kuba combo

[Aage]

Well, jah, in Germany they use the PAL (or is it SECAM? don't think so) system for TV, not NTSC as we do in North America.

You don't need to be an expert to know that...

Here's my fav Kuba:

[Old1625]

Very nice! But those were the days when we were trying to let the whole world know we had a television set.

I had a very early '60s Zenith color console that took up an acre of my livingroom floor. It was very much an in-your-face color TV set. Worked well enough--until some bottom screen data later broadcast started being shown, and then the round window became a serious minus.

I now have modern TVs that I try to hide as much as possible, as they are not the highest-tech stuff I have.

I try to hide as much of that stuff as well.

Times have changed.

I appreciate the peek down memory lane (i thinks she kin to Lois--mayhap...?), but my current telly is nestled in a bookshelf where I was able to back-cut into a closet space behind to accommodate the set's depth. Such rear access makes hookup changes much easier as well...

But--oh man!--thanks so much for sharing this! I love it! So much a part of television history, it is!

PS: Aage, love your sig as well!

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by Aage

Well, jah, in Germany they use the PAL (or is it SECAM?

Both until 1990. West Germany had PAL, East Germany had SECAM. After 1990, it was PAL. Now we have DVB-t and DVB-S. DVB-H ist just coming.

- Eckhard

[sampson159]

he told me that the tv worked and he used to watch sanford and son on it. i knew about the different systems and just wondered how this could be. thought he might be pulling my leg a little. the model is the" sorrent60 ".thanks guys. i learned something knew!

[hposter]

There had to be a USA version of the set, which used the NTSC system.

I had negotiated a sale in Oregon, a couple years ago, and another in the south, and each seller assured me they were working 'in the good old days'.

Too many people would have to be untruthful...which leads me to wonder why these individuals would have bought, and saved the sets all these years, if they never worked! Remember, in the old days, even an Art Deco TRK-12 was ugly to most people, and you could fit 10 TRK's in the space of one of these sailboats! It would have been easy to just tell me, "It never did work in the States, but it looked good, so I saved it!"

A good way to test this theory, like we do with vintage cameras...if the controls and intructions are written in English, and there are references to USA makers or importers, then it's a USA distributed item, and would have worked in the USA. Also, the tuner should have 12 channels, possibly with UHF, something that a European TV should not have.