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13th Mar 2019, 2:34 pm | #21 | |
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Re: Early Colour TV's. Were they produced in the UK?
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They were brought in by Debenhams, there was no company owned importer then. I think Debenhams were also the first to bring in the Sony KV-1320UB, so they had the two best colour sets on the market in their catalogue. |
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13th Mar 2019, 2:49 pm | #22 | |
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Re: Early Colour Tvs were they produced in the UK
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Schaub Lorenz was a brand of ITT's German operation, Standard Electric Lorenz. AFAIK, the only German made ITT set officially imported into the UK in the 1970s, was the FT110 (a solid state 110 degree delta gun chassis). They issued a UK service manual for it. |
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13th Mar 2019, 3:16 pm | #23 |
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Re: Early Colour TV's. Were they produced in the UK?
The compamy I was working for in 1971 bought in some Telefunken 709 series sets.
Several days later, a jiffy bag came in the post containing luminance delay lines to replace the ones in each of the sets, as it turned out that 'system I' had a different luminance delay time constant to the 'system B-G' (?) in use in Germany where the sets were made. There was a seperate auto-transformer supplied with each set to convert them from 220V to the British 240V mains. Tony |
13th Mar 2019, 3:26 pm | #24 |
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13th Mar 2019, 4:15 pm | #25 |
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Re: Early Colour TV's. Were they produced in the UK?
The Combi-color was an odd beast. When you dug a bit deeper it did appear to be quite different from the CVC5, and not only in the line output section. I wondered how much influence the German parent of ITT had in the development of the CVC5 series as it was quite unlike anything ITT-KB had made before in the UK. Mind you, any form of PCB would have been radical to them!
I was always amazed at how little more a B&O 3000 series cost over (say) a single-standard GEC or Decca of the time. No offence to those designs, but you did get a lot more TV for your money. |
13th Mar 2019, 4:24 pm | #26 | |
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I think the step change in ITT UK's TV chassis design was due to the passing of the UK's dual standard era, which allowed much more commonality of chassis design amongst the multinational consumer electronics companies. In addition, the advantages of PCBs over hand wired chassis were so clear by then, that ITT-KB's 1960s slogan of "Hand Wired TV" was rather outdated. |
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13th Mar 2019, 5:08 pm | #27 | |
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I do recall the cases of those transformers made excellent project boxes ;-) . I still have, and often use, a small L.V. bench power supply I knocked up in one when the set was scrapped. Tony. |
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