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TeleTales #1…Ever See One Of These Before?
I think it was January of 1954 when RCA introduced this tri-view set. Notice the remote jack box for the ear pieces that gave you isolated audio on the screen you were most interested in. The speakers are in the bottom two panels and behind the top panel is a radio and turntable. They didn’t sell many of these and no, this is not the one LBJ had in his office…that was a custom job. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
How much did it cost?
Coming from a time when it was a big deal to just *own* a TV, that thing must have been freakishly expensive.
Oh yeah, my dad would have “loved” this: three flavors of chewing gum, an intellectual wasteland, perfect for my son. Interesting a loop of felix the cat was used in early TV … programming was a bitch: still is.
Today you would need 200 screens…or a huge video wall.
It must have been very scarce or my mother would have bought one back then
I’ll just watch Felix the Cat…the adults can have the other shows!
Or as Evertz called it back then…the VIP3.
Aaah….the days when one would get dressed up to watch tv.
Hi tech
Nordmende Spectra Color Studio, a german TV set from 1967:
as a Kid I used to imagine having soething like this, but for the 12 cable channels we got at that time. or at least CBC, CTV NBC, CBS and ABC plus PBS of course.
In 1954 they probably thought three screens is all you would ever need!
At least they were all in the same room. ..so parents could see what the kids were watching
tv was a huge thing in my childhood. i see it about as healthy as smoking cigarettes.
The idea originally was the ability to watch all 3 Networks at once.
Not a bad idea.
3 in 1. Cool! 🙂
Weight is one factor. How about the heat being generated by all of those tubes. Hope that would had been well ventilated.
I can’t imagine how much that thing weighed.
I’ll bet that setup drew some current!
Never saw one. Cool 🙂
Didn’t know these were sold commercially. We had a version of this at WTVT in Tampa in a conference room.
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