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Old 17th Dec 2019, 10:06 am   #75
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Default Re: Television set?

In Britain, the two sides of the 'format war' were the Phonograph (cylinder records) and the Gramophone (disc records).
Both were trademarks belonging to the major competitors, and both eventually became generic.
The Graphophone (Capital G) lost out because it was a gramophone (small g).
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