R.I.P. the British consumer electronics industry. The Fergie TX was a pretty decent set in its day. When you consider stuff like the old Bush T22’s they were in a different league. Whilst on the subject of T22’s I still have a variable voltage PSU I built 33 yrs ago using the power supply transformer from one of these. Next to no one does stuff like this any more.
The "pick and place" machines for PCB assembly are extremely common for many years, but up close, it's pretty amazing how accurately the machines work with a mix of totally different components and even accounting for the board flexing.
Ex engineer I worked on these and the Philips models of this period , as others have said it's very sad to see that our strong home market television industry was fed to the wolves in favour of the dreadful rubbish we now import and throw away after a few years use when it fails.
As a modern day collector and enthusiast of this technology, despite being born in one of the very last years of it's relevance, thanks for the work y'all did, these things are pretty incredible.
@@ZnenTitanI might move to China I've been making stuff for years but here in the Midlands the industry's and government have left us high n dry. Where you could get a job easily there's not a great deal going on now. It's all zero hour contracts and agencies. I totally understand people who pack up and just get out of the UK
A long ago we had at home, a fine quality stereo system with turntable, a Fisher-branded, made in Japan, but the very turntable mechanism and all its precision parts, were built in England, which always caused a big great impression in me, greetings from Mexico..!
Probably a BSR or Garrard turntable. We led the world in record player manufacture in the 1960s and 70s, it's rare to find an old stereogram or music centre from that era without a British turntable fitted.
I just finished watching a 1950's television manufacturing process. It's amazing how much television manufacturing has changed in 20 years or so. I wonder where all the tubes went.
My Primary School had a Ferguson TX inside a wheeled cabinet with a Feguson Videostar VCR in a big lockbox, we knew when it was coming it was time for Look and Read
We had the one with twin stereo speakers, had great sound and the yellow/green/red LED bars for Bass/Trebble/Balance looked great on the second speaker. I think we had ours for about a decade with no repairs ever done to it.
Now people buy new tv sets every couple of years, not because they're broke but because they want to keep up with the Jones's. It's also worth noting that a 22 inch colour tv set from the early 80s cost the equivalent to around £850 Today.. You can buy a 22 inch LCD tv for less than 100 pound new today. Electronics were more expensive even the cheaper stuff, so you'd expect to get some years use out of it. Also worth mentioning is we didn't have 24 hour round the clock tv back then, today people can't even be bothered switching the tv off, it's left on most of the day, so gets a lot more use. My mother use to say.. That Televsion doesn't get switched on until 5pm weekdays, and we couldn't go up to our bedrooms and watch our own tv because we didn't have one. Now 7 year olds have tv's, DVD players, laptops and mobile phone's in their bedrooms. I had a radio cassette recorder and a windup clock
@@adrinathegreat3095 Yeah, we had no choice but to watch what our parents were watching back then. Luckily when I was 11 I was the only one who knew how to set the single event timer for our top loading VCR so I got to watch Jaws and Alien as a kid (pretty freaky!) LCD is fine for what it is, the problem with LCD/Plasma/OLED etc is for me they use utterly pathetic bargain basement digitizers to convert s-video/composite video....much worse than digitizers you could buy for Commodore Amiga computers in the late 80s. For that reason I only watch MP4s on my LCD and Plasma TVs. My Plasma TV cost 2000 pounds in 2010 but today a 55 inch LCD costs a quarter of that if you hunt around. Problem is most TV today is an exercise in profit generation NOT entertainment business so I wouldn't care about TVs....:the future is here it is called a tin of medium grey matt paint and a 720P DLP projector (Optoma only!!) and that costs about the same as a 40 inch LCD and you get a 120 inch image in most living rooms WIN :) now if I could just get my Atari 2600 to work with it hmmmmmmm.....
Yep, my parents bought our Ferguson TX in the early 80s and it lasted our family all the way through to the mid-2000s - unheard of for consumer electronics to last 20-30 years now! I niw have a couple of the big Panasonic Viera plasmas from the mid-2000s, they were super expensive in their day and still look and work great. Maybe the last decent reliable TVs ever made, as everything now comes out of Vestel's Turkish factory and is designed to break within a few weeks of the warranty expiring. May as well send them straight to landfill and cut out the middleman.
