02-10-2016, 01:08 PM
I still have a vivid memory of the Earls Court Radio Show the year that these models - with their two spring steel strips twanged by buttons for tune and mute - were introduced.
Wherever you went there were people walking backwards off the stands with a remote in their hands to see how far away from the set they still worked! Why anybody should want to change channels from the end of the back garden, I do not know ...
It occurred to me afterwards that the logistics of planning the stand allocations for that show must have been very complicated.
With Thorn alone using around five trademarks, it would have not have looked good if someone walking back of the HMV stand, say, started changing channels on the set on the Ferguson stand and so on ...
The general hubbub of the show plus the use of four channels (two locally generated) tended to disguise and smother the clunking of the motor driven tuner but they must have quickly become a source of irritation in a quiet living room - particularly when they insisted on going the long way round from 1 to 9 (or whatever).
Wherever you went there were people walking backwards off the stands with a remote in their hands to see how far away from the set they still worked! Why anybody should want to change channels from the end of the back garden, I do not know ...
It occurred to me afterwards that the logistics of planning the stand allocations for that show must have been very complicated.
With Thorn alone using around five trademarks, it would have not have looked good if someone walking back of the HMV stand, say, started changing channels on the set on the Ferguson stand and so on ...
The general hubbub of the show plus the use of four channels (two locally generated) tended to disguise and smother the clunking of the motor driven tuner but they must have quickly become a source of irritation in a quiet living room - particularly when they insisted on going the long way round from 1 to 9 (or whatever).
