Television History: Casio Pocket TVs from the 1980s with ARD

Vintage Television - Television History from right to left:

Casio TV 200 / Casio TV 20 (both from ca. 1985) and Casio EV 510 (ca.1998)

At that moment, these little handheld TVs receive ARD television on VHF ch E9 from Langenberg transmitter.
ARD is the 1st national TV station in Germany.

Distance Langenberg - Köln: ca. 85km

Unfortunately, Langenberg VHF ch E9 (ARD) will close down its analog transmissions up from 20.11.2007 after midnight. Terrestric transmissions from Langenberg continue broadcasting in digital DVB-T.
So it was the last chance to pick up a stronger signal with these small handheld TVs. Weak analog signals of ARD, ZDF and SWR-RP still can be received from Koblenz- transmitter (ARD only on VHF ch E6) and Schnee-Eifel transmitter which are in the neighbour-federal state. These transmissions will be digitalized in 2008.
FARE WELL ANALOG TV !!!

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[tarmotanilsoo]

That's sad... One negative side of analog TV switchoff is rendering portable tellies useless :((

[thelyniezian]

Your analogue TV has already switched off in Germany- in '07? The first one here was in 2008, but our area doesn't get switched off 'til 2012. So if you have any of these old things and want to get rid of them, send them to Britain!

[metalmanin]

i had a realistic pocket vision 5 and that was actually a casio tv and it used a/v inputs

[johneymute]

i allway's tout that crt tv,s will eath battery,s in seconds,and that it is thus too impossible to run crt,s on batttery's,but ,m wrong,trough it still uses more power then lcd,s

[kermit30au]

@tarmotanilsoo Hey there mate. I have a few old mini TVs and they are going off line soon too. One little trick if you want to keep using them around the house is to use a TV sender. I have one that transmitts everything my big plasma sees on the screen and these little guys can still be used around the house or outside on the patio.

Just an idear for you so you can keep using them :)

[holt3793]

i had a casio great 4 sneaking 2 work and watchin football damn digital tv

[thrillaboy123]

now u would have better reception

[tutorial15]

These tvs are good ?

[arsecrabs55]

I have a casio TV-20 and a Sony Watchman b/w CRT screen. As well as connecting freeview to them by 2012 you can play DVDs on them if you connect via a VCR's modulator which converts the digital to analogue which these TVs can process. Sort of defeats the portability but nice to keep old things working!!

[philipriding]

i have the casio tv 400 and a sinclair black and white tv. Very good but sadly wont work in 2012. Unless you connect to a freeview box.

[philosoma9]

Casio the good old days...  ;[

[26highstreet]

i love those old pocket tvs, i made one once but decided on a bigger screen, 32inch to be precise, it had a great picture but was to bloody big to put in my pocket