@@rich_edwards79 Don't laugh but my cat piddled on the corner of my Panasonic LCD from 2015, which although had an uneven backlight had a great picture for an LCD did everything you could ask like SCART RGB/Svideo/Composite video etc, but the engineer I spoke to said I wouldn't be able to find replacement LCD panel for this TV. What is annoying now is that all TVs are digital RF only (for Freeview) and HDMI so this really is the end for support for older stuff like PS2! Even worse is they cost MORE now. Even if a TV has an accident you won't get parts for it after the usual 3 year extended warranty crap timescale AND you will not be able to use a DVD player or older electronics that are not HDMI. Kind of a shame, this means the end for people using vintage tech being able to buy a new TV. All of my 16bit computers and consoles with SCART RGB cables looked fine on that Panasonic. The world economy is based on mass consumerism AND forced obsolescence by not keeping up manufacture of spares even if the TV works flawlessly for half e decade. This is the reason why we also had the Fergy TX 10 for so long and we never got that space age looking Nordmende TV with the fold out speakers, spares available for decades for the TX and very tolerant circuit designs. Now when retro console owners buy a TV new not only do you not get the sort of picture the game developers saw when designing those games using CRT monitors you also need to buy a SCART RGB to HDMI adaptor ont op of the already more expensive purchase price of a new TV. Probably why I couldn't find a used replacement on ebay for my Panasonic. I'd rather spend the money on a few new bulbs for my projector than a 500 quid 48 inch 4K TV with HDMI only which will be unrepairable within 3 years when the overpriced magic 3 year extended warranties run out. I really couldn't give a crap about 4K, I'd rather watch movies on my DLP Projector in 720p on a 120inch image. Blu-ray players are also annoying DRM'd to hell rubbish requiring constant updates to let you play OLD Blu-rays decently encoded DVDs on a good CRT TV via S-video/RGB SCART look as good as PS3 DVD playback via HDMI. Stuff sold to the masses today is indeed poor quality with bad design (PS3 DVD playback is composite video quality!)
We love those Ferguson tx range, never keen on the later 51j7 type. I still have a couple of them. Also have an old black and white thorn 1500 24” had them all years.
I have one which has no ferguson branding, labelled as a Thorn TX9. I got it for $59NZD, gonna try and get modern things to connect to it through a bunch of converters and a VCR haha
Perhaps if the consumer's were willing to pay top price for an average TV set there'd still be a British industry, but the British buying public demanded lower prices. Do you buy energy/ Fuel from a British company, buy British made clothes and cars, Morgan, tvr etc. Huge amount of British made things available to buy, but people wont pay the price and why should they
@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 1.40/2.01 - personnel installing electronics in tv boxes manually )) Many steps are not shown on video. Do not think that electonics was complete digital in that tv - so it had to be tuned after boards were sealed (so was in USSR when I worked in 1987-1988 as a electronics tuner)
We had a Sony trinitron colour television in 1987. Lots of memories mixed with that TV. Families were living together, heartiest love and affection were available at that time. But now a days world becoming more harder than the past and we lost everything, but that beloved TV is still running good. Sony TV quality is beyond description.
Supermarkets buying in bulk crap AMSTRAD , MATSUI and other cheapo de nasty brands often made in the sweatshops of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Putting it simply, we could not compete . Our labour , production and component costs were too high and as always the man on the street voted with his wallet . It would have been simply a matter of putting a higher tarrif or import tax on foreign products to save the industry ...Oh, no sorry..can't do that because some snail scoffing ,wine quaffing eurocrat calls this "protectionism" .
We had one of these in the 80's! lasted well into the late 90's without a thing wrong with it. That's when we only had one TV in the whole house. So when I could afford it, I got a Sony Trinitron portable for my bedroom, which again lasted for years. I miss all these well made, older sets. Now they're just ten a penny rubbish with no heart in them.
