Are there differences between the Telstar Predicta and the Philco Predicta?
A few. Again, the goal of Telstar was to create color Predicta TV as if the original engineers were creating it today. For that reason we altered some things from the original design. It is not our desire to mimic Philco Predicta, but to continue it. The most notable difference is color Predicta TV is roughly 16% larger than its older cousin. The idea behind this was that living rooms today are larger than in the past and a 21″ tube is, quite frankly, too small to view without strain. Our goal was to make the Predicta TV functional on a daily basis and not as a novelty. As far as cosmetics are concerned, most of the knobs, screens, and stamping patterns are virtually indistinguishable from the original.
