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Originally Posted by cheerfulcharlie
I was wondering if the Alba was a budget model? - hence the missing the convergence controls as Philips didn't want their ones upstaged?
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The set would have been built fully dual standard as when it was made it would have needed to work on 405 as BBC1 and ITV were not transmitted on UHF. That didn't happen until 1969 when the first single standard UHF only sets started to be sold.
The Alba brand name was probably just a way Philips could sell outside of the Philips dealer network possibly to small dealers via wholesalers. Thorn certainly did this with the Marconi brand name.
Rich