Britains' oldest working non-mechanical TV?

[Steve Anderson]

Found on the Beebs' web-site...is it Britains' oldest working non-mechanical TV? Somehow I think a few might beg to differ.

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

Steve A.

[gary]

It wouldn't have been so bad (albeit probably wrong) if they had said it was the oldest "non-mechanical TV" rather than just TV...

Not even a mention that the set has a switch on it to receive 240 line television from Baird's system from the same period...

[Steve Anderson]

....if they had said it was the oldest "non-mechanical TV" rather than just TV....

Probably the result of heavy-handed editing, what was shot might have resulted in an hours worth of material which was chopped up for a few minutes worth of results. Very common.

Steve A.

[Dave Moll]

Not even a mention that the set has a switch on it to receive 240 line television from Baird's system from the same period...

Actually, I understand from Jeffrey (the owner of the set) that the switch is not electrically connected!

[gary]

Not even a mention that the set has a switch on it to receive 240 line television from Baird's system from the same period...

Actually, I understand from Jeffrey (the owner of the set) that the switch is not electrically connected!

True, which means it is not actually working either!

Any perceived criticism of Jeffrey was not intended, I was merely pointing out that the BBC News item was somewhat lacking (perhaps understandably) in precision.

It does seem common with these antique sets that whilst they have the 240/405 line switches, and that (presumably) the 240 line circuitry was originally present, it is generally not restored.

I asked Peter Scott about whether his HMV 901 set could replay a 240 line signal, to which he replied:

"There is no problem in adjusting the line / frame rates to 240 / 25 but my set doesn't have the additional circuitry for maintaining line rate through frame synchs and I don't have a source of Baird standard signals. It would be nice to try it though."

So I have been thinking about how 240 Baird might be created (cheaply) with a PC - in fact creating it is easy enough but playing out is the problem until they bring out 1.92 MHz (est.) sound cards

There is some talk on the net that some PC TV Capture/Output cards can be modified to suit - anyone know anything about this?

[DrZarkov]

Yes, there is such a project: http://www.g1jbg.co.uk/fothtv.htm