Watching the SuperBowl on your vintage TV?

[bgadow]

There was an article in the paper just prior to the game regarding the increased sales of new sets because of super bowl "show-offs". One guy had just shelled out $10K to have a big, big screen on Sunday. I could never have a party, even if I wanted to...my newest set, a 1990 19" Sylvania, would have me laughed out of the county!

[Dan Starnes]

Glad I am not the only one out there that watched on a vintage set. Pretty cool!

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by Dan Starnes

Glad I am not the only one out there that watched on a vintage set. Pretty cool!

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture
but it is a B&W set.

[roundscreen]

Originally Posted by cbenham

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture
but it is a B&W set.

That is really cool. WOW

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by roundscreen

That is really cool. WOW

I agree!! I've never heard of such a device. Can anyone elaborate?

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

I agree!! I've never heard of such a device. Can anyone elaborate?

Tubejunke,

This site may help:
TELEVISION: HOW COL-R-TEL TV COLOR CONVERTER WORKS
http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_color/colrtel_block.htm

-Steve D.

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by cbenham

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture but it is a B&W set.

Wow. Give me more photos!

[Big Dave]

I didn't even bother. Since the only way the clowns, er.. Browns are ever going to get there is to buy tickets. Anyhoo, the Philco with the ColorTel is cool. Did anyone use CBS color to watch the game?

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by yagosaga

Wow. Give me more photos!

The photos which are here
http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_color/colrtel_block.htm
are the early restoration pics of the set displaying the NFL picture.

I got the Col-R-Tel unit in August, 1960, and originally installed it
on a Pilot TV-125. It has been installed on other sets over the years including a 14 inch broadcast monitor. Last year I decided to get it out of storage and make it work again, this time on the Philco, a set which seems to be the favorite for this conversion by those who know.

There is still much to do both cosmetically and electronically, but I had
a great time making it work well enough so I could watch the game on it.

I also built a solid state NTSC field sequential set from scratch about 5 years ago which is displayed on the Jim Hawes Mechanical TV website here http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_slides/benhamA.htm?

This set is a sort of test bed for my color wheel experiments and it changes
monthly depending on the new ideas I want to try. One I'd like to try is 'two-color' television as discussed in the 'Simplified Mexican Color' thread in the Audiokarma 'Early Color' section.
~Cliff

[cbenham]

Originally Posted by cbenham

'two-color' television ... discussed in the 'Simplified Mexican Color' thread in the Audiokarma 'Early Color' section. ~Cliff

This thread is actually titled 'Mexican Mystery' and is here:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76990