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P3D Re: OT British 405-line TV

  • From: Rob <lilindn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: OT British 405-line TV
  • Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 01:00:08 -0400
> The BBC (granted a politically-driven rather than market-driven system)
> maintained
> 405-line transmissions long after the introduction of PAL color
> transmissions.

    Independent TV continued its 405-line transmissions on VHF highband
as well, while BBC1 was on VHF lowband. 
> 
> Tony Shapps, or somebody, can help us out here, but I think the 405-line
> transmissions
> continued well into the '70s.

     From 1982 onward, a policy was institued in which if a 405-line
transmitter (BTW, Black-and white, with harder-to-synch positive
polarity video and AM audio) broke down, that is, failed to transmit for
any reason, it would be dismantled instead of being repaired.
     I remember the winter of 1979-80, sunspot-maximum years, when I was
able to listen to the audio portion of BBC-1 TV on a multiband radio -
from my home in Detroit :-)
     Rob
     "Everything I have is Y1.96K compliant"


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