
I really used to enjoy the test card music... Shame no TVs of the period had decent enough audio systems to really take full advantage of the quality of it...
CitroJim wrote: 12 Oct 2017, 09:11 I so well remember Test Card F from my TV servicing days... Happy days they were
I really used to enjoy the test card music... Shame no TVs of the period had decent enough audio systems to really take full advantage of the quality of it...
white exec wrote: 12 Oct 2017, 12:47 Jim, you are right, most tv sets couldn't do justice to the audio, with plasticky cabinets and slim oval speakers. There were a couple of exceptions, one of which was the "painted Murphy", offered in a fashionable series of matt-satin shades of green, red, orange, white, blue - and 'wood'. IIRC, these all came with an 8x5" forward-facing speaker, and sounded halfway decent.
Can't recall that Chris, maybe not in our region perhaps...white exec wrote: 12 Oct 2017, 12:52 And weren't daytime episodes of Thunderbirds also used in the 70s by tv engineers to check out picture quality? IIRC, they were originally shot on 70mm filmstock, so image quality was as good as it could be, and streets ahead of the VT then available.