I do wonder what was going through the designers' heads with that terrible screen to cabinet ratio. I'm guessing the same chassis was used with two different tube sizes and this was the smaller tube. What chassis is in it? Not a TV I've ever seen. Where are the picture controls?
If you search for "Rediffusion Durham" you'll see there's a TV with a 20" tube but a similar size cabinet. The 19" Murphy Acoustic has a large bezel around 19" tubes but none on 20" tubes (a 19" version gets smashed up in the BBC show The Changes). This answers your other question: it's pretty much a Bush TV161 with the A640 chassis with the brightness, contrast, vertical hold etc on the back. By the time this TV was made (1969) rectangular 20" tubes were the norm, but the tube in this set has a date code of 1967. Presumably there was a surplus of 19" tubes that were used for rental sets.
Is this based on a decca 30 series? Not sure if you have done any videos on the 30 series if so i would be very interested, Great channel for your reviews on the older sets. Thank you Nigel
Reddifusion I can recall the best picture on reddifusion and I recall mom renting b&w tv then colour tv it was like very first cable TV
I do wonder what was going through the designers' heads with that terrible screen to cabinet ratio. I'm guessing the same chassis was used with two different tube sizes and this was the smaller tube. What chassis is in it? Not a TV I've ever seen. Where are the picture controls?
If you search for "Rediffusion Durham" you'll see there's a TV with a 20" tube but a similar size cabinet. The 19" Murphy Acoustic has a large bezel around 19" tubes but none on 20" tubes (a 19" version gets smashed up in the BBC show The Changes). This answers your other question: it's pretty much a Bush TV161 with the A640 chassis with the brightness, contrast, vertical hold etc on the back.
By the time this TV was made (1969) rectangular 20" tubes were the norm, but the tube in this set has a date code of 1967. Presumably there was a surplus of 19" tubes that were used for rental sets.
Is that dual standard 405/625 TV because I saw BBC2 on there
Yes. It's from the late 60s. It's showing a 625 line UHF signal from a VCR, the video itself is from a PS3 showing a TH-cam video.
Superb
the old tellies weighed about a ton ! we had a fergusson slot t v had a metre on the back for 50p's/pound coins
Pound coins weren't invented when these TVs were in use?? We had one of these with 50p slot in the back.
How did you transmit reddifusion channel while it's 2023/24?
Same way you saw this video, it's a TH-cam video! It's a direct feed from a PS3 going into a VCR, which outputs the RF feed to the TV.
How do you get that bc i want one!
This is probably the last one in existence. They were all destroyed by Rediffusion in 1975, this one escaped somehow.
@@MegaWayneDyou are lucky!
@@Antoprod297 I'm not so sure. The amount of work this took to get going again including building a tripler and replacing every resistor...!
But Rediffusion TV in Hong Kong has changed to Asia Television. (Yazhou Dianshi/ATV)
Is this based on a decca 30 series? Not sure if you have done any videos on the 30 series if so i would be very interested, Great channel for your reviews on the older sets. Thank you Nigel
This one is based on a Bush TV161 with the A640 chassis. I don't have any Deccas. Yet...