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10th Aug 2018, 9:01 am | #21 |
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Re: TV is a lot more modern than you thought...
A Band 3 converter or a new set ... Take Your Pick!
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10th Aug 2018, 11:32 am | #22 |
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Granada started from Winter Hill in 1956, we had a Stirling converter on the top of the HMV TV. Granada covered Yorkshire from Emily Moor, not sure when Emily Moor started transmission but must have been a similar time.
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10th Aug 2018, 12:44 pm | #23 |
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I do miss frame slip, line break up, motor ignition snow, aircraft flutter,
and non vertical verticals. The 3 meg bars too. Not forgetting the trade test music each afternoon and a slight smell of ozone at the rear. The TV picture has no character these days as it once had, methinks.
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I have been listening to test card music in the car this morning, OK I know, a bit sad.
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11th Aug 2018, 8:24 am | #26 |
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TV is also a lot older than you'd think. Heinrich Hertz' experiments had resonant rings sparking across a gap when they received a signal. With light as the output, this was television! Admittedly of only one pixel, but you've gotta start somewhere. The size of his resonators put things in the UHF region as well.
So UHF TV came first. JLB contributed the ideas of having more pixels, of organising them into a picture, of using a neon bulb as a more sensitive alternative to a spark gap, and of time sharing the same hardware amongst many pixels. David
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11th Aug 2018, 10:46 am | #28 |
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I love it, though I doubt they are old enough to remember it. they missed out on the picture shrinking when the mains voltage dropped and the 'waving' when the supply frequency dropped.
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11th Aug 2018, 11:57 am | #29 |
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I've seen subtle, authentic looking hum-bars in video games, and their designers are usually still in nappies.
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12th Aug 2018, 12:10 am | #31 |
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Astigmatism?
Spot-wobble?
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12th Aug 2018, 1:47 am | #32 | |
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12th Aug 2018, 11:01 am | #33 |
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Aside from the "buy new" factor, a surprising number of people believed that it was not possible to view digital TV on older sets at all and some dealers didn't exactly rush to disabuse them of that notion. Even the media often got it wrong as well. Making sure nobody HAD to buy new was a condition of the switch to Digital but of course it would have been easier just to plough ahead regardless. It's a long way from 1926 but arguably the move to Digital Broadcasting was almost as significant.
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