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Is Baird a good make?
Last night my TV conked, it was one of those widescreens where the back sticks out 17 mile so its quite old
.I've seen a Baird 32 inch LCD HD ready tv, but was wondering if Baird was a good make? I cant remember ever hearing about that make before. |
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Last night my TV conked, it was one of those widescreens where the back sticks out 17 mile so its quite old
.I've seen a Baird 32 inch LCD HD ready tv, but was wondering if Baird was a good make? I cant remember ever hearing about that make before. Currently I don't know who owns the rights to the name, but like Bush, Grundig, Luxor, Goodmans etc. it's just a badge used on cheap crap - probably bought from Vestel. |
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Last night my TV conked, it was one of those widescreens where the back sticks out 17 mile so its quite old
.I've seen a Baird 32 inch LCD HD ready tv, but was wondering if Baird was a good make? I cant remember ever hearing about that make before. Up to around 1970 Baird was a manufacturer of Tv's and radios for the rental trade, the main outlet was Radio Rentals. In the early 70's it was taken over by BRC who then kept the name for the rental trade but the sets were identical inside to Marconi, HMV and Feguson sets. Unfortunatly now when you buy a set with a name such as Bush, Ferguson, Goodmans, or even Baird all you are doing is buying a badge. What you need to do is find the model number,and do a comparison with other sets with different names. you will probably find it is made in Turkey |
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The only Baird TV's I've seen these days are in Brighthouse... you know that lovely company that has modest interest rates
![]() In conclusion: Avoid Baird as it's cheap budget equipment and most likely from Brighthouse who'll happily charge you a fortune. |
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The only Baird TV's I've seen these days are in Brighthouse... you know that lovely company that has modest interest rates
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The only Baird TV's I've seen these days are in Brighthouse... you know that lovely company that has modest interest rates
![]() In conclusion: Avoid Baird as it's cheap budget equipment and most likely from Brighthouse who'll happily charge you a fortune. Looks like no TV for me. |
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Yes I think I'll take your advice, the TV I was talking about was £450 or something cash, if you paid monthly it came to around £750.
Looks like no TV for me. |
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Its like one of those names out on rent. I think even philips has whored out their name to fanai now.
http://www.funai.us/topics/2008/080409.html Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (TSE/OSE 6839) today announced to enter into a brand licensing agreement in perspective with Royal Philips (AEXHI, NYSEHG)under which Funai will assume responsibility for the sourcing, distribution, marketing and sales activities of Philips’ consumer television business in the United States and Canada. The five-year minimum agreement takes effect September 1, 2008 and stipulates Funai will pay royalty payments in exchange for Funai’s right to exclusively use the Philips and Magnavox brand names for the TV offering in North America during this period. Completion of this intended agreement is subject to any mandatory governmental regulatory approvals. " Saddos... like westinghouse,rca, magnavox, zenith, polarid, etc, its just cheap junk with a zombie label slapped on it. |
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Baird invented mechanical TV which has no connection with electronic TV invented by EMI or the TV's built by The Baird company in the 1950's and 1960;s
electronic TV was certainly not invented by EMI ![]() the system that Marconi EMI used at alexandra palace in 1936 was the american system from RCA based on the iconoscope developed by V. Zworykn Marconie got this via rights to use the patent see- http://www.bairdtelevision.com/zworykin.html This of course was monochrome and the person who invented all electronic colour television ????????????? John Logie Baird the Baird Telechrome was the worlds first all electronic coulor TV Tube which became the baises of all future colour CRTs and while backward britain continued with the RCA system in the states RCA introduced all electronic colour |
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Not again, biard did not invent electronic television. He was beaten to the correct method of producing television.
Others did the leg work for electronic tv. including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_F...nic_television Once others had got the basics for electronic tv down, he simply used 3 to get color, but as before with his mechanical method, his method was not the right way of doing it, and not really the ancestor of modern color tv. You have to really stretch to give him that much credit. |
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I never said Baird invented electronic television
I said that EMI did not invent electronic television the fact is that baird invented television it may have been mechanical to begin with but all inventions dont stay the same they evolve baird did not invent electronic television but he was first with all electronic colour tv when charles babage invented the computer it was mechanical , the fact that computers today are all electronic dus not dispute the fact that Babbage invented the computer Baird was the person who invented television he was the first person to demonstrated pictures by wireless , mechanical TV still exists today examples include VHS , DVD and Blue Ray both BBC and ITV use mechanical telecinie systems developed by Rank Cine tell the successor of the original Baird company mechanical TV systems are used in the space programs of both America and Russia and the electronic CRT is now obsolete |
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Nipkow patented mechanical TV in 1884.
