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alaninsitges (edited )Link ParentI have a Predicta, recently fully restored. They are very cool, but the plastic over the screen is decomposing and it makes the whole room smell like vomit (really). It came from an era when...I have a Predicta, recently fully restored. They are very cool, but the plastic over the screen is decomposing and it makes the whole room smell like vomit (really).
It came from an era when industrial design of TVs really started to get daring and creative. After a decade of dull mahogany cubes, new plastics and other materials granted a whole lot of freedom to try new things. The Philco Predicta debuted in 1959, and alongside were sets from Sylvania like the Halolight series and the Dualette, the GE Forecaster. It was a design golden age. Before too long, everything was generic black plastic.
I happened onto the (relatively) new Beyond... mix on Radio Paradise this week and it has me rating and tagging new things to me like crazy. Lots of discovery going on.