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12-04-2005, 06:42 PM
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I've dreamt of TVs before, but it's almost always pretty weird. The last one I remember I was fighting off some contestant off Australian Idol with a pointy stick who was trying to stop me from taking a CT-100 out of a dumpster. Especially weird considering Australia didn't get color until 1975, so there's absolutely no reason for a CT-100 to be here.
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12-04-2005, 07:30 PM
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No reason for this set to be in Australia either:
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1948-Andrea-CVK12.jpg Someone emailed me last year from Australia who had come across a set like that one, wanting to know when it was made. So, a CT-100 could be there.
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12-04-2005, 08:39 PM
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Judging from some of the articles in various issues of Radio, Television & Hobbies (later Electronics Australia) on the difficulties in servicing and modifying foreign TV sets people did bring sets into Australia with their personal effects when they immigrated. From memory all that was usually required with mono sets was the installation of a locally made tuner and a step down transformer for American sets. Usually there was enough adjustment available to get a set intended for 60Hz Vsync to lock onto our 50Hz signal. The problems came later when someone needed to replace a valve that wasn't available.
While it is not impossible that there is a CT-100 out here somewhere I've got my doubts. As far as I know we never considered the NTSC system here. All the early color sets that I saw in magazine articles from before the introduction of color were sets imported from the UK. Some of the earliest color sets sold here were UK Decca sets fitted with a locally supplied tuner. These were hybrid sets with valves in the horizontal output stage. They were the only color sets I know of that were sold here with valves in them. I have seen one imported Rank Arena set from the UK that was originally all solid state, but gained a couple of valves after someone fitted a VHF tuner salvaged from a much older mono set. I see imported UK sets here from time to time, usually more recent ones that were used as-is with a VCR connected to the AV input serving as the tuner. I've seen a few Japanese sets here that were probably brought over by someone who wasn't aware of the differences. To most people they are totally useless here (100V, NTSC vs. 240V, PAL, and the TV bands are different). I bought one purely so I could run a Japanese Nintendo Famicon that only has an RF output. I've got several modified Famicons with AV outputs, but I wanted to keep one original and run it on a matching TV. So I bought a little 14" Hitachi in a red case that almost perfectly matches the Famicon case color. Strangely though in all my years spent at junk auctions, markets, and picking stuff up of the street I have only ever seen 1 American set. It was at a junk auction about 15 years ago. It's been a long time, but I'm pretty sure it was a Portacolor. Unfortunately I didn't buy it. Back then any dead color set brought at least $50. One of the regulars at the time probably bought it, and I dare saw he got a quite a suprise when he took the back off.
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12-04-2005, 10:11 PM
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12-20-2005, 03:36 PM
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My mother had roped me into going to a dinner party. I had to go down a bunch of back roads to get there & I was really upset because about having to mingle with all these people I didn’t know. After suffering for awhile I walk around to the back of the house & find they are holding a yard sale at the same time. And, yes, they have an old TV! It’s an early 60s 21” BW console with a safety glass & ebony cabinet. The set is on & showing a snowy picture. I tried to make out the brand name but it was cryptic. I determined that it was foreign. Then there was another set (or perhaps the first one morphed into it) and this one had TWO screens-no, wait-THREE screens! It was arranged into a sort of hearth, and in the dream I had seen this model before but not in operating condition. This one worked. The upper screen was about 5’ off the ground & was about 21” but very short; the screen below it was smaller & the one to the right of that was smaller yet. I think they were all just showing snow. It later came to pass that this wasn’t a TV at all; that the screens were some sort of special material and that real people were inside acting. Somehow the screens made it look like they were on TV. Then it was back to the dinner party, to socialize with folks I didn’t care to be with…
Explanation for the above? My mother called yesterday wanting me to go out New Year’s Eve. The back roads likely came from daydreaming about driving the 8 hours down to Dwight’s parents farm to rescue those TV’s! As for the multiple screens, I was just reading, in an old magazine about a prototype RCA had built (c.1970) with a 25” color screen plus 4 small BW screens. Then I was reading here on the forums the explanation of how modern projection TV screens work. Throw together all that, along with a nice, big bowl of oatmeal just before bedtime, & voila! Another crazy TV dream!
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12-20-2005, 06:47 PM
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