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1st Mar 2016, 10:01 pm | #61 |
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Re: The Most Beautiful TV Set
Here we didn't have many Nordmede sets in the period from SK2 to ICC5. Is the Stereo Sonic still a "genuine" Nordmende set or is it from the Thompson era?
I had a Prestige SK2 in gold which I liked. (Maybe a bit tacky, but still cool) I still might have it have it well hidden. It suddenly got a power supply fault which I didn't manage fix. The power supplies on these are a bit complicated and I didn't figure how it worked. Here is a link to Marcels Prestige: http://www.marcelstvmuseum.com/nordm...%20totaal.html |
1st Mar 2016, 11:24 pm | #62 |
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A great many moons ago my first boss acquired a 25 inch g8 in a rosewood cabinet, it was superb and very expensive, never saw another one like it and I serviced hundreds of the more common light teak cab variety.
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1st Mar 2016, 11:29 pm | #63 |
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@ Hans
SK2 and SK3 were original Nordmende constructions, these modul sets made it possible to repair only by changing moduls without soldering jobs. Best regards, German Dalek
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2nd Mar 2016, 1:43 am | #64 |
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Of sets I don't own, a contender would be the mid-70s Blaupunkt. Years ago I found a colour set in a white formica cabinet sitting on a verge, and I fell love with it. However, fixing it was beyond me, and since it was live chassis, no-one else would touch it. There's strong feelings in Australia against live chassis radios and TVs.
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2nd Mar 2016, 4:37 am | #65 |
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SK2 is beyond doubt an original Nordmende construction. In the SK3 there seems to be some overlap. The SK3 F7 chassis has all the signs of a Nordmende design while the SK3 F8 chassis is clearly a Thomson design (ICC1 probably).
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2nd Mar 2016, 8:53 am | #66 |
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Possibly a contentious choice but i think one of the most stylish (is that the same as beautiful?) TVs would be the Philips 21TG100, the bigger brother to the 17TG100. I think the style suits the bigger tube better than its smaller brother. Even better when it has its original spindly legs.
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2nd Mar 2016, 11:31 am | #67 |
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My Favourite has to be the Regentone 17-18 with its high gloss red wood and complemented by the ivory coloured plastic mask and then the light blue around the tube. I know these had the awful Cyldon push button tuners but the one in mine does still work though albeit with lower gain than is should as its been got at.
I also liked the Regentone Ten 17 I would love to get hold of one. Both sets are fairly easy to get to to service without removing the chassis from the cabinet most parts are accessible by removing the back and base plate. Steve |
2nd Mar 2016, 6:11 pm | #68 |
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Agree with you Mike on the 21TG100 we have a 21TG306 - not sure what the difference is ?? him or our baird 602 on dansette type legs seems to be what most "see" as an old stylish telly. 'er indoors likes the rounded sets but not the box ones, so I think a bit of persuasion is going to be needed before a fergy 3705 3K goes into our small front room !
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2nd Mar 2016, 6:36 pm | #69 |
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From post #53 - I have one of these Decca Bradfords in a console cabinet. It uses an A67-120X tube so is ever so slightly bigger than the usual 26" sets! This one has slider controls under the CRT and 'edge on' controls that found fame in the Telefunken badged Bradford. Unfortunately these have been updated but the old ones came with the TV so I might try and get them working. Can't say it's my idea of a beautiful TV though. There's a difference between iconic (TV22, KV1300), eyecatching (Keracolor, Discoverer) and beautiful () though. Glyn |
2nd Mar 2016, 7:01 pm | #70 |
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Call me a heretic but I just don't get the whole wooden-cased TVs thing: I prefer my TVs and radios to look like scientific instruments not furniture.
The Plustron TVRC7D http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ph...cs_TVRC_7D.jpg for example - I lusted after one of these as a student in the late-1970s. It's beautiful because it's engineered to do what it does and not to pretend to come from a previous age. I truly hated the BRC2000-chassised colour TV my parents had around the same time - in a cheap faux-wood 'square box' cabinet, on legs, it had a nasty roller-shutter thing you could pull across to conceal the screen - which when drawn over made the entire thing even more of a ghastly intrusion into the domestic living-space, kinda like someone had dumped a tea-crate there. |
2nd Mar 2016, 7:19 pm | #71 |
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2nd Mar 2016, 8:59 pm | #72 |
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I liked the Lowe Opta profi Art series (C9000 chassis), the floor standing version affectionately known as "the coffin".
I got my parents a 36" screen sized one in the early 90's from one of the wholesalers, a 4 man lift no less , this was a bit of a "marmite set", but it did ooze quality, sadly scrapped in about early 2000-ish due to a flat tube. This set used the ITT Digi chipset, and suffered from the known and common lopt failure not long after I bought it, this was duly replaced and the set gave 10 years sterling service until the CRT went flat, the chipset started blanking the picture out which made the set useless. By this time the CRT regunners had all but ceased trading, only using up the more common existing glass stock, and the A89 XXX glass in this Lowe was anything but common.
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4th Mar 2016, 12:37 am | #73 |
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Hi All,
Well fo postwar sets, the TV22 definitely gets my vote. However, I rather like the pre-war EMI sets in terms of the veneer patterns. Usually the HMV sets are nicer, though sometimes it is the other way round e.g. I prefer the Marconi 702 to the HMV 901. The HMV 907 is a favourite of mine. I also like the HMV 905 with its mirrored veneers on the front, each set looks quite different in that resect. The link below is to the one from MBL's books, which looks particularly striking. In fact it has a sort of angry look about it and reminds me a bit of Evil Edna; I still like it though. http://www.tvhistory.tv/1938-HMV-905-7inUK.JPG Here is a video of it working:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5iyVOJeKIA Cheers Andy
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4th Mar 2016, 1:04 am | #74 |
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I can see where you're coming from. Although I like televisions with good-quality wood cases, I generally dislike sets that try to look like sideboards or cabinets, or go in for "period" styling. And woodgrained plastic covered chipboard is beyond the pale!
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4th Mar 2016, 11:49 am | #75 |
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Back in the early 60s I worked for a Firm called Robinson Rentals later to become Granada. Who took over a company called Western Radio, with the take over came thousands of 17" 110 deg white Philco televisions with the controls on the top these had metal plastic covered case with bakelite tube mask and pressed moulded back cover, they were quite retro at the time, though tended to be unreliable. I have never seen one since.
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4th Mar 2016, 2:56 pm | #76 |
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The wooden box comment is quite valid. Initially, of course, that was the only material that could accommodate the heavy and bulky innards. But then came plastics, and given their versatility it was odd that the demand for wood carried on for so long, resulting in horrors such as the GEC solid state and Thorn 1500 and 9000 made of plastic but printed to look like wood, with the ultimate insult coming as the 'wood' wore off! Of course all TVs are now made of plastic - or are they? We had a 19" LCD television come last year in wearing a real wooden cabinet. It looked ridiculous! Glyn |
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The set was prone to the effects of signal overloading, vision on sound and sound on vision. Otherwise it was an attractive and compact 17" set. Very slim cabinet. DFWB. |
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4th Mar 2016, 5:06 pm | #78 |
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I am biased, as a kid we had a rented Murphy in Serene Green... Here http://www.murphy-radio.co.uk/murphy...s/1969_P04.jpg Watched the moon landings on it live (I was woken specially for it and very tired the next day), the set and occasion are still vivid in my mind.
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4th Mar 2016, 6:00 pm | #79 |
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The trouble with those coloured cabinet jobs was that they didn't respond very well with the standard bottle of Topps we were issued with
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Hard to believe now that those colours were the height of fashion back then... Mark |
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