I will never learn how to take decent live shots with my digital camera. Anyway, you get the general idea. My 630TS is receiving a local station on an amplified rabbit ear antenna.

I'm not that much of a sports fan, but with my wife out of town, this is a rare opportunity to watch a Big Game on a small B/W television without anyone laughing!

Phil Nelson

Hey Phil,

Just the way lots of folks watched football 60 years ago. Very cool.

-Steve D.

Just the way lots of folks watched football 60 years ago.
I just remembered this 1947 RCA ad, showing father & son watching baseball on a 630TS:

http://antiqueradio.org/art/RCA630TSAdvertisement01.jpg

Phil

...a Big Game on a small B/W.... As SteveD said, very cool.

Me too! Very cool! I just don't get why anyone would laugh at doing this. Well, yes I do.....

We take so much for granted while actually standing on the edge of having to re-learn how to make fire with sticks.

Oops; I missed the Super Bowl this year. I was busy sharpening pencils, then I decided to do something more interesting like reading the phone book.

Charles

Just as a side note here, I was at the bowling alley for league that evening, and of course they had the HD feed of the super bowl on the plasma tv in the bar, I thought it looked like crap, but that was probably because of the downpour. It's just interesting that i'm sure the super bowl is a big driver of sales for new sets, and it was probably a big bummer to a lot of people that ran out and bought a brand new TV for the game and ended up with the sub-par picture.

There was an article in the paper just prior to the game regarding the increased sales of new sets because of super bowl "show-offs". One guy had just shelled out $10K to have a big, big screen on Sunday. I could never have a party, even if I wanted to...my newest set, a 1990 19" Sylvania, would have me laughed out of the county!

Glad I am not the only one out there that watched on a vintage set. Pretty cool!

Glad I am not the only one out there that watched on a vintage set. Pretty cool!

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture
but it is a B&W set.

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture
but it is a B&W set.

That is really cool. WOW

60 years ago, we barely had running water inside a house to go to the bathroom but that doesn't mean I want to go back to that for poops and grins! lol.

That is really cool. WOW

I agree!! I've never heard of such a device. Can anyone elaborate?

I agree!! I've never heard of such a device. Can anyone elaborate?
Tubejunke,

This site may help:
TELEVISION: HOW COL-R-TEL TV COLOR CONVERTER WORKS
http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_color/colrtel_block.htm

-Steve D.

Oops; I missed the Super Bowl this year. I was busy sharpening pencils, then I decided to do something more interesting like reading the phone book.

Confess! You're my wife, aren't you? :p:

Me too, but with a slightly different twist er, spin. This is a 12 inch Philco 50T-1403 with a Col-R-Tel unit mounted on it. OK, so it's a color picture but it is a B&W set.

Wow. Give me more photos!

I didn't even bother. Since the only way the clowns, er.. Browns are ever going to get there is to buy tickets. Anyhoo, the Philco with the ColorTel is cool. Did anyone use CBS color to watch the game?

Wow. Give me more photos!

The photos which are here
http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_color/colrtel_block.htm
are the early restoration pics of the set displaying the NFL picture.

I got the Col-R-Tel unit in August, 1960, and originally installed it
on a Pilot TV-125. It has been installed on other sets over the years including a 14 inch broadcast monitor. Last year I decided to get it out of storage and make it work again, this time on the Philco, a set which seems to be the favorite for this conversion by those who know.

There is still much to do both cosmetically and electronically, but I had
a great time making it work well enough so I could watch the game on it.

I also built a solid state NTSC field sequential set from scratch about 5 years ago which is displayed on the Jim Hawes Mechanical TV website here http://www.hawestv.com/mtv_slides/benhamA.htm?

This set is a sort of test bed for my color wheel experiments and it changes
monthly depending on the new ideas I want to try. One I'd like to try is 'two-color' television as discussed in the 'Simplified Mexican Color' thread in the Audiokarma 'Early Color' section.
~Cliff

'two-color' television ... discussed in the 'Simplified Mexican Color' thread in the Audiokarma 'Early Color' section. ~Cliff

This thread is actually titled 'Mexican Mystery' and is here:
http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76990