Originally Posted by
Steve Schell
I built a Heathkit front projector, kit version of a Zenith model, about 16 years ago. At the time it was the poor man's way to a really large screen TV. The JBL was being sold then, and was about $6000 as I recall; four times the price of the Heath. Barco and Vidikron were the other big names at the time, and their better models cost even more than the JBL. I had great fun with the TV for several years, both building it and endlessly tweaking it ever after. I'm lucky I never got tangled up with the 30 kilovolts while I was in there!