E davvero incredibile con che rapidità construiva le schede elettroniche della baze del computer dal 1984. L'industria aveva un senificato forte di construire televisori a quel epoca.
I wonder how many of these are in active service, not as TVs, but as monitor's for retro computers . Theres a video on you tube somewhere of someone with a 405 line Bush TV watching freeview (with a line converter)
I worked in panasonic crt factory as an engineer in the early 90s certainly didn't have robot's putting tvs in boxes , more like vacuum suction to top and .move boxes under them and place in boxes.
So did I... Very fond memories and a few of my favourite TVs I worked on was the PYE/Philips and the Sony Trinitrons. I own a clean fully working Sony KV-1330UB just for sentimental reasons. I also own some lovely radios too from back then for the same reason.
hmm. I just bought one of these, looks like the exact same model with all the same placements of controls and with the same wood-look parts, but without the ferguson branding here in NZ. Going to try hooking HDMI through an RCA converter, then through a VCR with RF output to the TV.
Why they didnt make crt tubes flat and square? Is this because how crt works or its just design? I mean crt has "bubble" in front and its not square. More oval. Why is that?
Can't be flat, needs a curve to keep every part of the screen same distance to the gun (more or less), otherwise you get funhouse mirror problems. Later ones was flat on the outside by making it really really thick. But that made it heavy.
There was a time when you could not buy a Japanese made set bigger than 20". I think possibly due to how the Pal system was licensed? I don't know. Whatever the reason, the big Japanese corporations overcame this by building plants in the UK. iirc Hitachi and Sony both in Wales, Toshiba took over the Bush (Rank Organisation) plant and I think JVC had a plant in Germany. All gone now. It was a great feeling as a salesman for Currys selling something that had "MANUFACTURED IN THE UK" written on it. And Britain made a huge amount of stuff back in the eighties. All Chinese now. Very sad.😩
Same happened here in Spain. Spanish makers were taken over by foreign brands. Inter was brought by Grundig, Sharp did the same with Elbe and Hitachi with Vanguard. Sony built a factory in Barcelona where Philips had one too, and Thomson had one in Madrid. I think Philips was the last to go.
Viendo desde Uruguay este video, aquí en la década del 80, Philips, JVC, y General Electric fabricaban televisores y se arman prácticamente todo a mano, salvo el " chasis" en el caso de Philips pues venían de Brasil que si tenía esa tecnología que muestra este vídeo. Había mucho trabajo gracias a esa forma de armar televisores en Uruguay, y como en el caso de Gran Bretaña con la famosa globalización todo se cayó en pedasos para terminar con empresas cerradas y miles de desocupados.
It's a real shame we no longer manufacture anything anymore in the UK, we made quality products UK citizens could be proud of. What do we have now? Foreign owned British brands with just a name for nostalgia purposes ie Standard Fireworks stuck on Chinese manufactured Black Cat Fireworks, unsafe products like the washing machines and tumble dryers that have spontaneously burst into flames, weaker European Standards etc plus mediocre cheap build quality and jumble sale cost components.
Or Mullard..made in the UK of course, Not Canada. PCBs were eventually built only in Enfield Noth London which originally had final assembly as well as Gosport which took over as the single final assembly factory after chassis assembly moved to Enfield. Wooden cabinets were made in Rayleigh Essex and later in High Wycombe together with plastic cabinets and small parts.
R.I.P. the British consumer electronics industry. The Fergie TX was a pretty decent set in its day. When you consider stuff like the old Bush T22’s they were in a different league. Whilst on the subject of T22’s I still have a variable voltage PSU I built 33 yrs ago using the power supply transformer from one of these. Next to no one does stuff like this any more.
The 80s techno music made this perfect
Art of noise rip off
The "pick and place" machines for PCB assembly are extremely common for many years, but up close, it's pretty amazing how accurately the machines work with a mix of totally different components and even accounting for the board flexing.
As an engineer in Radio Rentals for 36 years I really found that quite fascinating, shame it has all gone.
It is a shame that the video didn't show all the calibration part, the human side!.
