Interesting Emerson 405 line - Videokarma.org TV - Video

***Eric H*** · #1 12-01-2003, 02:11 AM

Most British sets look completely weird to me but this one is a U.S. brand and looks pretty much the same as the one I have.

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Chad Hauris · #2 12-01-2003, 09:25 AM

It looks like an American unit that has apparently been slightly modified with the British horiz/vert freq.'s (10,050? hz horiz. and 50 hertz vert). Maybe it has a slightly different flyback transformer. The channel knob looks like U.S. style to me. It seems like there were maybe only 3 or 5 at the most British TV channels at that time, maybe some of them correspond to the US frequencies?

#3 12-01-2003, 09:51 AM

Did anyone see that red "Red" (Russian) portable on eBay? This sorta remided me of that.

The other week when all those documentaries about JFK were on TV some of them mentioned that Oswald worked in a radio or TV factory and they showed film of some assembly lines. Looked very crude, about what I would expect of them........but am wondering if indeed this was actually shot in Russia and not just stock film of somewhere else. Anyone know?

Anthony

domfjbrown · #4 12-02-2003, 03:00 AM

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Originally posted by Chad Hauris
The channel knob looks like U.S. style to me. It seems like there were maybe only 3 or 5 at the most British TV channels at that time, maybe some of them correspond to the US frequencies?

This is my first post (and I've only got one telly - a modern one!)...

Us here in blighty just about had 3 channels by the mid 60s, but didn't get channel 4 until 1982. Channel 5 (for the 3 people in the UK that can get it via a normal aerial

) went on air in 1997. I still can't get it now!

The only way any more of those channels would be used is by using an analog cable adaptor I guess - not around until the early 80s in the UK...

Could this be a telly someone brought over to the UK from the States, and then modded personally? Emmerson is primarily a US brand isn't it? I did hear of a fellow hifi forum person having an Emmerson tuner that they'd picked up in a carboot sale though, so maybe they sold more stuff over here than I thought...