Supermarket chain Aldi are selling a plug in RCD adaptor in store as I write this and looking at it it looks very familiar. This mains RCD adaptor looks identical to models sold by various retailers including Screwfix who sell it as the Masterplug RCD Adaptor. Given that Aldi market themselves on their low prices it is amusing to note […]
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When did you last buy a VHS video tape and what brand was it? I guess it was was probably too long ago to accurately remember when, but do you remember if it was a Scotch brand video cassette? For many years Scotch were the market leaders in video tapes and backed their products up with a ‘lifetime guarantee‘. To […]
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These days the Bush brand name is owned by the parent company behind Argos which is why they sell so many Bush products. One popular one is the Bush Retro FM Radio model number TR82BLU. This is a FM/MW/LW radio which can either be run on mains electricity or a nine volt PP9 battery. With its large tuning dial and […]
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I recently wrote about an old Sony salespersons training video that demonstrated the Sony LV-1901 combined Betamax video recorder and Triniton TV. I have since found the review below of the vintage Sony LV-1901.
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Well here is a piece of technology history. The video below which I found on YouTube is a Sony Betamax training film used to show sales people how to demonstrate the new Sony Betamax video recorder, in this case one combined in one unit with a Sony Triniton television set. I believe the machine in the film is the Sony […]
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Technology has moved on at an amazing pace and today tiny integrated circuits are taken for granted but it was not so many years ago that our televisions and wireless sets (radios) contained large glowing thermionic valves, or vacuum tubes as our American cousins called them. Here in Britain Mullard was the best known brand for radio valves. The film below […]
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While looking for something else I came across this old television advert on YouTube and thought it worth sharing. It features Raymond Baxter using a test card to explain the benefits of buying an ITT colour television. Raymond Baxter was a well known television presenter who was probably best known for being a presenter on the BBC technology programme ‘Tomorrows […]
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There are a fascinating array of old corporate films making there way onto YouTube and one such is the video below from the late 1950’s promoting RCA Victor television sets. The American RCA Victor company came into existence in 1929 when RCA (Radio Corporation of America) acquired the Victor Talking Machine Company. Having reverted back to the RCA name the […]
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Back in the early 1990s I worked for a time for a high street television retailer which disappeared years ago and I will not name. This was the era when VHS video recorders were commonplace and the only way for folks to time shift TV programmes, hard disk PVRs and services like the BBCs iPlayer had not been invented. One […]
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Founded by Captain Stanley Mullard the Mullard Valve company became one of the major names in the manufacture of thermionic valves, or vacuum tubes as our American cousins called them. The Mullard name also became synonymous with the manufacture of cathode ray tubes used in television sets and they made other components such as capacitors too. The giant Dutch Phillips company was […]
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