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2004
Early Television Convention The 2004 Early Television Convention was held Saturday,
April 24, and Sunday, April 25, at the Early Television Museum. There was
a swapmeet and auction, presentations by collectors, and a buffet dinner.
On Sunday collectors had an opportunity to chat
and see the sets in the museum's collection. For more pictures, see the
Audiokarma
site and Steve
Dichter's site.
A highlight of this year's convention was the demonstration of CBS
field sequential color on the museum's 1951 Gray Research monitor and on
John Folsom's 1949 CBS RX-41. Darryl Hock demonstrated his NTSC
to CBS converter, which allowed attendees to watch broadcast programming on
the sets.
Here is a schedule of the Convention's events:
Saturday, April 24
8:00
– 9:00
Flea
market setup
9:00 – 11:30 Registration and Flea Market
11:30 – 12:30 Buffet Lunch, screening of the film
"TV Comes to London"
12:30 – 2:45
Presentations
Visionette Receiver
and Camera – Dave Johnson
Sanabria History
Display – Dave Johnson
General
Electric Octagon Scanning Disk Set - Steve McVoy
1938
7 inch GE Prototype Set – Darryl Hock
RCA TT-5 Advertising
Display – Darryl Hock
Original Indian Head
Test Pattern Art Work – Chuck Pharis
The
Case Against Philo Farnsworth and the Claim He Invented TV
- Scott Marshall
2:45 – 3:15 Auction
3:15 – 5:30
Presentations
1953
Philco Prototype 15 Inch Color Set - Chuck Azzalina
Brought To You in
Living Color – Peter Stonard
CBS
Field Sequential Color Lives Again
- Ed Reitan: CBS color history
- Darryl Hock: NTSC to CBS converter
- Steve McVoy: Gray Research 1951 color studio monitor
- John Folsom: CBS 1949 prototype color receiver
5:15 – 7:00
Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors
7:30 – 9:30
Dinner at Yard Club
Sunday,
April 13
9:00 – 10:00
Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors
10:00 – 11:00
Presentation:
Frozen Out in the
Forties and Fifties?
Distant TV Reception in the NTSC Era.
- John Pinkney
11:00 – 5:00
Demonstration of sets in the Museum’s collection
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