by uncacal on May 8th, 2009

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Who remembers how, when you shut off a TV, the picture would collapse into a bright dot in the center of the screen for brief moment, and then die?

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by KimKfromAbseconNJ on September 16th, 2009
Yep! Back in the day...1965, my family had a Zenith color set..with the round screen. That's exactly what happened when the set was turned off.

The set also took about a minute to warm up.

Here's an old RCA color set, with the 'roundie' picture tube..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y69WLDz9OU&feature=related
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