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Jeffrey Borinsky with his 1936 TV and its digital box
Britain's oldest working TV has been found in London.
The 73-year-old Marconiphone 702 TV has a 12-inch black and white screen.
It was made in November 1936, the same month the BBC television service from Alexandra Palace was first broadcast, and cost 60 guineas.
It has been restored by engineer Jeffrey Borinsky, of North Finchley, who bought it 10 years ago. "I still enjoy watching cartoons from the Thirties, which the original owner might also have seen on the set," he said.
The set is also likely to have screened George VI's coronation in 1937, the 1948 London Olympic Games and the Queen's coronation in 1953.
The TV was uncovered in a scheme to show even the oldest TVs can be converted to receive digital signals and Mr Borinsky has it connected to a digital box.
Reader views (1)
As a TV engineer, I am curious about what broadcast standard was used whn this set was built and how this TV can be used to watch modern broadcasts, even with a digital converter. IS the same braodcast standard still in use? Wat the set modified? WAs the converter modified?
- Charles Repka, East Windsor, NJ USA
