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Colly0410 · #1 10-06-2017, 11:36 AM

Up until 1955/56 TV's were only fitted with a low band tuner, they were called "BBC only" sets. When ITV started on high band in 1956 all new TV's could receive both low & high band. You could get ITV converters to change a high band channel to a low band one, sometimes you got BBC breakthrough though..

Electronic M · #2 10-06-2017, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Colly0410

Up until 1955/56 TV's were only fitted with a low band tuner, they were called "BBC only" sets. When ITV started on high band in 1956 all new TV's could receive both low & high band. You could get ITV converters to change a high band channel to a low band one, sometimes you got BBC breakthrough though..

It would be funny if that ever happened in time to hear John Cleese say "...and now for something completely different." in a Monty Python episode.