Soviet console

[yagosaga]

In 1984 I spend one week in the USSR, in Moskow. I have seen there color tv sets, mostly Radugas, hybrid sets and solid state. The picture quality was OK. Fourteen years before, the Sovjet color TV sets had problems with reliable color tint and with shunt regulators.

- Eckhard

[John Pinckney]

Wasn't elimination of phase (tint) errors supposed to be one of the goals behind the development of SECAM? I mention this as SECAM was of course the color system used in Eastern Europe until quite recently when there was a big switch-out to PAL! As a missionary serving in Austria back in 1980, I only got to see color TV behind the "curtain" when visiting Prague (Praha). (The hotel we used in Budapest only had an obviously elderly (It looked like an American set from the mid 1960's!) B&W set of the 19" variety which made a weird long-duration "zaaapppp" noise every few minutes!) The set in the hotel lobby looked OK to my fellow missioners, but I saw not only serious color registration errors but a definite lack of sharpness. When we got back home to Vienna (Wien), looking at our National color set (We also had two Hornyphon B&W sets...) really brought this to light. And, both sets were supposedly 625 lines. But, watching the 1980 Summer Olympics live in both Prague and Vienna showed a noticeable difference. What we saw in Prague was not unlike an NTSC VHS tape recorded at the "SLP" speed... 240-260 lines of resolution or thereabouts...

Originally Posted by yagosaga

In 1984 I spend one week in the USSR, in Moskow. I have seen there color tv sets, mostly Radugas, hybrid sets and solid state. The picture quality was OK. Fourteen years before, the Sovjet color TV sets had problems with reliable color tint and with shunt regulators.

- Eckhard

[Chad Hauris]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

RW6ASE is apparently the ham radio call sign of the site's owner. It is interesting how things come out when you use a Web site to translate from Russian to English. One page says he "collects lamp tape recorders and radioreceivers". A "lamp tape recorder" would probably be a VCR, I expect.

The idea conveyed by the "lamp" translation is probably "electronic tube"
I've heard a lot of people call tubes "bulbs".

[NowhereMan 1966]

BTW, IIRC, I think there were some Soviet made TV sets made to the NTSC standard that were exported to Cuba.

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

RW6ASE is apparently the ham radio call sign of the site's owner. It is interesting how things come out when you use a Web site to translate from Russian to English. One page says he "collects lamp tape recorders and radioreceivers". A "lamp tape recorder" would probably be a VCR, I expect.

"lamp" = "tube", I think - doubt he collects tube VCRs