Its a shame a robot took the job of so many men .. for one mans greed
@@dzhardlife6770 One Man's Greed? More like desperately trying to compete with Cheaper labour abroad while wages rose domestically.
@@boredfartless4221 Automation is more efficient which makes for cheaper products, which is better for consumers.
@@flyguille Yes ! Geometry and colorimetry, all that work bofore microprocessors...
Absolutely amazing it was always believed that British industry couldn't adopt automated production. This confounds it.
Class making tea and brexit lies
0:30 the rhythm between the robot and backround music is just so satisfying.
Brilliant! My dad was a Radio Rentals repair engineer, so this has extra meaning to him and me!
Ex engineer I worked on these and the Philips models of this period , as others have said it's very sad to see that our strong home market television industry was fed to the wolves in favour of the dreadful rubbish we now import and throw away after a few years use when it fails.
As a modern day collector and enthusiast of this technology, despite being born in one of the very last years of it's relevance, thanks for the work y'all did, these things are pretty incredible.
This particular set was very reliable. Thorn Rentals were the king back then and they had good retail sales too.
rest in peace the whole of the British radio industry.
Motorbikes, cars, planes, ships, rockets, trains and every thing else we use to make has gone, R,I,P
Were now the laughing stock for the world after we've given everything away !
@@marcusphoenixish If it makes you feel any better the states are right behind you. (Everything here is now made in China)
@@ZnenTitanI might move to China I've been making stuff for years but here in the Midlands the industry's and government have left us high n dry. Where you could get a job easily there's not a great deal going on now. It's all zero hour contracts and agencies. I totally understand people who pack up and just get out of the UK
@@marcusphoenixish More people from the UK now living in Canada or Australia than ever before, and Brexit is going to do anything.
A long ago we had at home, a fine quality stereo system with turntable, a Fisher-branded, made in Japan, but the very turntable mechanism and all its precision parts, were built in England, which always caused a big great impression in me, greetings from Mexico..!
And now Mexico makes a lot of the television sets.
@@infinitecanadian nah... we just assemble them, everything is manufactured in China.
Mexico made the old Microsoft mice and Keyboards in the 80s and 90s. Made in Mexico
Probably a BSR or Garrard turntable. We led the world in record player manufacture in the 1960s and 70s, it's rare to find an old stereogram or music centre from that era without a British turntable fitted.
I was working in a TV factory in the early 1990 as technician, now our factory is in ruin...
Betelgeuse 🧐🇬🇧😕😕😕😞😞😞
Sad
Да, это грустно, у нас та же история.
Same here, Fergusons Gosport until 1992.
What a great piece of film, takes me back to my days working in a Tv repair shop, had one or two of these for repair.
I just finished watching a 1950's television manufacturing process. It's amazing how much television manufacturing has changed in 20 years or so. I wonder where all the tubes went.
the CRT community would love to know of any stockpiles.
Back when families were together, neighbors were close to the heart, people were social in real terms
Really..
nope, even in the 70s we didnt watch tv with neighbours, they have their own tv..
@@jusb1066 have u read my comment?
@@jusb1066 but not in this part of the world..
People only used the neighbors TV to use ceefax teletext
These would be in high demand today for the retro gaming market.
infinitecanadian yeah i know :) need one of those for my raspberry with retropie
Paella fan I love CRT television! Analog is always the best.
Even a set with only TV antenna inputs?
@@lemons2300 I am wondering too. Most of these have only antenna input
@@asmrlife8819 I think I'd still keep one if I had room for 10+ TVs at home, which I don't.
My Primary School had a Ferguson TX inside a wheeled cabinet with a Feguson Videostar VCR in a big lockbox, we knew when it was coming it was time for Look and Read
I remember that too, back in the 1970's when lenny the lion was on in the daytime...
0:40 the placing of those caps synced the music so well.
1980 electronics plus 1980s music. Pure A E S T H E T I C
We had the one with twin stereo speakers, had great sound and the yellow/green/red LED bars for Bass/Trebble/Balance looked great on the second speaker. I think we had ours for about a decade with no repairs ever done to it.
