Spending time with Fred and Barney

[John Marinello]

Early porthole?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by John Marinello

Early porthole?

Very early...predates mechanical TVs by thousands of years. Back then they made a picture by having a humming bird fly in from the studio and wave a lightning bug around the screen.

[oldtvman]

Until later in the 60's if there was a color program on, you generally didn't have to worry about another color show being on. The TV guide had a section by the index that would show color programs coming on for the week ahead.

[Tom9589]

No typo. Look more closely at the ad. They show both transistors and tubes at the bottom of the ad. This set contained both transistors and tubes.

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,

Thanks to Tom9589 for correcting, the Oceanic TV had 30 tubes & 7 transistors.
UHF tuner was transistorized, from memory, nothing else.

Best Regards
jhalphen
in (deserted) Paris
France