I received a box of interesting (to me) goodies from our all round good egg, @cathovisor
This is the first that boggled my mind, perhaps @jayceebee or @jcdaze our ex Thorn engineers, can shed some light on this. In the box were a number of very useful to me period (80s) remote controls, one of them being a JVC remote. One look at it and I thought, "hello, I recognise you as a T736". Can you guys explain this?
@cathovisor has his theory, I'd be interested, as I'm sure Mike would, to see what you guys have to add. I'm aware almost all Ferguson VCRs were rebadged JVC, I had no idea this appears to have been the other way with TVs.
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JVC did release some sets which were obvious rebranded TX10 Supersound sets, no effort was made with the cosmetics other than a little bit of silver paint. Other than this they were almost identical to the 22” 6083 model you have. I’m not sure if the was a 22” model alongside the 26” The interesting thing is unlike the Thorn’s rental range which had the 26” 6103 Supersound TX10 I believe there was no 26” model in the Ferguson range, only 20 & 22”.
I understand the reason for these sets may have been due to the delay in the JVC BX chassis. I believe Thorn had some input in the design and some Ferguson models were released but I’ve not seen one. I read somewhere that the BX chassis had problems due to the use of lots of surface mount aluminium capacitor, the type which caused so many problems due to leakage in video recorders and camcorders.
John.
I have a service manual for JVC (TX100 chassis)
@malcscott I’ve never seen a JVC with a TX100 chassis. Did they use 30AX or 45AX CRT’s do you know?
John.
I think these were the only 4 JVC televisions which used the TX100 chassis and were actually made by Thorn. I think I uploaded a JVC brochure to the site a couple of years ago that has contains better pictures of them. I only ever saw them when they were new.
@jcdaze I’ve never seen those sets or even knew they existed. As the remote shown doesn’t have audio functionality it obviously came from one of those. I’m quite surprised that JVC put their name on them as the styling was looking quite dated by then.
John.
True, though the TX probably would have benefitted from replacing the wood grain with matt grey or black plastic.
I've just looked at the JVC brochure and there is actually another Thorn television badged as a JVC.
My theory from an admittedly hazy memory is that there were definite attempts to avoid the European market getting flooded with Japanese Teletext sets at one time, so Japanese manufacturers would tie in with European ones: for example, my parents' Salora 'K' chassis set with teletext was also sold with a Hitachi badge on it. I wonder - given Thorn's ties with JVC - if this is what happened here too.
Those of us with a history in broadcasting may remember similar shenanigans with Japanese TV cameras having four tubes...
