Westinghouse K840CK15 Restoration

[jhalphen]

Hi Marshall,

Wow, 15 minutes of pure bliss ! and beautiful photography.

Love the tiny Standard Radio AM/FM "Micronic Ruby", have one myself.

To complete your World Class collection, i would add to the "wish list" :
- a Philco Apple tube beam index color set
- the Sanyo 30CTV1 3" color beam index WatchMan
- a Sony 19" Chromatron
- a Sony analog HDTV studio monitor, 1125/60, 16/9 ratio*

*can be found, often quite cheap, but weighs 150/300 lbs depending on screen size. Resolution is jaw-dropping for a CRT based monitor.
Saw these here in Paris when new (1986) at Captain Video, the TV production house set up by US entrepreneur David Niles who had obtained on loan from Sony Broadcast Japan a full HD studio including 3 cameras & 3 VTRs*.

The resolution was so incredible that you could see the upper lip "fuzz" on a young blonde framed as a news anchor. Today's 4K and maybe 8K doesn't achieve the same.

*VTRs : modified SMPTE 1 inch/Type C machines had 30 MHz Y bandwith !

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France