Another TV graveyard found.

[Bobby Brady]

I would love to see the first color sets that hit Europe. Were the first color sets there round screens?
Thanks

[dtuomi]

Originally Posted by Bobby Brady

I would love to see the first color sets that hit Europe. Were the first color sets there round screens?
Thanks

I seem to remember hearing that there were roundie color sets in Europe. Early versions of PAL sets made by Phillips.

http://www.oldtechnology.net/
http://www.oldtechnology.net/k4.html

There are probably other examples out there.

David

[dr.ido]

Was the Philips K4 a production set that was sold to the public? I've seen mentions of it on various sites and they all (including the one linked above) say it is an experimental set. I'd love to see one up close sometime, but I doubt any every came out here.

[dtuomi]

Originally Posted by dr.ido

Was the Philips K4 a production set that was sold to the public? I've seen mentions of it on various sites and they all (including the one linked above) say it is an experimental set. I'd love to see one up close sometime, but I doubt any every came out here.

I'm not sure. It might be worth shooting that question over to the guy who runs the web site I linked to. He might know better. I'd be surprised if at least some sets with round tubes weren't made available to the public, perhaps just not the K4.

David

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by dr.ido

Was the Philips K4 a production set that was sold to the public? I've seen mentions of it on various sites and they all (including the one linked above) say it is an experimental set. I'd love to see one up close sometime, but I doubt any every came out here.

As far as I know, the Philips K4 was not sold to the public. When colour television starts in Europe in 1967, the actual Philips colour tv sets use the K6 chassis. The K4 was exported to Canada. Some of the remainig sets were fitted with a PAL decoder and were given to Philips engineers and workers. But they were not sold to the public.
No colour roundie was offered in Europe.

Eckhard

[tritwi]

Here in Italy the very first color tvs were mainly american sets adapted to our B/G 625 50Hz standard. Despite the fact that color was introduced only in 1976 there already were several color televisions around (It's a mystere why one should buy a color tv when no color transmissions were available...). In my area there were many Zenith (also roundies ) since there was a firm here in Florence that used to import and modify those early sets. Also other american brands (such Admiral,Philco,Emerson ) were imported and then modified. Many of the early color tv customers had multistandard Pal/Secam sets from Philips as the only color programs available during sixties were coming from the neighbour Corsica (France) or Monte Carlo. Most popular early color tv sets around were from Philips (K6/K7/K8/KM1), Telefunken (709/710 chassis). Most of all these were long gone when regular Pal color broadcasting started (too bad...) During late 70s and all 80s many american brands sold the use of their mark to italian factories so we had plenty of italian tvs badged with american names (philco,emerson,dumont,admiral).Some of these still survive...