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Old 03-23-2018, 05:30 AM
Colly0410 Colly0410 is offline
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Here in Britain I'd say the Sony KV 1300's & KV 1800's were best, they sort of converted PAL to NTSC to get round the PAL patent's & it worked brilliantly. My parents had a KV 1800 in 1972'ish & it was still working perfect in 1994 when Mam passed away. It was UHF only with a rotary tuner as there were never any colour transmissions on VHF & Britain became a de facto UHF only country in the early/mid 70's. Colour didn't fire up in Britain till 1967 & then only on BBC2, BBC1 & ITV fired up in November 1969 in the main population areas then was rolled out to the rest of the country in the 70's...

In the late 60's there were some dual standard (405/625) colour sets that were right beasts, they were very unreliable as they had mechanical switching to change from one standard to another. In 1969 they started making single standard 625 UHF only sets in both colour & black & white & they became more reliable...
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