Campbell Swinton proposed electronic TV in 1908 |
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but neither produced a working system they never progressed further than paper
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electronic TV was certainly not invented by EMI
![]() the system that Marconi EMI used at alexandra palace in 1936 was the american system from RCA based on the iconoscope developed by V. Zworykn Marconie got this via rights to use the patent see- http://www.bairdtelevision.com/zworykin.html This of course was monochrome and the person who invented all electronic colour television ????????????? John Logie Baird the Baird Telechrome was the worlds first all electronic coulor TV Tube which became the baises of all future colour CRTs and while backward britain continued with the RCA system in the states RCA introduced all electronic colour With regard to Baird and his colour TV it had no connection with the shadow mask colour tube designed and patented by RCA in the early 1950's. It was more like the defunct CBS colour system which used 405 lines! |
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Yes I think I'll take your advice, the TV I was talking about was £450 or something cash, if you paid monthly it came to around £750.
Looks like no TV for me. First ask friends/neighbours/family to see if there are any unused. Then try Freecycle where people are giving them away in your area. Heck, you can even see them piled up in the local tip... most of them probably work perfectly! Probably need a remote for them. Universal ones are available in poundshops. Failing all of that, do a local search on Ebay for "collection only", and don't bid more than £5 or £10. It might not be "32 inch LCD HD ready", but then again you've saved about £500... I know which I'd rather do. Or you could just go without a TV of course, which would be fine for me... you might disagree! -rapido |
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I have a 1953 TV. It cost £75 to buy then. Damned expensive at the time.
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Television requires more than one patent. EMI was the first to design a fully functioning system. They developed all the electronics including interlacing as well as the transmitters to get the TV on the air.
With regard to Baird and his colour TV it had no connection with the shadow mask colour tube designed and patented by RCA in the early 1950's. It was more like the defunct CBS colour system which used 405 lines! the telechrome was the worlds first electronic colour CRT with no mechanical parts whatsoever ! see- http://www.earlytelevision.org/baird...nic_color.html |
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Wasn't Baird's colour system just a sequencial system. Rotate a disc in front of the Nipkow disc with Green, Red and Blue filter windows?? Same at receiving end.
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I never said Baird invented electronic television
I said that EMI did not invent electronic television the fact is that baird invented television it may have been mechanical to begin with but all inventions dont stay the same they evolve baird did not invent electronic television but he was first with all electronic colour tv when charles babage invented the computer it was mechanical , the fact that computers today are all electronic dus not dispute the fact that Babbage invented the computer Baird was the person who invented television he was the first person to demonstrated pictures by wireless , mechanical TV still exists today examples include VHS , DVD and Blue Ray both BBC and ITV use mechanical telecinie systems developed by Rank Cine tell the successor of the original Baird company mechanical TV systems are used in the space programs of both America and Russia and the electronic CRT is now obsolete As for your claims that biard is responsible for vhs and dvd and bluray as well. That shows how far you are willing to exagerate contribution. By the standard you are using you might as well claim edison also gets credit for such systems. |
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I am saying the VHS and Blueray are mechanical TV systems
mechanical TV is still in use today so it was hardly a dead end |
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Wasn't Baird's colour system just a sequencial system. Rotate a disc in front of the Nipkow disc with Green, Red and Blue filter windows?? Same at receiving end.
His all electronic colour TV 1945 was HD and 1000 lines not 405 lines ! see link in my outher post |
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Wasn't Baird's colour system just a sequencial system. Rotate a disc in front of the Nipkow disc with Green, Red and Blue filter windows?? Same at receiving end.
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I am saying the VHS and Blueray are mechanical TV systems
mechanical TV is still in use today so it was hardly a dead end To give biard credit for vhs/bluray is ridiculous level of thinking. You might as well claim nipcow and edison are responsible for bluray in that case. |
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""Among the earliest published proposals for television was one by Maurice Le Blanc in 1880 for a color system, including the first mentions in television literature of line and frame scanning, although he gave no practical details.[3] Polish inventor Jan Szczepanik patented a color television system in 1897, using a selenium photoelectric cell at the transmitter and an electromagnet controlling an oscillating mirror and a moving prism at the receiver.""
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Ahh another thread where the mention of Baird takes the original post off into new and weird places
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