Interesting German Hi-Fi & A/V Brochure archive

[John123]

Found this interesting website which has German language brochures for all different makes of mostly Hi-Fi equipment, but there's some old radio and TV/VCR stuff in there as well. I don't know if the link has been posted before, but I am sure it will be new to a lot of us.

PS: Found the ITT range quite fascinating, as we had an ITT Hi-Fi system for many years. We had the ITT 8011 direct drive turntable, 8022 tape deck, and the 8032 receiver. Couldn't find the speakers on there, but they looked a bit like the A1-130 but had separate Bass/ Treble crossover controls at the top, under a removable strip that was held on with Velcro. I think the drivers were Toshiba Aurex.

[reelguy]

Thanks for that John,

I had a look on there and found a downloadable manual for the Akai 630D reel to reel deck. I wanted that,Very handy. And it was in English.
I still need a head cover for that recorder though..

Also some info on Brenell recorders in English. Downloadable.
Well worth a look.
Regards Peter W.........Reelguy.

PS. How come I haven't come across that site before ?.

[Stewart]

Thanks for posting that link! Hours of trawling to be done there! Excellent!

[newlite4]

Thanks, really quite nostalgic. There is a brochure there for Nordmende 1970, the last page shows that 26" colour TV with the three 9" B/W screens beneath :

http://nordmende.pytalhost.com/nordmende70/nordmende56.jpg

Saw one in Harrods in 1973, never did work out why anyone needed a telly with four screens .
Neil

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by newlite4

...never did work out why anyone needed a telly with four screens l

No worse than the late 1980s must-have feature... Picture-In-Picture. I presume it was so that channel-hopping types could watch one programme safe in the knowledge that there was nothing better being shown on the other sides

Thanks for a great link, John. But seems to be plagued with unsavoury advertising pop-ups for me, in spite of my OS being fully up-to-date etc.

N.

[ben]

Originally Posted by Nickthedentist

No worse than the late 1980s must-have feature... Picture-In-Picture.

handy for editing tapes though!
i have two panasonic vids with this, the nv-d80 and the nvd45 i think

[John123]

Originally Posted by Nickthedentist

Thanks for a great link, John. But seems to be plagued with unsavoury advertising pop-ups for me, in spite of my OS being fully up-to-date etc.

N.

Yes I was just about to warn about them, I hope they don't cause any long-term problems (adware etc). I run Firefox, but I know that IE is more susceptible to these sort of things.
Anyway glad the info is coming in handy for many of you. I'll have a look through my bookmarks to see if I have any other sites that might of interest

John

[Mikey405]

Originally Posted by Nickthedentist

Thanks for a great link, John. But seems to be plagued with unsavoury advertising pop-ups for me, in spite of my OS being fully up-to-date etc.

If you add the following two URLs to your "Restricted Sites" list in Internet Explorer then everything seems to work fine without all the nasty Pop-Up type stuff. There may be some other URLs to add in there, but these 2 seem to stop most of the Pop-Ups.

http://*.pytalhost.com
http://*.te.funpic.de

To get to the place where you type the site names in, click:
Tools > Internet Options > Security > (Click Restricted Sites Icon) > Sites

Hope that helps.

From Mike.

[Focus Diode]

Originally Posted by newlite4

There is a brochure there for Nordmende 1970, the last page shows that 26" colour TV with the three 9" B/W screens beneath

I saw a similar set too at Harrods in 1979. At least they didn't have to deal with dual std operation!

Working on these sets must've been an experience! I take it they were hybrid? Were the B&W displays solid state? This would make a very interesting thread indeed!

Brian

[ianj]

A great site--many thanks!! ianj

[Nickthedentist]

Originally Posted by Mikey405

Hope that helps.

It definitely does, Mike, thanks