Low band TV in Britain.

[Colly0410]

Originally Posted by Colly0410

England has a history of older TV's not being able to receive new stations, you had the BBC only sets not able to receive ITV in the late 50''s/early 60's, (no high band tuner) then 405 lines VHF only sets not being able to receive BBC2 on 625 lines UHF in the late 60's/early 70's. Then more recently the digital changeover, but you could & still can buy cheap digital converters, I've got 4 of them, 2 with RF outputs for my really old TV's (1971 Elizabethan & 1985 NEI) that don't have SCART or HDMI inputs...

Up till the early 1950's you'd have TV's that were fixed tuned to a certain low band channel. If you bought it in London area it'd only get channel 1 & if bought in the Midlands it'd only get channel 4. If you moved area I presume you'd have to sell your old TV & buy a new one, I don't know if they could be converted to another low band channel...