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Your 1st tv you owned?
I remember getting one for xmas it was a portable b&w with a telescopic ariel that would run off 12 volts in the event of a power cut. i think it was a phillips.
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Sorry for the digression and nostalgia............
Although not owned by me personally the first TV bought by a member of my family was a Cossor 929 in 1953 http://www.thevalvepage.com/dbase/cossor/926.jpg The first TV my dad bought in 1954 was a Regentone 'Big15' http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvmanu/r.../regentone.htm The first TV I actually owned (circa 1977) was a Bush CTV1122 http://www.oldtechnology.net/colour3.html#bushctv1122 |
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The first TV I actually owned (circa 1977) was a Bush CTV1122
http://www.oldtechnology.net/colour3.html#bushctv1122
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I remember getting one for xmas it was a portable b&w with a telescopic ariel
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The 1st TV that I remember getting is the McMichael TV.
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My first one was a Amstrad TV+VCR Combo. Can't remember the model.
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Mine was a Panasonic portable I got for Christmas in 85 for use with my Spectrum. I still have it in the spare room and it still works perfectly as well.
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Back in the 90s think mine were 2 Bush 14 inch portables.
I had one for games and the other for TV. Then got this one https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-z...0/Untitled.jpg which was an Hitachi I then had this https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1...27-h845/Tv.jpg which was a fat 32 inch Then this Samsung https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5...3793498335.jpg Then this Toshiba 42 inch https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-u...4022008234.jpg I now use this 50 inch LG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R...419_165534.jpg And this little 7 inch DVB TV https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5...812_202047.jpg |
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My first was a Pye B&W portable with rotary tuner. Gran gave it me in the early 80s when she got a new colour one.
Programmed my first Spectrum game using that set. |
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I went through a couple of hand me downs. A 20 inch Ferguson with a silver casing. Then the same TV but in a black case. Can't remember the models, but late 80's.
The first TV I bought was a 20 inch Nicam Hitachi in 1991.Dark Grey with speakers in the sides. From Comet, cost me £259. Was still going till a few months ago, but did have to give it an Onslow clout recently to get the picture on. Was kept in a spare room and when I took it to the tip, had a tear in my eye. |
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My first TV was a Grundig portable colour tv which I got about 1981 along with an Atari 2600. Best Christmas present ever, and mum and dad were still using it until a few years back in their gym in the back porch.
Hardy little set that was, and not many TV`s you get now will still be working well 30 years later.
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I had a couple of hand me downs but the first TV that I bought for myself was a 26" Toshiba Quadryl CRT.
I still have it to this day in my bedroom and it still works perfectly without a single breakdown in 25 years. They just don't build them like that anymore. |
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I went through a couple of hand me downs. A 20 inch Ferguson with a silver casing. Then the same TV but in a black case. Can't remember the models, but late 80's.
The first TV I bought was a 20 inch Nicam Hitachi in 1991.Dark Grey with speakers in the sides. From Comet, cost me £259. Was still going till a few months ago, but did have to give it an Onslow clout recently to get the picture on. Was kept in a spare room and when I took it to the tip, had a tear in my eye. Pity, that would have been a very rare set, I'm sure! |
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My first TV personally was a Black and white Prinz portable, that I got in 1981 for my ZX81. It still works as well.
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A Pye Rambler 12 b&w set that had push button selection for channels felt so posh when my friends had to turn a rotary knob to change channels, had it hooked up to my ZX81 showing my age now
![]() ![]() upgraded to a remote control colour Hitachi of same size that still works!
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Philips 18 or 19" G8-chassis TV (unsure of the model number) with a 6-position rotary channel selector in place of the usual 3+3 Philips push-button layout. Discarded when the selector fell apart and we couldn't find another one (were told that the push-button selector would work but I don't believe that was true as they were physically different sizes).
TV service bloke seemed to think that this particular set was a Pye design rather than Philips, and was built around 1976. Not the best picture quality or build, but it didn't give much trouble it must be said -- MUCH more reliable than the Ferguson Colourstar of a similar vintage we had downstairs, which went through three tubes in its ten or so year life. Indeed I was convinced that four years was "about average" for a CRT tube, and was astonished when I realised that friends' Japanese TVs (Sanyo, Sony etc) were happily running for 10 or 15 years with as-new picture quality! |
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A cheap Saisho 14" CRT from Dixons. It was actually bought for my F-in-law to have in hospital but when he came out we were moving into out first place so he donated it to us. It did ok until we could afford a big size telly then it was used as a spare around the family. The volume control wore so I unsoldered it and did a swap with the contrast pot. I also replaced the remote with a cheap programmable one that just had a few basic like buttons - on/off, volume +/- and channel up/down. It finally went in the skip at digital switch over having been lent out umpteen times. So must of had 25 plus years service all told.
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Philips 18 or 19" G8-chassis TV (unsure of the model number) with a 6-position rotary channel selector in place of the usual 3+3 Philips push-button layout. Discarded when the selector fell apart and we couldn't find another one (were told that the push-button selector would work but I don't believe that was true as they were physically different sizes).
TV service bloke seemed to think that this particular set was a Pye design rather than Philips, and was built around 1976. |
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The G8 was a Philips design - but as it was a small set, it might have been the CT200 which was a Pye design for small screens, and later than the G8's.
This set did match the general interface of the G8 though -- pull-down six channel selector/tuner module, Philips slanted power button etc. |
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Having looked into it a bit more, it's most likely that the set I owned was a Philips 570, which was indeed based on a later version of the Pye CT200.
Seems these sets aren't much loved by the industry, though as I say my particular set gave the Thorn Ferguson we had a sound thrashing in reliability terms. Wouldn't mind working out what that was actually -- 1976 (maybe 1977), 22", fake wood surround with mostly black plastic front, four vertical sliders (volume/brightness/contrast/colour), round silver on/off button, six small, round silver channel selectors in a horizontal row just numbered 1 through 6 (the 1 and 3 buttons had lost their latches so sprung out of the TV when changing channels), channel tuner pots around the back. Very washed out picture even with a brand-new tube, and the tubes themselves (Mazda-manufactured I believe) didn't last more than four years each. |
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A B&W Sony portable back in 1973, cost a blooming fortune back then but worked really well and did the last time I tried it a few years ago (its in storage these days, has been for yonks).
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