Which? magazine rates a couple of Samsung 32” sets above anybody elses’, but complains about colour accuracy on both.
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The more dimming zones the better, full panel lit better than edge lit, and so on. Well, OLED is out below 42”, HD should be a given, so you have a choice between plain old LCD, and the various formulations with fairy dust (Quantum Dots, in other words).
I do still miss the little dot the picture would shrink to, and eventually fade away, when you switched the TV off, though. (I will save the further relevant nostalgia for another post). But the V14 that Pye brought out next was so unreliable it nearly did for them, and it was a struggling Pye of Cambridge, now 60% owned by Philips Electronics, that I joined in 1972.
Of course, today you would get rather more than two channels on a 405-line black and white picture, but at least we never needed a soundbar with it 😛Īs to the reliability you mention, redchiz, we were lucky with this set just the odd valve replacement from time to time. If you have ever wondered why old people talk about ‘turning over’ the channel, it’s that knob on the side, from the days when ‘remote control’ meant Mum or Dad commanding one of us kids to cross the room and turn it.Īnd I remember the cries of ‘fourteen inch heads’ when somebody blocked your view of it, which is how I know what the screen size was.ĭad bought it outright (or possibly on HP, but it certainly wasn’t rented) for 80 guineas, which was the old way of making prices look slightly more attractive.Īdjusted for inflation, that’s around £2,300 in today’s money, or about exactly what you would spend for a premium main family TV now.
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