I am posting this outside my usual thread as I thought North American readers might be interested to see it.
Dynatron were a premium brand in the UK dating from the 1950s but really had their heyday in the 1970s. They are more known for music centres and radiograms (what US members call a console I think) which were often, although not exclusively dressed up in antique style cabinets. I knew that also did televisions although whether these were of their own manufacture I cannot say.
But this is the first time I have seen such a combo and it must have cost a fortune when new. Dynatron was expensive, but matched with this VCR ....
In some ways this unit is rather reminiscent of the earliest TV sets where, in order to get a larger size screen, the tube was so large it was mounted vertically in a cabinet which was around the size of a radiogram (think 1930s console) and the picture reflected off a mirror mounted on the underside to a lid on the top.
The VCR is a Philips N1501 - the first domestic video recorder in the UK I believe was the predecessor to this model the N1500, which I first saw when my school bought one in around 1974 or maybe 1975. The cassettes were pretty much square but around twice the thickness of a VHS. Of course the whole system became obsolete in a couple of years time when VHS took off and, at the time at least, Philips continued with their own systems.
By the way, the reason I believe that VHS became so popular here, when it was launched around the same time as Betamax, was that a couple of the large TV rental companies adopted VHS for their rental machines. At the time VCRs were so expensive and rather notoriously unreliable that people chose to rent rather than buy and, for the most part, all they could get was VHS. Of course VHS and indeed the TV rental companies are all consigned to history - well this TV console has its own place ion TV history
What it would take to get this recorder and TV going again I cannot imagine.
Al
Dynatron were a premium brand in the UK dating from the 1950s but really had their heyday in the 1970s. They are more known for music centres and radiograms (what US members call a console I think) which were often, although not exclusively dressed up in antique style cabinets. I knew that also did televisions although whether these were of their own manufacture I cannot say.
But this is the first time I have seen such a combo and it must have cost a fortune when new. Dynatron was expensive, but matched with this VCR ....
In some ways this unit is rather reminiscent of the earliest TV sets where, in order to get a larger size screen, the tube was so large it was mounted vertically in a cabinet which was around the size of a radiogram (think 1930s console) and the picture reflected off a mirror mounted on the underside to a lid on the top.
The VCR is a Philips N1501 - the first domestic video recorder in the UK I believe was the predecessor to this model the N1500, which I first saw when my school bought one in around 1974 or maybe 1975. The cassettes were pretty much square but around twice the thickness of a VHS. Of course the whole system became obsolete in a couple of years time when VHS took off and, at the time at least, Philips continued with their own systems.
By the way, the reason I believe that VHS became so popular here, when it was launched around the same time as Betamax, was that a couple of the large TV rental companies adopted VHS for their rental machines. At the time VCRs were so expensive and rather notoriously unreliable that people chose to rent rather than buy and, for the most part, all they could get was VHS. Of course VHS and indeed the TV rental companies are all consigned to history - well this TV console has its own place ion TV history
What it would take to get this recorder and TV going again I cannot imagine.
Al
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