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A few years ago a friend from India paid a visit. He saw my RCA B&W console (1957 vintage) and talked a bit about TVs. I turned it on, and he was amazed a little bit that it actually worked (albeit the CRT needs a brightner). I recapped it. We used to work together doing early HDTV R&D about 15 years ago.
He said something about similar TVs in India when he grew up there (he's roughly my age, so that would place it in the 60's to early 70's). Calcutta area, near Bengla Desh.
Emailed another friend (who is a hard core NY Yankees fan) a picture of the above TV set with a baseball game on the CRT. He was amused to see a modern baseball game (must be that games in the day used different camera angles, as well as no electronic graphics showing base runners, scores, the count and so on) on a vintage TV set.
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