1949 Tele-Tone TV-209 Vintage Television
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This is a Tele-Tone model
This is a Tele-Tone model TV-209 from 1949.
I restored the electronics on this 60 year old TV last year, the cabinet still needs a little attention.
Nicknamed a "Porthole" set because the face of the picture tube is not masked off to create the standard 4:3 image.
Sets like this either stretch the vertical to fill the screen or zoom the entire picture thereby cutting off the sides, neither option is correct as far as watch-ability but it allowed the maker of the set to advertise more square inches of screen without actually having a bigger tube.
Completely round picture tubes were pretty much gone (except for Color sets) after about 1951.
The chassis in this set is a modified version of the RCA
621/721 chassis, typical of Tele-Tone it's been cheapened somewhat but it really works very well.
There is a slight audio buzz that's exaggerated by the camera, in reality it's not so bad.
The video playing is a Public Domain episode of Betty Boop downloaded from the Prelinger Archives.
I restored the electronics on this 60 year old TV last year, the cabinet still needs a little attention.
Nicknamed a "Porthole" set because the face of the picture tube is not masked off to create the standard 4:3 image.
Sets like this either stretch the vertical to fill the screen or zoom the entire picture thereby cutting off the sides, neither option is correct as far as watch-ability but it allowed the maker of the set to advertise more square inches of screen without actually having a bigger tube.
Completely round picture tubes were pretty much gone (except for Color sets) after about 1951.
The chassis in this set is a modified version of the RCA
621/721 chassis, typical of Tele-Tone it's been cheapened somewhat but it really works very well.
There is a slight audio buzz that's exaggerated by the camera, in reality it's not so bad.
The video playing is a Public Domain episode of Betty Boop downloaded from the Prelinger Archives.
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