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Old 25-01-2019, 19:37   #158
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Re: An email from Neil Berkett re: VM HD Channels

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
I asked someone about this and he said that, if your parents had of been on cable, you might have been able to get BBC2!
This was 30 years before cable reached them.

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Also, my own research shows that some dual standard TV's were sold with a VHF tuner only with the idea being that a seperate UHF tuner could be purchased and added later on. You learn something new every day!

https://www.transdiffusion.org/2017/...to-625-line-tv (section 17).
Good find. Yes, that was exactly the situation. Our TV had the 625 line circuitry, but needed a tuner upgrade. I think my dad felt it had been missold.
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