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Old 20th Feb 2018, 11:13 am   #5
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Default Re: Pye dual standard TV set in 1960.

There's no further information about the Pye dual standard TV. It's likely to be a laboratory prototype rather than anything that would be in production a year later.
Seems that in 1960 Pye didn't attend the Earls Court radio show but instead the Pye Group held a three day exhibition of the their products at the Festival Hall.
At the opening of the Pye Group's three-day radio, TV and electronics exhibition at the Festival Hall, London, on Monday, Pye sprang a whole series of surprises on the trade - some intended for immediate production and sale, and others shown to support the Pye campaign for local broadcasting stations. of the six "star" innovations the most spectacular was:

The first all-British full size transistorised TV portable, the TT1 will be available almost immediately at about £100.

A small TV remote control unit to be used in the model V210A.

A Pye 23in console TV receiver using a new type tube. Likely to be the model V600A.

R35 transistorized clock radio.

For "Local Broadcasting" Linked to Pye's drive for the eventual establishment of local broadcasting were three special exhibits designed to show how the plan could be developed.

A switchable 405/625 TV receiver.

A "local broadcasting" receiver. Known as model R38, the tuning scale covers 108Mc/s and is marked "local broadcasting".

"Radio Westminster" a working local radio station complete with studio...


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