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Thread ID: 112409 2010-09-04 22:45:00 Our First TV. Trev (427) PC World Chat
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1134741 2010-09-04 22:45:00 users.actrix.co.nz
A 1964 Philips 26" B+W TV. This is from a scanned slide.
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Trev (427)
1134742 2010-09-04 23:21:00 Someones first TV pctek (84)
1134743 2010-09-04 23:27:00 users.actrix.co.nz
A 1964 Philips 26" B+W TV. This is from a scanned slide.
:)

We had the exact same model TV. I think it got tossed in the early 80's. Was still going perfectly (no colour TV these days would last as long - especially a Philips!), but we were amazed by how real colour TV made everything.
johcar (6283)
1134744 2010-09-04 23:38:00 Someones first TV

Around1951 I bought an incomplete baseboard mounted scanning disc TV for half a crown from a second hand shop in B'ham. Mechanically they were clever devices, picture synchronisation was by means of a sort of cogged wheel mounted on the disc spindle with electromagnets around it receiving pulses from a power amplifier. Sync pulses were transmitted along with the audio and video signals, all in shortwave band.

A neon lamp behind the disc provided an extremely feeble amount of light.

Edit: They were the sort of device any electronic handyman could knock up in his shed. F J Camm wrote a how to do it yourself book in the 1930s.
Terry Porritt (14)
1134745 2010-09-05 00:09:00 But I guess all you could receive was Coronation St...

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johcar (6283)
1134746 2010-09-05 00:22:00 We had the exact same model TV. I think it got tossed in the early 80's. Was still going perfectly (no colour TV these days would last as long - especially a Philips!), but we were amazed by how real colour TV made everything.
They were also sold as a rebadged HMV or the other way round.
:pf1mobmini:
Trev (427)
1134747 2010-09-05 02:50:00 Those old TVs gave far better weather too. They didn't seem as good as the modern sets at showing murders and serious assaults though.

Many different manufacturers had a wide variety of sets with Phillips innards.
R2x1 (4628)
1134748 2010-09-05 03:22:00 Bet that TV was expensive? QW. (15883)
1134749 2010-09-05 09:04:00 In 1959 I was 12 and went to my cousin's in Auckland from New Plymouth on the train. My uncle had built his own TV (he worked for General Electrics). I remember watching News, Cricket and Felix the cat!
My dad got a Phillips TV in 1968 and I remember watching the delayed coverage of the moon landing in '69. Black and white of course.

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
1134750 2010-09-05 11:29:00 users.actrix.co.nz
A 1964 Philips 26" B+W TV. This is from a scanned slide.
:)

What year is that picture from?

It is in extremely good condition. When i first looked at it, i thought it was from this year and the tv was like just sitting in your house.

But then i looked closer and noticed that its an old Photo
goodiesguy (15316)
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