Oldest TV found in London home

[Notebook]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8159774.stm

They don't make them like that anymore, can't get the wood.

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[liber]

Wow,working and after 70 years...nice machine.

 

[Notebook]

Yes, a friend is into old radios, but dabbles a bit in old tellys. Must prod this toward him.
Dangerous machine, it probably has no earth connection, and if it ran off a two-pin mains plug with no key, it could put the live connection onto the chassis, rather than the neutral.
At least it has a wooden cabinet, and looks like a piece of furniture, rather than a bus timetable display...
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[Andy44]

Impressive, and cool that he can get it to work with modern signals. Although I'm surprised he even risks it at all. Getting parts for that would be tough.

 

[Notebook]

A friend was less impressed than I:-

Thanks for the news link, well a bit of a sweeping statement from old Boris.

I know that man, he's a member of the BVWS (old farts vintage wireless), and what a surprise he just happened to have his old tele hooked up to an 'Aurora' standards converter. Hmm now let me see who was it I saw advertising the import of these boxes from the US?

Sure his tele was pretty old, but there are earlier versions even some working Baird 'televisors'. Still a nice working projection box.

Pity its not in colou...

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[doggie015]

How did he hook up the digital set-top box?

 

[Notebook]

One of these:-

http://www.nommie.co.uk/jeffrey/aurora2_converter_review/aurora2_published.pdf

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