Now people buy new tv sets every couple of years, not because they're broke but because they want to keep up with the Jones's.
It's also worth noting that a 22 inch colour tv set from the early 80s cost the equivalent to around £850 Today..
You can buy a 22 inch LCD tv for less than 100 pound new today.
Electronics were more expensive even the cheaper stuff, so you'd expect to get some years use out of it.
Also worth mentioning is we didn't have 24 hour round the clock tv back then, today people can't even be bothered switching the tv off, it's left on most of the day, so gets a lot more use.
My mother use to say.. That Televsion doesn't get switched on until 5pm weekdays, and we couldn't go up to our bedrooms and watch our own tv because we didn't have one.
Now 7 year olds have tv's, DVD players, laptops and mobile phone's in their bedrooms.
I had a radio cassette recorder and a windup clock
@@adrinathegreat3095 Yeah, we had no choice but to watch what our parents were watching back then. Luckily when I was 11 I was the only one who knew how to set the single event timer for our top loading VCR so I got to watch Jaws and Alien as a kid (pretty freaky!) LCD is fine for what it is, the problem with LCD/Plasma/OLED etc is for me they use utterly pathetic bargain basement digitizers to convert s-video/composite video....much worse than digitizers you could buy for Commodore Amiga computers in the late 80s. For that reason I only watch MP4s on my LCD and Plasma TVs. My Plasma TV cost 2000 pounds in 2010 but today a 55 inch LCD costs a quarter of that if you hunt around. Problem is most TV today is an exercise in profit generation NOT entertainment business so I wouldn't care about TVs....:the future is here it is called a tin of medium grey matt paint and a 720P DLP projector (Optoma only!!) and that costs about the same as a 40 inch LCD and you get a 120 inch image in most living rooms WIN :) now if I could just get my Atari 2600 to work with it hmmmmmmm.....
Yep, my parents bought our Ferguson TX in the early 80s and it lasted our family all the way through to the mid-2000s - unheard of for consumer electronics to last 20-30 years now! I niw have a couple of the big Panasonic Viera plasmas from the mid-2000s, they were super expensive in their day and still look and work great. Maybe the last decent reliable TVs ever made, as everything now comes out of Vestel's Turkish factory and is designed to break within a few weeks of the warranty expiring. May as well send them straight to landfill and cut out the middleman.
@@rich_edwards79 Don't laugh but my cat piddled on the corner of my Panasonic LCD from 2015, which although had an uneven backlight had a great picture for an LCD did everything you could ask like SCART RGB/Svideo/Composite video etc, but the engineer I spoke to said I wouldn't be able to find replacement LCD panel for this TV. What is annoying now is that all TVs are digital RF only (for Freeview) and HDMI so this really is the end for support for older stuff like PS2! Even worse is they cost MORE now. Even if a TV has an accident you won't get parts for it after the usual 3 year extended warranty crap timescale AND you will not be able to use a DVD player or older electronics that are not HDMI. Kind of a shame, this means the end for people using vintage tech being able to buy a new TV. All of my 16bit computers and consoles with SCART RGB cables looked fine on that Panasonic. The world economy is based on mass consumerism AND forced obsolescence by not keeping up manufacture of spares even if the TV works flawlessly for half e decade. This is the reason why we also had the Fergy TX 10 for so long and we never got that space age looking Nordmende TV with the fold out speakers, spares available for decades for the TX and very tolerant circuit designs. Now when retro console owners buy a TV new not only do you not get the sort of picture the game developers saw when designing those games using CRT monitors you also need to buy a SCART RGB to HDMI adaptor ont op of the already more expensive purchase price of a new TV. Probably why I couldn't find a used replacement on ebay for my Panasonic. I'd rather spend the money on a few new bulbs for my projector than a 500 quid 48 inch 4K TV with HDMI only which will be unrepairable within 3 years when the overpriced magic 3 year extended warranties run out. I really couldn't give a crap about 4K, I'd rather watch movies on my DLP Projector in 720p on a 120inch image. Blu-ray players are also annoying DRM'd to hell rubbish requiring constant updates to let you play OLD Blu-rays decently encoded DVDs on a good CRT TV via S-video/RGB SCART look as good as PS3 DVD playback via HDMI. Stuff sold to the masses today is indeed poor quality with bad design (PS3 DVD playback is composite video quality!)
