this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
862 points (97.2% liked)

Comic Strips

16194 readers
3113 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Holy cow. That TV! Actually awesome, seems uniquely aesthetically pleasing for the era it seems to originate from.

What can you tell us about that TV?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The origjnal is a Philco Predicta from around 1958 or so. The Philco brand existed for years and years, first as a maker of radios, then as a maker of televisions.

The retro-futurist Predicta line ran for just 2 years, 1958 to 1960.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta

It definitely gained a hold though and has been featured in both the Sims and Fallout games:

In the 90's, the brand was acquired by a tiny company called Telstar who hand-made reproductions using Phillips parts, that's who made mine in 2001.

25", full color, with composite, component and S-Video inputs. It even supports 480p video!