Spending time with Fred and Barney

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,

Hi Alan, you are right of course, for instance Marcel's TV Museum shows a prototype Philips set with a 21" RCA round CRT :

http://www.marcelstvmuseum.com/photoalbum30.html

All color CRTs in Europe were imported from the US (roundies only) until 1963 when a new factory built by a Philips subsidiary (La RadioTechnique-Compelec) started producing the rectangular A6311X in Dreux, France. They had 4 years to gear up production for the French/German/English start of color in the fall of 1967.

in my previous post with the data on the Oceanic French color TV, i was stating that in the 1968/69/70 lineup, all CRTs were rectangular.

I extracted the Oceanic spec sheet from 14 pages of a French magazine "Le Haut-Parleur" which published a yearly Radio/TV special issue listing all models on the market.

I sent the 14 pages to our friend Old_TVNut, maybe he'll include them on his site.

Best Regards
jhalphen