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1st Dec 2017, 10:49 am | #1 |
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1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
I recently found this in some of my archived magazines. It is amazing how far advanced RCA were with this technology at the time. The final anode voltage on the especially made CRT in this "gun" was 10kv. The construction is certainly very futuristic for the time, building it into the cylinder to make it like a gun.
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
Looks a lot better than the Philips and Decca systems from the '50s and they used 25 kv.
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
European 1950’s projection TV’s
https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/pr...sion_sets.html Slightly bigger version of the 1937 type.
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
This displayed picture on the second page of the article doesn't look quite right to me. If you look carefully at the shadow of Dr Law's head, the outline of the model's shoulder continues as a darker shadow. Methinks this was a printed picture being simply illuminated by a light being shone on it.
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
Wow, that one looks massive.
I found a little more information on the 1937 gun version in Fink's television book. The CRT apparently runs 2mA beam current and they mention a figure of 5mA too and 10kV, so it has about 20 to 50 watts screen power. No a wonder the CRT phosphors had a habit of aging relatively quickly. It also has a focus coil wound to prevent spherical aberration. I'm sure a scan collapse on one of those projection CRTs would destroy the phosphor is short order. |
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Fascinating.... also remember the mechanically-scanned projection TVs of the same era: Scophony being the most well-known example:
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.o...scanner-motor/ |
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
I have heard it said of Eidophor projectors, that by rights they shouldn't really work at all!
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
A business acquaintance of my dad had a colour CRT projection TV in his lounge. The screen was integral to the set like a RPTV, but it was front projection with the tubes mounted in a trough at the front.
Impressive for the mid '70s. I can't recall the make or model, but I suspect I am about to be told
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
In a film which features the original low definition pre-war German TV system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqJBVg7MxI at 5:20 there is a short scene showing what seems to be a projected live TV image. No details given, but at that time the Germans did develop an intermediate film system for projecting live TV that used a conventional movie projector to produce the image. Attached is leaflet describing Decca's large screen projection TV from 1954. I wonder what the life of its tube was? |
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The Philips set had an elaborate protection circuit should a timebase fail, the problem was you had to somehow overcome it to fault find. Yes I can confirm that a time base collapse without the protection system will destroy the screen phosphor instantly.
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Tube life was actually very good. The problems arose when one of the timebases failed and the protection circuit had an unknown fault.
This was quite rare but most engineers fitted an old burnt screen tube [Mullard MW6-2] for chassis fault finding and when all was working ok the good tube was refitted. I have a number of projection receivers. I brought this beast back to life for the Dulwich museum. John. https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=120026 |
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Re: 1937 RCA Projection TV "gun"
I’ve seen the Eidophor projectors in use around 1980. They were very large and gave brilliant pictures fed from 2” video tape. The screen used was a cinema type about 30 feet across.
I worked for a dealer that sold the Sony projectors at that time and they cost about £7000. The Eidorphor was about £200,000. So not going to be a domestic product, plus you would need a spare room to house the projector and it’s associated equipment. |
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The Decca also has this feature - for the same reason.
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Thanks for the link to the Karolus display, most interesting. I had wondered if the lack of flicker that you usually see when a TV appears in shot in a cine film, meant that the picture was produced by special effects. The persistence of filament lamps could account for the the lack of flicker, meaning that it was indeed a straight shot of a Karolus display.
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