Domestic Console TV: Valradio Projection TV
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This trader advert from
December 1950 pushes the projection TV in the wordiest and most technical
fashion imaginable. Who could be without a 'Blocking
Oscillator'?
The first 19" x 14 ¼" flat Screen
Projection Television Television engineering of the highest order housed in a cabinet having
clean, functional lines, coupled with the FIRST features indicated above,
make the New Valradio 21-Valve Superhet Receiver something unique in
Projection Television. It is the nearest approach to the Director of
Television’s ideal of a 20in. screen, and provides a truly brilliant
picture. The specification as follows further confirms this view:-
Blocking Oscillator and ringing choke; 25 kV EHT supply; 260 square inches
of picture; Volume, Contrast, Focus and Brilliance controls on front
panel; Line amplitude, line hold, frame amplitude and frame hold easily
accessible at side together with access to mechanical focussing of
projection unit; aerial input 75 ohms Co-axial on to termination strip to
which attenuators can be fitted if signal strength is excessive; Walnut
Cabinet 42 x 20 x 26in. wide, on easy-run castors; vision and sound
interference suppression; constructed in three units consisting of power
unit, receivers and time bases linked for easy examination and servicing
outside the cabinet itself Power consumption only 190 watts. Models available: All models identical with the exception of the power unit. Valradio Limited, 57, Fortess Road, London, NW5 GUL 5165. |
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