at the time I didn't care, I was too young to be interested. I just knew that Daddy bought our two Philco TVs because Charles worked for the company. I'd give anything if I could talk to him now. He must have been high up in the company, his wife, Gertrude, was a buyer for Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. One year after my parents returned from a trip there, they brought a car trunk load of phonograph records out of his garage to me. Some of them got destroyed during a hurricane here.
If that devil chair's evil comes down here to kill me, I swear I'll come back to haunt you, Mr. Cb123! All of your electronics will turn on you! LOL
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If that devil chair's evil comes down here to kill me, I swear I'll come back to haunt you, Mr. Cb123! All of your electronics will turn on you! LOL
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suckolux
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My aunt and uncle in Santa Rosa had one when I was little, it was amazing to see at the time.
vacbear58
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Predicta
One of the guys over in AW posted a CL ad for one of these in somewhere called Barrie - $650. its reply #2 in the thread so you need to scroll UP in the link
Al
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?57197_4#bott
One of the guys over in AW posted a CL ad for one of these in somewhere called Barrie - $650. its reply #2 in the thread so you need to scroll UP in the link
Al
http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?57197_4#bott
super-sweeper
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lol, my oldest TV is a JCPenney Solid-State....it's even BLACK-AND-WHITE! Maybe late 60s? Still works great, but the '86 KTV is still the daily driver, but the JCPenney set WAS featured in a VHS tape I did a while back!
Calem, your Predicta looks a lot better than some I've seen while exploring the New Vegas wasteland!
Calem, your Predicta looks a lot better than some I've seen while exploring the New Vegas wasteland!
aeoliandave
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Dang it, Alistair, Barrie is only 2.5 hours NW of me. That looks to be a museum quality set.
Mmmmmm....
There's no longer any analogue broadcasting hereabouts but it would be a treat connecting it to a small DVD player running The Outer Limits Collection.
Mmmmmm....
There's no longer any analogue broadcasting hereabouts but it would be a treat connecting it to a small DVD player running The Outer Limits Collection.
caligula
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That damn Satan chair scared the
%%%& out of me! At first I thought "oh no, it can't be Dennis the mennace!" It isn't.
%%%& out of me! At first I thought "oh no, it can't be Dennis the mennace!" It isn't.
We supposedly have a couple of UHF stations that broadcast
over the air. I can't find them. My Predicta friend was showing Flipper on his set. The Barrie set looks suspiciously like one that someone found in a Canadian hardware store recently, it had been on a high shelf since the store opened in 1959! I believe the post was on Videokarma.org. The Philco TV stereo combo in the AW.org site had the same face our newer Philco had, with the UHF port filled in with the disc.
over the air. I can't find them. My Predicta friend was showing Flipper on his set. The Barrie set looks suspiciously like one that someone found in a Canadian hardware store recently, it had been on a high shelf since the store opened in 1959! I believe the post was on Videokarma.org. The Philco TV stereo combo in the AW.org site had the same face our newer Philco had, with the UHF port filled in with the disc.
rugsucker
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Predicta
I have only seen 2 for sale at flea mkts/antique malls in the last 20 years and know of one in a local massive radio/TV collection.
About 15 years ago I saw advertising for a new reproduction Predicta style TV with modern electronics and color picture tube.Anyone seen these?
I have only seen 2 for sale at flea mkts/antique malls in the last 20 years and know of one in a local massive radio/TV collection.
About 15 years ago I saw advertising for a new reproduction Predicta style TV with modern electronics and color picture tube.Anyone seen these?
kirbytradition7
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Retro TVs
Rugsucker, your mention of a Predicta-style reproduction TV reminded me of a question I have had for a long time:
I have never seen a retro-looking reproduction TV, and I've always wondered why (or if such an idea even existed).
If there were such a retro-looking TV, I would love to have one--to go with my other retro stuff (Kirby and Electrolux vacuums, Henry Kloss Model One table radio, record player, etc). Today's flat-screen TVs look jarringly electronic, a far cry from the beautiful wooden cabinet console TVs of my youth (we had a 27" Magnavox console TV). We even had a Magnavox wooden cabinet stereo, the size of a small coffin, with phonograph, radio, and 8-track player (with a cassette adaptor). I converted that into a cedar-lined linen chest for Mom years ago when it gave out.
Today's electronics just do not look beautiful.
Rugsucker, your mention of a Predicta-style reproduction TV reminded me of a question I have had for a long time:
I have never seen a retro-looking reproduction TV, and I've always wondered why (or if such an idea even existed).
If there were such a retro-looking TV, I would love to have one--to go with my other retro stuff (Kirby and Electrolux vacuums, Henry Kloss Model One table radio, record player, etc). Today's flat-screen TVs look jarringly electronic, a far cry from the beautiful wooden cabinet console TVs of my youth (we had a 27" Magnavox console TV). We even had a Magnavox wooden cabinet stereo, the size of a small coffin, with phonograph, radio, and 8-track player (with a cassette adaptor). I converted that into a cedar-lined linen chest for Mom years ago when it gave out.
Today's electronics just do not look beautiful.
super-sweeper
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Agreed!
Telstar Predicta
I don't know if the company is still in business, but here is the new Predicta, at least as of five years ago. They are quite expensive too.
http://www.predicta.com/
I don't know if the company is still in business, but here is the new Predicta, at least as of five years ago. They are quite expensive too.
http://www.predicta.com/
paulg
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Pix
In the den..
In the den..
paulg
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And one in the guest room
Also has a new CRT. Was dead as a doornail. Works nice now.
UGH. I have to touch up those nicks on the TV stand...
Also has a new CRT. Was dead as a doornail. Works nice now.
UGH. I have to touch up those nicks on the TV stand...
paulg
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Predicta Tandem
Note that the commercial makes little mention of the thick umbilical cable with a high-voltage line running through it.
Old-timers told me that the Tandem was popular in bars. The picture tube goes up the wall and the controls were below the bar.
Makes sense.
Note that the commercial makes little mention of the thick umbilical cable with a high-voltage line running through it.
Old-timers told me that the Tandem was popular in bars. The picture tube goes up the wall and the controls were below the bar.
Makes sense.
Another bad thing about new flatscreen TV's-how is the cat going to sleep on top-remember when we had the wood cased TV's the top was a warm place for kitty to sleep while the set was running.Philco Predicta sets would present a problem for sleeping cats!
paulg
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Sony Profeel = warm cats
My Sony Profeel was the purrfect kitty perch.
If any of you remember those monitors, they had a large bell on the back of the cabinet that would support a sleeping kitty ever so nicely.
My Sony Profeel was the purrfect kitty perch.
If any of you remember those monitors, they had a large bell on the back of the cabinet that would support a sleeping kitty ever so nicely.
