And your 1960s-70s AWA P1Q

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"I'd rather have a CRT than nothing" - me
"people just throw working CRTs out, it is NOT FUNNY!" -me

At this stage it'd be best to take one photo from each member, up to a maximum of 13 in total. The Astor may be your best choice as it'd be a rarer (and more interesting) set. Up to you though.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Brad,

The Astor is one of my rarer sets, though it is hardly the poster-child of it's model. I know one or two other collectors on here have better examples, complete with the front grille (which is regrettably missing on my unit).

Chris

They were never solid state till the late 90's
when they were able to ditch the Cathode Ray Tube.
You can't have it both ways It means they were lying.

I'm still thinking my early/mid 1970s PYE 12G13 and 1973 PHILIPS 02TA122 would be good examples form my collection, for this "television of the week".

The PYE is a Japanese solid-state set, with the Philips being an Australian-made solid-state set. There's a page of technical information on the Philips here:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_02ta122_12p.html.

I'll hopefully also be getting a red & white early 1970s AWA P5Y portable as a part of a trade with Nathan, which is an Aussie made set. It'll be a good one for this too.

Chris

They were never solid state till the late 90's
when they were able to ditch the Cathode Ray Tube.

I am not sure whether plasma screens are classed as solid state or not though they are technically a matrix of cold-cathode valves. They work on a similar principle to magic eyes, minus the filament of course. They perform much better than LCD screens, having the ability to refresh a lot faster. The down side is that they use more electricity but there are pros and cons with all electronic technologies.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Bah! never looked into how they work, or LCD for that matter.
We have Plasma in the lounge room,
but it's the LCD monitor I spend more time in front of,
and I was more than happy to see the end of CRT monitors.

If you buy a cheap monitor today from Officeworks,
you are now more likely to get an LED monitor.
Now that has to be all the way there!

LED, in that respect, is currently a misnomer. The screens they refer to as LED are still LCD however they are backlit with LEDs instead of fluorescent tubes as the older LCD screens were.

Screens on some mobile phones and other devices with very small screens are referred to as AMOLED screens and are a matrix of LEDs known as amorphous organic LEDs. More on that here.

One advantage with plasma screens is that they are not backlit. This is what creates the situation where black parts of a picture are actually black instead of dark grey. When pictures on a plasma screen contain a lot of black they use much less power because the black pixels are not enabled by the driver card and all you are looking at is the rear of the glass panel, painted black.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

Nice, ours does do that. Ours can burn as well,
If we leave the news channel on too long,
it's static borders tend to stick around, but they do go away.

Out of curiosity, was there any progress with this idea? I now own a 1958 AWA Radiola 205CW, which would be another good television set for this.

Chris

Radio of the Week will be replaced with a new 'system' in the new year, along with a revamp of the whole site and one final major upgrade to the ageing Hansard CMS software before I get off my quoit and finish development of what will ultimately replace it. I am not sure what yet to call it (perhaps receiver of the week) but I want to stretch the 52 photos out to 104 so the cycle of receivers goes over a two year period instead of just one year.

Early in 2014 I will ask if anyone is willing to donate photos and information.

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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...