Italian "TV Atlantic" pedestal TV ?

[Phil Nelson]

Don't remember seeing one of these before. Was it some kind of Euro Predicta knockoff with a rectangular tube?

Hard to tell from the photos, but the channel tuner looks like A-B-C-D, etc.

http://cgi.ebay.com/TV-ATLANTIC_W0QQ...QQcmdZViewItem

Phil Nelson

[Chad Hauris]

I remember we had a discussion about one here a while back, wonder if this is the same one?

[Phil Nelson]

I tried searching this forum for "TV Atlantic" but nothing popped up.

I'm curious about this set. Sent a message to the seller, who sounds ignorant. Says he thinks it was made around 1950, but that can't be right.

Phil Nelson

[rld-tv01]

Other Predicta color rectangular tube clones.

http://www.predicta.com/index.shtml

http://www.predicta.com/gallery.shtml

[jpdylon]

those new clones are pretty slick looking.

Perhaps not real vintage, but color, and probably 110% more reliable than the originals!

[Tubejunke]

I would advice anyone even thinking about this to leave it alone. Unless you just have money to throw away. The main thing is the fact that it is European. It may or may not have a selection for our 110 ac line voltage. In Europe its 220 and the television and some other video equipment like VCR's are not compatable to our signals.

When I lived in Germany the ONE thing you never saw GI's bring home was their euro tv. Most of us actually had TVs that were set up to US standards with the exception of line voltage. That way we could tune in Armed Forces Network and play english speaking video tape. Some of us bought eurosets to watch German TV which showed an occasional nude woman. In the mid 80's that was still a novelty. Even back in the States we were just getting good and used to cable television and the whole concept of nudity on a television set.

Anyway, I think this nut is just praying that some sucker will lay down a grand or two for this junk. I hope its not one of us.........

[tubesrule]

It's actually pretty straight forward today to get any set to work anywhere in the world. If the line voltage is wrong, step up/step down transformers cost about $50, and standards converters to convert between any two standards can be used to operate the set.

Guessing by the letters on the channel knob, this set probably used the French System L which was 625 line, and perhaps 819 line.

Darryl