Andrew's 1970's Japanese TV thread.

[AndrewM]

I've been accumulating several mid to late 70's Japanese sets recently that I want to share with fellow AKers. Rather than create multiple threads, I've decided to have them all collected together here.

All these sets are Australian market sets of Japanese origin. It's hard to love them as they're not Australian production or seem rare, but then I stop to think that these sets are all around 30 years old and need to be saved.

I've also got European and Australian production sets but they'll be for another thread.

As colour TV was not introduced here until 1975 we only just caught the tail end of the golden age of TV where CRT's still used convergence circuits (on the larger sets) and integration was not too far advanced.

Very few if any colour TV sets under 22" were manufactured in Australia and the majority of the surviving sets are of Japanese origin.

To start off I introduce the General GC-143 14" colour portable of approx 1977 vintage. I obtained this set from a fellow AKer and it is in working (just) condition. It has both VHF and UHF tuners and still has the "General" logo sticker on the case.
The General company later merged with Fujitsu to form Fujitsu-General.






The General!