405 LINE TV FROM 1960.

Here's my HMV 1910 17" 405 line tv showing Test Card C and a car intereference suppression film.

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Science & Technology

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• 405linetv
• Testcard
• ClassicCars

[georgiegirlhiphops]

Like the tv set,

Thankyou for your upload.

Julie.

[FIFTIESCRUISER]

Thanks Julie.

[stentorp]

Thank you for posting this film. Most informative !! Great looking set.

[FIFTIESCRUISER]

Thank you, Glad you enjoyed it.

Cheers, Des.

[TashkentFox]

This christmas I'm treating myself to a 405-line TV and an Aurora standards converter.

[benkid77]

Fascinating vid!

The scene at the very end is hilarious. It may have been annoying to have electrical interference on the 405 system, but it was still pretty watchable! I mean you woudn't actually (completely) miss any of the programme.

God only knows what that annoyed gentleman might have done if he was ever to witness modern-day digital picture break up. I wouldn't want to be the one driving down his street as he's watching a low power 64QAM channel. :)

They had it good back then.

[klafong1]

@kh23797 Britain abandoned the use of VHF for television with the advent of color, and so the suppression issues were solved. However, in the Americas, these issues continued to exist on the low-VHF channels (2-6) until the switch to digital television or until most of the public subscribed to Cable TV. In much of South America, television was exclusively on VHF until the last 10-15 years.

[klafong1]

@Nokorola The suppressor was just a high voltage resistor that cut down radio interference by slowing down the electrical discharge through the spark plugs. Modern spark plug wires have the suppressors built-in (the core of the wire is actually made of a high resistivity material). If you measure a modern spark plug wire on an ohm meter, you will read something like 10,000 ohms.

[northerbrewer]

@kh23797

We didn't use the 405 here in Canada, but the first set my father had was a black and white 60's.

We got 3 chanels in those days.

The CBC, Radio Canada French service of the CBC, and CKSO TV a private station.

Then one day I guess it was the mid to late 70s I came home and Dad had bought a Sony Trinitron colour TV.

AND he a cable TV package.

I was amazed COLOUR and ever station you changed the tunner too ( up to 13 back then ) was a chanel

Amazing how far we have come

[kh23797]

I recall how 60's TV sets suffered suppression issues, a frequent nuisance with the old valve-based models. And there was the dreaded rolling picture (upwards or sideways) as the set warmed up, obliging the viewer to reset his Vertical or Horizontal Hold while craning his neck to judge the onscreen effect. In the UK we'd just BBC and one commercial TV channel, but we get dewy-eyed today pining for that lost 'Golden Era' of B&W 405-line TV...

[AbuAvital]

when was the film made?

[OrodesIII]

Whenever the street lamps came on on our road we got interference for about 3 minutes. Similarly, the picture got distorted rhythmically when an aeroplane passed overhead. TV had better programmes then.

[Skating4Passion]

can you still get these lines on old televisions today if so how do you set it up

[Dreamxtreme]

Nice Wall paper !

[wisteela]

Nice old set and interesting old film.

[filmnet]

@benkid77 When I was in halls of residence 8 years ago, the Ondigital picture would *completely* freeze up every time some people in another hall had a pizza delivery. The driver would leave the car running, and it just happened to be in the direction of where the aerial was pointing. It drove me nuts! But not to extremes!!!