I guess you could say I was an "early adopter" of stereo tv. I was a real MTV nut back in the early 80's (MTV was a very different animal than it is today). In this area, the cable company did FM simulcast. There was 2 channels, one for MTV, the other for any stereo program they decided to broadcast. There werent many other programs. All you needed was a stereo. I heard there was stereo TV broadcasting going on in some of the major cities, but they still hadn't hashed out what the standard would be for sure.
When a standard was finally adopted, suddenly network tv, and MTV were in real stereo tv. I went out and bought a "tv stereo" tuner at rat shack. It has an analog dial and a tuning knob. I know it sounds really impractical, but if you were recieving stereo tv in this area, you had cable. If you had cable, you had a cable box, if you had a cable box, you could just leave the rat shack thing on channel 3. It worked great. It even sounded pretty good.
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old _tv_nut said ... TV stereo has stage-size mismatch problems if you have a small screen - enough speaker separation for decent stereo and the sound image is much wider than the picture; or use the built-in speakers and get little or no stereo effect.
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Very true. Someone would walk across the screen, and they would be walking across your whole house, taking about 8 foot steps. It was like the tv producers were trying to make the stereo part do stunts. It was extremely annoying to listen to on stuff like sitcoms. I was back to mono in a hurry for anything that wasnt music.
jc