Hi Adam, yeah me too addicted definitely...Last count about 20 plus old TV sets so that kind of says it!
I don't know if you have had a look at my blog and that shows about half of what I've got..there is still a few more to add when I get time.
It must have cost you a small fortune to have all three of them shipped to Australia, and New Zealand it'd be pretty much the same, thats why I haven't even looked into getting anything from overseas...cost and the risk factor of it arriving damaged.
We were pretty much the same here in NZ with television, didn't officially get TV until around 1960 and colour came in 1974 so no hyrid or full valve colour sets at all and like in AU all our early sets were rectangular CRT's also. Some very early round CRT UK sets did make it here, but have never seen one and being 405 line they wouldn't have worked very well here being 625 line.
The earliest NZ made TV set I own is a 1959 Pye which has a 90 degree CRT and is very English looking in its layout etc. I'm only just got them (two) recently so and yet to look at those too.
Cheers!
Glen
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Thanks a lot Glen,
yes, I'd call myself addicted! The Predictas have certainly created an impression at home, but I really want to restore them to their former working glory to fully appreciate them. If you're in NZ, you'll also understand the freight costs to get these beauties over. I've been lucky, all of my sets have arrived exactly as they were packed.
A colour roundie, I didn't know they even existed until I read various posts in this forum! By the time we had colour TV in AU, the tubes were well and truly rectangular. Even the early BW sets were mainly rectangular!
I was lucky enough to get an HMV rounded BW set, haven't looked at it yet, but it shouldn't be too hard hopefully as I have the squarer version alreay working.
Catchya,
Adam
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