If you have any pictures please post them as I want to have a look.
Google keeps putting lots of pictures from the USA but more interested in what TVs you had here in England UK.
In the late 90s I had this one.
Before that think I had 2 14 inch Bush TVs.

https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/...88114856_n.jpg

And my room looked a right mess LOL.

Late 90's we had a Sony KV36S70

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...d=0CBwQMygAMAA

Before that we had a Hitachi 36" (not 100% sure on the model, this looks like it - Hitachi D36WF840N)

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...d=0CCYQMygKMAo

Early 90's we had two Phillips widescreen crt's, 28" and 32", no idea on the model numbers, but they were one of the first models released, just after the Nokia 28" widescreen model if my memory serves me correctly. Looks similar to this....

http://intervideo.co/wp-content/them...lips2816x9.jpg

Not original photos.....

I had a Panasonic and a Sony.

I had a Sony TV, (can't recall the exact model number), that was basically a CRT display, audio/video switch and tuner flying in close formation.

There was a section in the menu system where you could route various signals between the display, tuner, the three SCARTs and the AV sockets on the front. So in theory at least you could have three VCRs plugged into the SCARTs and a camcorder on the AV. Then set it to route the Camcorder to VCR1, the tuner to VCR2 while you watched VCR3 on the display. Or any combination of input to output you liked.

It also had a double sided remote that slid into a sleeve. One side was the basic everyday controls and the other had more buttons than the NASA command centre

Never known another set with anything like those features.

Sounds very similar to the feature we had on an old Panasonic, this could reroute the AV from its scarts/tuner - you could have Sky on AV1 and a VCR on AV2 and could record sky without a physical connection between Sky/VCR.

Bush 32" widescreen and a Finlux 28" 4:3 TV with built in analoge satellite tuner and a slot for a Sky card.

A Philips 32" CRT widescreen which seemed to be the size of a piano and needed two people to shift it.
It was a rental and when I told Granada I was buying a new LCD model elsewhere, they tried to sell it to me at monthly intervals for decreasing amounts of money.
Eventually they said I could keep it for free, presumably because no one wanted it and they were too cheap to pay for it to be collected.
I do miss being able to place a cup of tea on top of my tv; it's much harder with flatscreens.

Had one of these Philips for years until it went poof
http://previewcf.turbosquid.com/Prev...d1af4Large.jpg

I then had a very 80s white panasonic tv, but I have never found another one like it. I know it was a refurbished jobbie from the local granada shop sometime in the early 90s.

It was replaced by this. My partner still has the bush version of this which I use for hooking up my vintage games consoles.
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...OXH-vn3uBg.jpg

Inherited this Bush one
http://thumbs3.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...AC-9WruCtA.jpg

Which was followed by a JVC
http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225...0OIKfAzIuQ.jpg

Sony Trinitron, like this,

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...g%3B1024%3B681

26" IIRC, just a tad smaller than the 65" monster I'm watching the world cup on just now.

Toshiba 3327DB 32inch TV. It had Dolby Surround and came with two satellite speakers.

It was replaced with a Panasonic 47inch Widescreen Rear Projection TV in around 1998/1999 that performed pretty flawlessly until the arrival of the 50 inch Plasma a few years ago.

In the bedroom was a Toshiba 21inch back in the 90s too.

Bang and Olufson MX series 28" 4:3 in the lounge.
Philips Matchline series 3 (21" monitor with separates tuner) in my bedroom.
1977 vintage Philips 14" monochrome in the kitchen.
Sister had a Grundig 14" (which I sourced a Teletext card and remote) until she moved out.

Not a 26 inch, probably a 21 or 25 inch?, Sony never made 26's, although they did make 27 inch ones (though not that style). Wide-screen ones were 24 or 28 (or 32 or 36).

In the 90s I had quite a few, but unfortunately I don't recall the model numbers of any of them.

