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4th Nov 2019, 5:54 pm | #21 |
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Re: Colour TV in UK in 1966-surely not!!
Wasn't it May 67, something rings in my head. BBC2 only of course, 625 b
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4th Nov 2019, 6:27 pm | #22 |
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BBC2 was transmitting colour for quite a while before the official opening announcement in June for the Wimbledon Tennis. Pre June the transmissions were aimed for the trade and were not official programmes.
It was the same in late 1969 when BBC1 and ITV went over to colour on 15th November. There were odd occasions when channel 23 would perk up and show the current ITV programme in colour then close down again. Channel 26 would do the same and I remember the Frost programme being announced that it was going out in colour. I pressed the UHF button on our Murphy CTV2210D and low and behold it was Frost in colour. It seems only yesterday. Those early colour days were great fun. John. |
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Another reason, was many stations in lesser populated areas didn't have the means to invest in new transmitting equipment. Almost, ten years later, the sales of color sets really took off. As much as I like my toys, I didn't own a set until December 1965. Even then, there was still many programs still in only B/W. Many of the adverts were in color. Dave, been around awhile! |
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https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedule...don/1966-07-30 But I don't know if BBC2 did show it or not, as BBC Genome only lists what was listed in Radio Times, so if listings changed last-minute after publication (as they were liable to with such an event like this), I don't know. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedule...and/1966-07-30 I do know that the BBC's VT coverage of the match proves that it was shot in 625 b/w with old image orthicon tube cameras (so that actual footage was never in colour at any point), but I think that choice of line standards is more likely to do with them feeding the rest of the Eurovision broadcast network (most of which was 625) than it was to do with a potential BBC2 broadcast. BBC2 do have a Radio Times billing for some WC coverage, but only as a highlights package along with other sports later that evening. Of course, ITV's coverage (compiled in "World of Sport" by Midlands and North weekend contractor ABC Television and OB equipment and staff provided by London weekday contractor Rediffusion Television and paid for by London weekend contractor ATV) was 405 from source. I've seen clips of this, which also suggest it survives on the original 2" Quad videotape. Last edited by AidanLunn; 4th Nov 2019 at 7:09 pm. |
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4th Nov 2019, 7:11 pm | #25 |
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I remember in the 1966-67 winter on the BBC radio local news (NW so Winter Hill) at 6.55am it was nearly always announced that for those lucky to have a colour TV the "Virginian" (western) would be shown in colour at 8pm. I cannot remember exactly if it was late 66 or early 67, I do remember it was dark outside!
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There were test transmissions from Winter Hill in the Winter of 66/67, it was coloured slides that I saw on a Baird CTV at Wigan tech.
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4th Nov 2019, 7:34 pm | #28 | |
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Something similar happened at Christmas 1984, note what the BBC1 announcer David Allan says here at 0m 45s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGc3tdcohfM |
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4th Nov 2019, 7:42 pm | #29 | |
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I know that my parents would have watched it on the main tv (a 405 only TV) in the living room but I have no recollection of watching it with them but I do remember watching it on my old HMV 1845 up in my bedroom, had I converted it to 625 by then? I thought I had but I guess I'll never know for sure, I even fitted it up with a wired remote for an on/off, volume control and I think a brightness control, the control knobs I fitted were the same style as those used on the Baird 640 type receivers, the tuner was a rotary PC86/PC88 job. Lawrence. |
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4th Nov 2019, 11:05 pm | #30 |
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On USENET and by extension Web fora, that phenomenon is known as "Skitts Law"
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5th Nov 2019, 12:11 am | #31 |
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I've heard some editions of Late Night Line Up were transmitted in colour before the official launch, & not billed as such.
I guess the were using colour cameras to get studio staff used to working with them before the launch.
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5th Nov 2019, 1:57 pm | #32 |
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From TV Mag Wiki...
"Introduced on BBC 2 for Wimbledon coverage on Saturday, July 1, 1967. The launch of the BBC 2 "full" colour service took place on December 2, 1967. Some British TV programs, however, had been produced in colour even before the introduction of colour television in 1967, for the purpose of sales to American, Canadian, and Filipino networks. Full-time colour broadcasts since 1969"
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The need to distribute colour TV programming was the cover story for the construction of the Post Office Backbone microwave network. It did indeed carry some TV signals, though the primary purpose was to distribute real time information from air defence radars. It has now been replaced with fibre optic and satellite links, both for military and civilian purposes. |
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6th Nov 2019, 12:06 pm | #35 |
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Like Peter (Reelman) I also was in Italy during the 1966 world cup final and had to listen to the World Cup on Italian radio on a boat sailing from Capri to Naples. The crew were surprised that I had no interest in football.
I have read the Daily Mail article and note that the person searching for his lost friend was a retired engineer. Possible his friend was also in some form of engineering and had an early colour set on test. With poor convergence and purity errors plus a few beers it might have looked colourful! Perhaps a letter to the Daily Mail could get the writer to verify the situation. John |
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I've just finished listening to the audiobook of David Attenborough's memoirs, published in 2008. He was in charge of BBC2 at the time of the switch to colour and he confirms that some of the earliest colour transmissions in PAL were "Late Night Line Up"....specifically because they wanted to get skin tones right. Attenborough remembered seeing NTSC colour TV in the 50s and how everything was very garish. He and the engineers were looking at how to best deliver true to life colour pictures using the relatively crude colour cameras available at the time.
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6th Nov 2019, 1:12 pm | #37 |
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Ref post #34, my parents didn't have a colour TV till 1977 - a dual standard G6 I'd bought ex-rental and renovated. A steep learning curve for a teenager! The news was, of couirse, in colour, but if there was a regional insert from our local area (BBC Bangor in north Wales) it was still in black and white, and was for many subsequent years. Anything from south Wales was, of course, in colour and had been for years. 'Twas ever thus...
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6th Nov 2019, 4:22 pm | #39 |
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Wife used to work at BBC Wood Norton way back in the early sixties and saw colour tv there in 1963, must have been NTSC experimental sets.
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