The End of the STB!

"charles" wrote in message
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David Butler wrote:


Mine was in a Bakelite box with Red EF50's.

Of course the silver ones were best!

no they weren't. Sylvania made the red ones which were a higher spec
version.

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"


I thought that Sylvania made the equivalent of the Mullard EF50.

The silver ones were - I believe - exactly the same specification as the red
ones.

However the silver ones were best as they were made in the UK.

Sylvania was Yank stuff!

Tee Hee

David

On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:27:27 +0100, Terry Casey
wrote:

Bill Wright wrote:
"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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The simple translator was, of course, a transmitter, if not well shielded,
and the leaky coax of the time, even if properly connected, could still
radiate a potent signal, so that many viewers found their BBC reception
severely interfered with (even replaced) by the ITV signal from next door!

These boxes were in use for a surprisingly long time. Some people bought
single channel tellys very late in the day ("ITV -- it'll never catch on!").

Snip

Bill (born 1949)


I don't think that many had much choice, Bill!

ITV was authorised by the Television Act 1954 which received the Royal
assent on 30th July.

ITV started (In London) on 22nd September 1955, so that didn't give
manufacturers much time to design, build and market receivers for the
new service!

Don't forget that all of this happened not long after the biggest sales
boost that television had ever had in this country - the Queen's
Coronation in 1952 - so there were an awful lot of nearly new (most
people expected a 10 year life from their exceedingly expensive purchase
in those days!) BBC only TVs around at the time of the ITV launch.

Terry (born 1944)

I have nothing to add except for this:

Mark (born 1971)

We only had 3 channels y'know! Until that new fangled Channel Four
came along.
Marky P.

"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:27:27 +0100, Terry Casey
wrote:

Bill Wright wrote:
"Terry Casey" wrote in message
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The simple translator was, of course, a transmitter, if not well
shielded,
and the leaky coax of the time, even if properly connected, could still
radiate a potent signal, so that many viewers found their BBC reception
severely interfered with (even replaced) by the ITV signal from next
door!

These boxes were in use for a surprisingly long time. Some people bought
single channel tellys very late in the day ("ITV -- it'll never catch
on!").

Snip

Bill (born 1949)


I don't think that many had much choice, Bill!

ITV was authorised by the Television Act 1954 which received the Royal
assent on 30th July.

ITV started (In London) on 22nd September 1955, so that didn't give
manufacturers much time to design, build and market receivers for the
new service!

Don't forget that all of this happened not long after the biggest sales
boost that television had ever had in this country - the Queen's
Coronation in 1952 - so there were an awful lot of nearly new (most
people expected a 10 year life from their exceedingly expensive purchase
in those days!) BBC only TVs around at the time of the ITV launch.

Terry (born 1944)

I have nothing to add except for this:

Mark (born 1971)

We only had 3 channels y'know! Until that new fangled Channel Four
came along.
Marky P.

I remember the afternoon when channel four came on the air,
they played the entire fanfare instead of just
the four notes you get with the logo.

Something else I remember about the 405 days,
even if they could get both channels some elderly
people would keep the set permanently switched
to one if them (invariably ITV) because turning
over could be difficult, several clunks of the turret
tuner required with intermittent noisy contacts,
and fine tuning was usually required to eliminate
sound on vision or vision on sound.


--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"Marky P" wrote in message
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: I have nothing to add except for this:
:
: Mark (born 1971)
:
: We only had 3 channels y'know! Until that new fangled Channel Four
: came along.

My Grandparents lived out in rural eastern North Carolina and purchased
their first television set in 1960. Reception in the area allowed for 1
channel with decent/clear reception out of Petersburg, Virginia, 1 channel
fair to bad, out of Portsmouth, Virginia, and 1 occasional channel outta
Raleigh, North Carolina. Then in 1969 or so a local man borrowed a bunch of
money and purchased a used radio transmission tower, 175' high or so and
rented high land to erect it on. He got it up and festooned with antennas
and signal boosters and started the local *cable TV* service. They went
from 1 good channel to 15 or so, all with good signal, and cost about
$7/month which was good value. This was before satellite dishes and the big
*cable tv* providers.

"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
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Graham. wrote:

I remember the afternoon when channel four came on the air,
they played the entire fanfare instead of just
the four notes you get with the logo.

They played it a lot during the breaks as well, when they hadn't sold
any adverts.

--
Alan Pemberton
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
To e-mail me directly, please visit
http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/index.html#Mail-me

They did some cheap tape and slide type ads on 4, I suppose
we would call it PowerPoint now, I remember because a
friend of mine bought some airtime and invited me round
to impress me.

Another random thought: "Mondays Newcomers"
--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"Low Life #3" wrote in message
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"Marky P" wrote in message
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: I have nothing to add except for this:
:
: Mark (born 1971)
:
: We only had 3 channels y'know! Until that new fangled Channel Four
: came along.

My Grandparents lived out in rural eastern North Carolina and purchased
their first television set in 1960. Reception in the area allowed for 1
channel with decent/clear reception out of Petersburg, Virginia, 1 channel
fair to bad, out of Portsmouth, Virginia, and 1 occasional channel outta
Raleigh, North Carolina. Then in 1969 or so a local man borrowed a bunch
of
money and purchased a used radio transmission tower, 175' high or so and
rented high land to erect it on. He got it up and festooned with antennas
and signal boosters and started the local *cable TV* service. They went
from 1 good channel to 15 or so, all with good signal, and cost about
$7/month which was good value. This was before satellite dishes and the
big
*cable tv* providers.

In about 1963 I had a penpal in Long Island NY and we exchanged
newspaper TV guides. I was impressed by the number of channels
he could get, only 2 were available across the UK at the time.


--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:58:29 +0100, Graham wrote:
I was impressed by the number of channels he could get

Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 ???

Or were there more at that time?

"Brian Gaff" wrote:

That is your Lotte

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