FYI: first TFK PAL color tv set on 'bay

[Bobby Brady]

if you please.

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by Bobby Brady

if you please.

#3.

[truetone36]

What can I say? That's a beautiful set. How is it performance-wise?

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[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by truetone36

What can I say? That's a beautiful set. How is it performance-wise?

The performance is bad. The picture is somehow wishywashy, and the set is more than those of other brands susceptible to repair. This might indicate that the German engineers were not so familiar with color television technique like the American engineers with much more experience.
Usually the first German color tv sets not as reliable as the American sets. Power consumption was between 300 and 400 watts, and due to the very compact housing, the heat accumulate inside. The heat on the back side is hot enough to make fried eggs.
The PAL system was famous for its true colors (in comparison to NTSC). But the problems of bad reliability, of control drifts and misadjustment made them worser than NTSC sets of this era.

Eckhard

[yagosaga]

The next Telefunken PALcolor 708 is on 'bay, #290060892061. This set is in worse condition. A hole was burnt in the board under the RGB output tubes and the chassis board is brittle. This is what I meant in my last message.

Eckhard