Speaking of 23" B&W Sets...

[Kiwick]

Originally Posted by dr.ido

I can't find the thread now, but I seem to be remember one of the Italian posters (tritwi?) saying that B&W sets latest longer over there than perhaps anywhere else. That 23" B&W sets were common well into the 80s with some having digital tuning and remotes while retaining a hybrid tube chassis. If anyone has pictures of such a set I'd like to see them.

The latest I've personally seen would have been a batch of early 80s 23" B&W monitors that I found in the early 90s that came from a race track where they were used to display race results from a videotext based system, but they don't really count as they didn't have tuners.

I once read on a British forum that one of the TV rental firms there had a number of customers that refused to pay the increased license charges for color sets. When it was no longer practical to maintain the existing B&W sets they had to supply color sets with the disabled chroma decoders. I wonder if a cheaper B&W TV license still exists and if any are still on the books today.

It was me that said this!

I have a nice 1983 19" REX with a hybrid chassis, remote and digitally controlled varactor tuning, i'll post some pics of it ASAP,

I also found many more but of course i didn't keep them all, the latest hybrid chassis set i found was from about 1985-86

Grundig, Philips, Nordmende and other European makers also still made 23" sets into the mid 80s, they switched to a 100% SS chassis in the mid 70s though, some even had AV inputs!

The very last Italian made 23" set i've seen was a Mivar from about 1990, it had a small SS chassis the size of a postcard!, and, of course, a Russian CRT

The reason behind this is that many European countries had cheaper TV licenses for B/W sets, Italy retained the B/W license until 1992, after this, of course, a trainload of B/W sets went out on the curb, and i did score some really nice 60s ones back then.