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South West England Vintage Television Museum |
Updated: 28th July 2007
This page contains some links that I have found useful or interesting over the years. Apologies if I've missed you out in the latest update - I'll put everyone in that I've promised next time.
TV Ark - A depressingly professional site for all things related to TV programs, Adverts, Public information films etc. etc. Great stuff.
Marcel's TV Museum - A big collection of old Televisions, Videos and other related stuff on Marcel's excellent Dutch site.
Ian Watson's early Photography, Sound and 405 Line Television - Lots of extremely interesting information and pictures from a fellow collector, Ian Watson. Look out for pictures of Ian's very rare 405 Line Pye experimental colour set.
Michael Van Der Smeede's Old Video's - Lots ofexcellent piccies of old Philips videos on Michael's page.
LabGuy's Old VTR's - Loads of Vintage AmericanVideo's on this excellent American site.
Paul Stenning's Vintage Radios - Tons of information on old radio repairs, valves etc. Very good indeed.
Steve Pendlebury's Old Tellys Site - This is a site dedicated to the collecting and restoration of Old and Vintage TV Sets. Steve Pendlebury provides practical and theoretical details on the workings from 405 to Early Colour Sets as well as some amusing sections.A well thought out site with lots of techie-tips. (Steve says...) :-)
*New site on its way soon...
The Meldrum Home Page - An excellent site full of information on TV past and present, particularly the bits in between theprograms. Also home to the Test Card Gallery.
Andy Beer's Home Page - Lots of pictures and information from another fellow enthusiast Andy Beer. Extremely interesting.
Dave Grant's Test-Card and Murphy Radio Page - This page is the creation of Dave Grant (Designer of the legendary "Dinosaur" 625 line to 405 line standards converter, VHF television modulator and Test-Card generator (among other things.)
The PAL-Site- Tons of information about the Beta, Video2000 and Umatic video systems in theUK and Europe.
The Great Australian "Countdown" Hunt- Australian site by a great chap called Troy, looking for lost episodes of "Countdown" (Old Oz pop-music programme). Excellent section on old VCR formats, and look at the some of the place names in the "About Myself" section. Mole-Creek, Zeehan, Culburra etc. etc. Wow.
Soviet Home Video- Russian site with lots of good pictures and information about various Russian VTRs. Mostly in Russian, but some pages in English. Site written by an excellent chap called Konstantin.
Jon's Valve Page - Another collector of old relics. Some excellent circuits to build too.
Des's 405-TV Page - Des is a fellow collector of old TVs. This site has lots of excellent pictures of unusual sets from yesteryear. (Is that a real word?)
TotalRewind - A virtual museum of vintage video technology. Unfortunately, it's much better than my efforts on these pages. :-(
A Prarie Home Companion- Garrison Keillor's fantastic radio program from Minnesota. (Sky Channel872, Sundays at 11:00.)