That was a Ferguson 6103, TX10 chassis, we had one as well, my dad has fixed quite a few! They were relatively rare, even in their day!
The perception of the quality is in each stage of the production, the high technology that many other factory didn't addopted yet
That way to display the screen is very European, PAL/SECAM TV set fashion. It looks great! Modern shapes, minimalist, sophisticate, ellwgant and good quality aparience. American TV sets were different, very 70s design into 80s, very chrome parts yet, wooden cabinet look, not silver or grey front, and screen into a kind of frame allways.
©2021, Cristián, Santiago, Chile.
Just seems to me, the automated process of building this TV, is way more advanced than the TV itself 👍
Good quality sets my nan had one for years
Wow very cool ! Early automated electronics is a great pleasure to watch !
Great video! The machines make it look so easy. Hard to think this is heady for 40 years ago....
We love those Ferguson tx range, never keen on the later 51j7 type. I still have a couple of them. Also have an old black and white thorn 1500 24” had them all years.
quality made lasts very very long,i wish i kept one.
I have one which has no ferguson branding, labelled as a Thorn TX9. I got it for $59NZD, gonna try and get modern things to connect to it through a bunch of converters and a VCR haha
The Tx10 was A great swansong of the UK television industry think some were even used as studio monitors.
This is quality filming for the time 👍
Chris Bishop that’s what I thought
CRT with demagnetization coil .... beautiful memories !
Напоминает наши "Рубины" и "Рекорды", только тут "вкалывают роботы", а у нас все делалось вручную. Да и внутри были сплошные лампы-лампы-лампы.
Музыка классная) как будто включил кассету с боевичком 80 годов)
Фантастика! На это можно смотреть вечно! :)
Жалко что сколько европейских заводов которые делали качественную продукцию больше не существует
@@velementtomasz5728 Даа! Китай всех забадал! :(
We bought the 22" remote version in 1986!
R.I.P Thorn EMI & the rest of the UK TV manufacturing industry, now all Turkish Vestel junk....
Perhaps if the consumer's were willing to pay top price for an average TV set there'd still be a British industry, but the British buying public demanded lower prices.
Do you buy energy/ Fuel from a British company, buy British made clothes and cars, Morgan, tvr etc.
Huge amount of British made things available to buy, but people wont pay the price and why should they
Me
Most China made stuff from top brands like Sony and Panasonic and Samsung last way longer than 10 years. Even Apple lol.
not vestel junk, %90 of tv's are chinese junk.
I MISS THOSE TIMES 1988 1991 😍😭😭😭😭😍😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Ferguson made some real nice stuff especially their high end hifi equipment
It was quality
Worked in USSR on TV plant in 1988, TVs even looked almoust the same to those on video. No more USSR, no more that plant...
Um. Doing what?! Hmm 🤔
I didn’t see not one person in there! A whole lot of machinery!
@@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010 1.40/2.01 - personnel installing electronics in tv boxes manually )) Many steps are not shown on video. Do not think that electonics was complete digital in that tv - so it had to be tuned after boards were sealed (so was in USSR when I worked in 1987-1988 as a electronics tuner)
@@MrPegge yes the old CRT sets still had to be manually calibrated, the video doesn't show that.
We had a Sony trinitron colour television in 1987. Lots of memories mixed with that TV. Families were living together, heartiest love and affection were available at that time. But now a days world becoming more harder than the past and we lost everything, but that beloved TV is still running good. Sony TV quality is beyond description.
Load of crap.
How did we fail we where really good at making TV sets in the 80s.
Government sold us down the river again
Joining the common market killed British industry
Unions, politicians and a price race to the bottom.
