G'day Larry, I'm Troy and I'm from Australia mate
! I'm not much older than hotrod54chevy, I hit 24 in October.
I'm personally fascinated with early television, video cameras and video recording technology, I especially love to get my hands on as much early live colour videotape recordings of the late 50s and early 60s as possible as it's soooo interesting seeing reality from over 40 years ago in high quality as I've seen too many scratchy B&W kinescope films of that era and use to think that's the quality of live television back then hehehehe
. Anyways seeing these early TV sets and cameras and live TV shows on quad videotape and film being brought back to life is bloody awsome and I say "good onya" to those putting in the hard yakka into getting them up and going
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Australia was the last to get colour, colour started here 19th October 1974 on an part time basis until the opening day 1st March 1975 which all programs went colour. But we had experimental colourcasting in the 1960s.
Next year is Australia's 50th anniversary of television and at the Sydney Powerhouse museum there's going to be a lot of television related gear on display including the 1930 Baird Televisor mechanical set and a 1938 Marconi electronic B&W TV set. And of course I'm going up there to see these fantastic pieces of early TV technology, hopefully there might even be a roundie colour set imported for display too.
Lastly I'm not a TV collector as I have no room to store them but would love to collect if I had the room, I'm a vintage video collector and I have a website
http://70scountdown.50megs.com/ which features all my video gear, it's about finding lost episodes of my favourite 70s Aussie rock show "Countdown" which involves looking at 70s vintage format videotapes to find recordings of the show on.
Cheers
Troy