Chromacolor Dreams: 1960s and ‘70s Television Nostalgia | Sleepcore

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  • Sleepcore dreams in chromacolor with this new collection of 1960s and ‘70s television nostalgia!
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    • Magnavox 'Total Automa...
    • History Of Sony - Retr...
    • Sony Betamax 1975 promo
    • 1970s Television Set C...
    • Sony SL-C7 Betamax pro...
    • Zenith System 3 Ad 1979
    • GE Widescreen TV 1978
    • How to Cablecast (Janu...
    • 1970's Magnavox promot...
    • RCA XL-100 TV Set Comm...
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Komentáře • 29

  • @marcberm
    @marcberm Před měsícem +17

    I became strangely engrossed in the local cabelcast thing and was constantly afraid it was going to cut to something else! I had no idea there was (at one time) such a time and labor intensive process for the cable company to insert local/public access programming into the linear programming stream. I'm picturing staff having to go up there and hookup power and signal cables and huddle into a tiny plywood booth in all manner of weather in the name of getting the broadcast out. Wild.

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Před měsícem +8

    In a world with many fewer entertainment options, the quality of your TV was a BIG deal.

  • @dwagonswayer.4835
    @dwagonswayer.4835 Před měsícem +3

    This channel is a treasure trove of past dreams and wild imaginations. It’s awesome

  • @tomcarlson3913
    @tomcarlson3913 Před měsícem +6

    The TV in the thumbnail image is a Zenith 25DC56 or 25EC56 (1973-74 model year) Chromacolor II chassis in the Avanti cabinet model. Zenith made the Avanti (which was one of a few knockoffs of the RCA model G2000) cabinet for nearly a decade from the early 70's to early 80's and stuffed everything from hand wired mostly vacuum tube manual tuned chassis to Cable ready printed circuit board based System 3 sets with space phone. The Chromacolor II was probably the best quality of them all CRTs are damn near imortal, chassis sometimes have a few small issues that are easily fixed, but can easily go 40-50 years of daily use without failing.
    The video tape deck in the last minutes of the video is a Sony Color EIAJ deck....Probably a AV-5000 family deck.
    I've got that same Sony TV/Betamax combo console and it's rarer Zenith TV/Betamax combo console cousin.

  • @jerrywood4508
    @jerrywood4508 Před měsícem +5

    I wonder what year that Austin cable operation was. I was astonished at how low tech the whole thing was.

  • @NintendoThumb
    @NintendoThumb Před měsícem +1

    Great video as always but that bit at the end was incredible. Never thought I'd see something like that in my life. It's wild seeing how these things were done before computers.

  • @user-iu9fc5yb9k
    @user-iu9fc5yb9k Před 23 dny +1

    I remember an episode of Colombo where a Betamax was used to create an alibi for the murderer (you have to see the episode) . Anyway the murderer is showing off the video camera and Betamax to Colombo . Fascinated , he asks how much it goes for . $3000, not including the camera , of course

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před měsícem +1

    @ 7:26 "You record what you want, and play it back when you want." And what do they show as the classic example of what you want? A parade with creepy giant bobbleheads!

  • @dilliet977
    @dilliet977 Před měsícem +3

    I love trendy commercials for giant tube TVs. The iPhones of the 60s.

  • @wmalden
    @wmalden Před měsícem +2

    My dad won one of those 1962 Sony Micro TV’s way back when.

  • @Lethgar_Smith
    @Lethgar_Smith Před měsícem +4

    I remember in the late 70s maybe early 80s SNL had a parody commercial done like one of these with the most ridiculously over engineered television. It featured laser beam effects sending huge modular components into a cabinet cramming all manor of features like sound modules, picture modules, color control modules, etc..
    I've only seen it that one time it broadcast but it was very slick and looked just like that Zenith System Three commercial.

  • @pamelaearl7191
    @pamelaearl7191 Před měsícem +1

    I love Sleepcore. It's both comforting and disturbing. I remember many of these commercials and products... These TV commercials are incredible - today it's HD and flatness. Then it was adjusting colour and light via changing channels and well, drawing the curtains.
    'Qua-sar.' Sears made the best buttered popcorn... Yes. I love Sleepcore. Say G'night Dick.

  • @SB-hy9iq
    @SB-hy9iq Před měsícem +3

    I could only imagine how much that tv and stereo weighed lol

  • @squirrellymcbutterballs3510
    @squirrellymcbutterballs3510 Před měsícem +6

    Wait. I can time travel with the Betamax? Fuck yeah!

    • @steamfire
      @steamfire Před měsícem +3

      @@squirrellymcbutterballs3510 the time barrier is no match!

  • @securityrobot
    @securityrobot Před měsícem +3

    A combination TV with a Betamax, the ‘carpet’ of dry ice must’ve been an optional extra.

    • @ferociousgumby
      @ferociousgumby Před měsícem +1

      We had a Beta machine (not a Betamax), and I remember not being able to rent the tapes anymore. It was heartbreaking. But I also remember our astonishment at not needing to BE there in order to record things!!

    • @marcf8636
      @marcf8636 Před měsícem +1

      😄

  • @pcno2832
    @pcno2832 Před 19 dny

    15:36 I remember all those "one button" color stabilization gizmos of the 1970s; they were supposed to correct drift in the color burst pulse, a vulnerability in the NTSC system that was addressed in PAL with alternating phases, albeit at a price of reduced color resolution. I don't remember any of them working very well, with VIR seeming to have the most logic behind it. Unfortunately, from what I've heard, stations were very inconsistent in how and whether they used the VIR signal, so you couldn't really count on that system working. But, as the 1980s progressed and digital tuners based on standard chipsets took over, the problem seemed to wither away. Who knows what algorithms were buried in those chips; there could have been remnants of these 1970s technologies being activated when they worked. However they did it, the digitally tuned sets didn't have pictures that changed color as you walked across the room, even when using rabbit ear antennas. Now, we are spoiled by perfect digital pictures, even if most of the current content is crap.

  • @flapjackfae
    @flapjackfae Před měsícem +2

    Hoping for a mention of RCA's analog disc video machine. Vinyl with tiny, tiiiiiiiny grooves.

  • @jobos98
    @jobos98 Před měsícem +2

    Cool Video J

  • @steamfire
    @steamfire Před měsícem +5

    Who are you? What is this? When was I supposed to go to bed?

  • @marcf8636
    @marcf8636 Před měsícem +3

    Why did Betamax finally disappear?

    • @pamelaearl7191
      @pamelaearl7191 Před měsícem +1

      It was costly and they wouldn't lower their prices. VHS appeared on the market and was cheaper. It was still used by professionals in the 90's. Shame.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Před měsícem +4

    We have poured our resources into making TVs and cars think, but divested from education so people are thinking less critically and with less nuance.. Horrible priorities.

    • @pamelaearl7191
      @pamelaearl7191 Před měsícem +1

      Agreed. HD - too much information visually speaking.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před měsícem +1

      @@pamelaearl7191 I saw an essay in the early '90s that said that whereas our people had become the most informed, they were far from being the _best_ informed.

    • @pamelaearl7191
      @pamelaearl7191 Před 29 dny +1

      @@brianarbenz1329 That was thirty years ago. Now it is, alas neither.