Supermarkets buying in bulk crap AMSTRAD , MATSUI and other cheapo de nasty brands often made in the sweatshops of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Putting it simply, we could not compete . Our labour , production and component costs were too high and as always the man on the street voted with his wallet . It would have been simply a matter of putting a higher tarrif or import tax on foreign products to save the industry ...Oh, no sorry..can't do that because some snail scoffing ,wine quaffing eurocrat calls this "protectionism" .
There was a lot of good British tv firms at one time
We had a 14 inch version of this TV with dual power supply (AC mains & DC 12v) in Sri Lanka. Excellent tv
Rad!! Impressive robotic skills.
This looks like a porno for old televisions.
In spite of being a nostalgic guy, there's something I don't miss at all: CRT televisions and monitors.
MrGabehawk faaakkkeee.
Replace that with vinyl. Probably the worst hipster retro vintage tech of all time
This kind of automated machines in 80's???? 😲😲😲😲🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️
We had one of these in the 80's! lasted well into the late 90's without a thing wrong with it. That's when we only had one TV in the whole house. So when I could afford it, I got a Sony Trinitron portable for my bedroom, which again lasted for years. I miss all these well made, older sets. Now they're just ten a penny rubbish with no heart in them.
E davvero incredibile con che rapidità construiva le schede elettroniche della baze del computer dal 1984. L'industria aveva un senificato forte di construire televisori a quel epoca.
I wonder how many of these are in active service, not as TVs, but as monitor's for retro computers . Theres a video on you tube somewhere of someone with a 405 line Bush TV watching freeview (with a line converter)
Way better than cheap Chinese companies.
I wish Ferguson still made TV's. At least they were British and lasted for year's!
They do but by a China company.
I have one of these myself
Lovely set they are
crazy to think how long it takes to make those circuit boards even with automation
I still have an old tv in my garage, works great
Старые добрые трубчатые телевизоры качество цветопередачи супер у них
I’d forgotten how bulky old CRTs were!
I worked in panasonic crt factory as an engineer in the early 90s certainly didn't have robot's putting tvs in boxes , more like vacuum suction to top and .move boxes under them and place in boxes.
THD automatic placement machine. That's extraordinary!
What a piece work of engineering..great...👍
Estos tv son eternos.2021 siguen Funcionando.lo reparas y siguen 30 u 40 años más.grosos
Televisions sets that never broke...for many years
beautiful! what is the name of second song @1:30?
used to repair those back in the day
So did I...
Very fond memories and a few of my favourite TVs I worked on was the PYE/Philips and the Sony Trinitrons. I own a clean fully working Sony KV-1330UB just for sentimental reasons. I also own some lovely radios too from back then for the same reason.
learning to repair them now, lot of old TVs to repair and calibrate
What song 1:30 ? Please music name song
É tão bom relembrar o tempo antigo de profissão
Damn, the music is catchy :D
That's quite a Television set.
Красота!!!
hmm. I just bought one of these, looks like the exact same model with all the same placements of controls and with the same wood-look parts, but without the ferguson branding here in NZ. Going to try hooking HDMI through an RCA converter, then through a VCR with RF output to the TV.
ഹോ ഇപ്പോളെങ്കിലും ഇത് publish ചെയ്യാൻ തോന്നിയല്ലോ നന്ദി ....?
This is best tv for quality . sound and picture...👌👌👏👏👏👏👏
I used to be well pleased with my Fergie TX100 and 90!
Este video é um verdadeiro tesouro, retrata uma época dos televisores sem volta.
This is just so cool! that beat tho
All surface mount now with pick and place machines doing 5 components a second.
And machine minders on 0 hour contracts and minimum wage......
Excelente, perfeição e harmonia!
Why they didnt make crt tubes flat and square?
Is this because how crt works or its just design?
I mean crt has "bubble" in front and its not square. More oval.
Why is that?
Can't be flat, needs a curve to keep every part of the screen same distance to the gun (more or less), otherwise you get funhouse mirror problems. Later ones was flat on the outside by making it really really thick. But that made it heavy.
jw200 Existed Sony, Sinclair and Sanyo for CRT ultra-thin. First two CRT B/W and Sanyo colour very rare. I love ❤️CRT❤️
LCD e OLED 4K/8K are 👎🏼fuck💩
Tempo bom onde as TVs duravam uma vida agora se durar 1 ano temos que ficar feliz.