The first 1 being a 15" PYE Black & White TV - was all my parents could afford for me when I got it around the age of 4 in the late 80s. I quite liked that TV and really regret chucking it out in the late 90s - it was still working perfectly.

The next 2 were utter garbage, 2x 20" colour sets, both ended up being faulty and subsequently got scrapped. The first was 2nd hand, only had the name "Rediffusion" on it, so god knows what that was - had a wood frame as many of them did. The 2nd was a new NEI set from around 1991/1992, my first to have Teletext & NICAM stereo capability.

Around 1993/1994 I got my longest lasting set, a 20" Ferguson dated from around the late 80s and in use regularly until 1999. Had a little plastic orange stick that you used to tune in each channel. Was fun in the analogue cable days, free PPV movies albeit in the wrong colours. The outer case was plastic, with a painted wood effect.

Was still working when I chucked it out in the early 2000s. Another 1 I regret disposing of, though it was starting to fail - the sound was crackling and it emitted a high pitched ringing noise when the brightness was turned up high, with a slight rippling effect on the picture.

We had one of the first LG 32".

Great set. good picture and five band graphic equaliser and various pre-sets for sound.
Must have had it for at least 20 years, still working when I chucked it out and bought a Panasonic Viera.

Earlie 90s I was still useing a 19inch Phillips TV with flat CRT and simulated stereo sound it was pre nicam excelent set looked very japanese high tec I got this in 1985
By 1995 the tube was getting tired and it was softfoucus I replaced it with a 28inch Philips TV still 4.3 as the widescreen model was about £1000 the TV was not as good as the 80s and the tube was more traditional 180 deg CRT it had a widescreen feature where a button on the remote control gave you a pillarbox efect ! this set was my first nicam set.

Obviously I don't remember correctly then

I don't recall having a 25" TV so probably 21. It was the one and only Sony TV I've had (and I've had a few) that broke down (only a faulty on/off switch).

Mine was Philips 17pt156b

The picture you linked to looked more like a 21 than anything else

Sony (like many others) had big problems with mains switches failing (which I suspect is a major reason you don't find many sets with mains switches now ), and at one time there was a major safety recall across a range of Sony sets.

Personally, I've always put the blame on the way Sony used the switches - most manufacturers fitted a knob on the end of the switch - so gave a direct push on the switch. Sony however fitted the knob as part of the cabinet, with a plastic disc on the inside that pushed the actual shaft of the switch, no direct connection between the two.

The exact same switch was used across a large range of manufacturers, and only Sony did a safety recall, Sony also had more switch failures than others as well - that strikes me as a more a Sony fault than a switch fault

A Phillips matchline 32" with stand, which the removals broke,it was a pain getting a replacement.

furguson tx9

and one of these i think we hired it from box in the late 90's when i was at uni

hahaha yes the price!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-CR...item4d1f0fca7f

All through the 90s I had a 15 inch NEC FST TV model FS-1502PI that I still have in a cupboard. Couldn't find any pics though and I can't be bothered to upload any. I must remember to get the Council to collect it, and my old DVD player.

I bought a 25 inch Finlandia TV with teletext in 1998 from Granada, Ex rental, it stopped working 2 and a half years later, so I scrapped it as the power supply went pop, before that I had a 14 inch portabal from Crown (Japan) I got as a present in 1991, which I scrapped about 6 years ago as it refused to come out of standby.

I bought a 22 inch Thorn Ferguson (it had 8 channels, teletext and Stereo sound, not Nicam) it had a wooden case, from a second hand shop in 1999. It had a funny smell while it was on but worked OK, I scrapped it because it kept losing the picture.
Last edited by jasonjimbob : 22-06-2014 at 19:45

And how long have you had your current set for?

I had an ex-rental 28" CRT TV, which seemed so big at the time that I told visitors that I wouldn't be held responsible for any radiation burns.

When was widescreen televisions introduced to the uk market?

BBC 1 started broadcasting widescreen via digital platforms in 1998.