Originally Posted by
Pamplemousse
Four channels, Terry? I remember rushing home from school to see the launch of Channel 4!!
My interest in TV and video equipment goes back much further than this: as I write this, I'm looking at the back of a floor-standing Bush TV with a 12" round tube, built in 1950.
In the period in question, colour came late to our home - it was only when my brother forced the issue with my father by renting a Pye "StudioColour" set that we had a colour telly. This'd be around, oh, 1978/9? A video recorder followed in 1982 - a Sanyo Betamax (we'd briefly had a Philips N1502 but it was troublesome). By then the Pye had been sent back to the rental company as we'd acquired a monster 26" SABA TV in a cabinet with sliding doors from the mother of the local butcher. It had ultrasonic remote control and a polished real wood case too!
When I got married, we had a secondhand 26" Telefunken TV, and a secondhand Sony C5 video. The Telefunken was replaced with a secondhand Pye in a cabinet from the same source as my parents' SABA, and that had Teletext too!
When NICAM came along, we bought a brand-new Panasonic "Prism" A1, which had true high-fidelity sound and a 24" screen. This'd be about 1990. We also bought a JVC HiFi VHS machine to go with it.
Whilst the JVC has long been pensioned off the Panasonic TV is still in service, still giving excellent sound and picture quality.