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11th Feb 2017, 3:06 pm | #1 |
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What TV is this?
Looking at something I originally taped in 1983, Heinz Wolfe went back to 1948 to see what the changes were for the man in the street. At one point he is operating this TV, any one know what it is? To think that when he was demonstrating it, 405 lines were still being transmitted.
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11th Feb 2017, 3:34 pm | #2 |
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Re: What TV is this?
He's now the patron, by the way of the Museum of Communications in Burntisland.
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11th Feb 2017, 3:34 pm | #3 |
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Re: What TV is this?
Sorry, can't help with the telly, but If anyone is interested in the documentary, you can watch it here :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmR3cCjuMjM
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11th Feb 2017, 4:01 pm | #4 |
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Re: What TV is this?
Looks like a Marconi 709.
http://www.thevalvepage.com/dbase/ma...one/ad/709.jpg http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/m...rconiphone.htm Peter |
11th Feb 2017, 4:42 pm | #5 |
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Re: What TV is this?
Yup, that be it. Swap the numbers round and you have the HMV equivalent: the 907.
I've come across the 907 more often than (to my eye) the more attractive 709, though according to http://www.earlytelevision.org/database_prewar.html similar numbers survive. Steve
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