OLD...IS...GOLD
There was a time when you could not buy a Japanese made set bigger than 20". I think possibly due to how the Pal system was licensed? I don't know. Whatever the reason, the big Japanese corporations overcame this by building plants in the UK. iirc Hitachi and Sony both in Wales, Toshiba took over the Bush (Rank Organisation) plant and I think JVC had a plant in Germany. All gone now. It was a great feeling as a salesman for Currys selling something that had "MANUFACTURED IN THE UK" written on it. And Britain made a huge amount of stuff back in the eighties. All Chinese now. Very sad.😩
Same happened here in Spain. Spanish makers were taken over by foreign brands. Inter was brought by Grundig, Sharp did the same with Elbe and Hitachi with Vanguard. Sony built a factory in Barcelona where Philips had one too, and Thomson had one in Madrid. I think Philips was the last to go.
Even my Sanyo VTC5150 Beta video recorder was built in Wales.
@@video99couk We sold a ton of those. Fantastic machines for the money, but not enough Betamax rentals so VHS soon dominated
I MISS THOSE TIMES 😍😍😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Ça me rappel l'usine videocolor à lyon assemblage de tube cathodique dans les années 70
CRT's are Art!
Ótimo vídeo, nunca tinha visto produção desse tipo!
E a tecnologia já existe desna da revolução industrial só que os abestalhados pensa que esta descobrindo agora
رووووعه مع العلم هذا كان في السابق .اما الان فالمصانع عندهم لاتدخل العقل من حيث الدقه والسرعه والألات الرهيبه
Essas TVs eram um espetáculo.. Que saudade
Good job
Long years ago, the was British industry!!!!
Que tiempos aquellos y que ahora estas pobres tv's ya se ven en la basura.
Es una maravilla Cómo creció a pasos agigantados la ciencia en el siglo 20 lo sigue haciendo ahora en El Siglo 21
Perfect techno in 1980
The Ferguson TX with its inlet rectifier that would bake the PCB before blowing one of the four diodes.
What on earth are you talking about?
Ours lasted almost 30 years so they must have done something right.
32 years with thorn RR rentals last fergys l saw were Thomson Brant TVs and vhs s all. very sad no techs left working exstinct. if it goes duff.bin it
Now i am watching this video on my Lg 55 uh 635v :)
With hdmi input :)
this is like heaven
So finally the machines learned to dance
The music told me this was going to be high tech.
Trains of Canada la muerte no puede ser
1:30 music name please..
I dont know
Лихо так набирает!!!! 😀😀😀
ايام الصناعة الأصلية 👍
Viendo desde Uruguay este video, aquí en la década del 80, Philips, JVC, y General Electric fabricaban televisores y se arman prácticamente todo a mano, salvo el " chasis" en el caso de Philips pues venían de Brasil que si tenía esa tecnología que muestra este vídeo. Había mucho trabajo gracias a esa forma de armar televisores en Uruguay, y como en el caso de Gran Bretaña con la famosa globalización todo se cayó en pedasos para terminar con empresas cerradas y miles de desocupados.
It's a real shame we no longer manufacture anything anymore in the UK, we made quality products UK citizens could be proud of. What do we have now? Foreign owned British brands with just a name for nostalgia purposes ie Standard Fireworks stuck on Chinese manufactured Black Cat Fireworks, unsafe products like the washing machines and tumble dryers that have spontaneously burst into flames, weaker European Standards etc plus mediocre cheap build quality and jumble sale cost components.
and every TV tube that went into them was made in Canada.
Philips CRT most likely
Or Mullard..made in the UK of course, Not Canada.
PCBs were eventually built only in Enfield Noth London which originally had final assembly as well as Gosport which took over as the single final assembly factory after chassis assembly moved to Enfield.
Wooden cabinets were made in Rayleigh Essex and later in High Wycombe together with plastic cabinets and small parts.
Amezing manufactoring process.
OLD is GOLD 😀