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Originally Posted by jswinden
Yep I think the first ones were designed to look similar to the big wooden stand-up radios of the day. I've only seen one TV with a round screen, and it was a true color TV. I guess the rectangular screens came along later. I'm not old enough to remember anything before the early to mid 1960s though.
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There is a reason why they looked like the stand up radio sets. The companies that made the first cabinets for TV sets had started out making the cabinets for radio's a couple of generations prior. .R.C. A. Victor for example.