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Originally Posted by Steve D.
Being seen in Scotland it is very plausible that it was an early Baird field sequential color set. The British electronics co. Pye used a field sequential system to telecast an experimental color broadcast of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth in 1953. Doubt the set seen in Scotland was one of the two 1953 color sets which used a crt to display the field sequential image. But who knows? Here is a link to more info on this system: http://www.earlytelevision.org/briti...erimental.html
-Steve D. |
I don't see how it could have been a crt set; it definitely had a 3 coloured segmented wheel set above a light bulb, probably very high brigtness as it was designed to project an image onto the inside of an opaque screen on the front of the set.
Although it looked brand new, negligible dust inside, and beautiful cabinet the owner had never switched it on and had no intention of ever doing so.
He was obsessed with early TV's and wrote a couple of books about them, but I think he got this set after his last book was published.