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Nuvistor · 25th Jan 2020, 9:09 pm

The 1970’s were not a good time for quite a few UK manufacturing industries.

It has to be said that at that time small screen Japanese CTV’s were the norm, less stress on components etc and they had many years suppling their own and the USA with TV’s in which to gain experience. They were not cheap either, very often more expensive than the UK small screen sets.
Can’t remember the prices but I think the Pye CT200 was about £200, the CNP190/192 were quite a bit more.
When the larger sets were being made the reliability of their sets I saw did go down.

25th Jan 2020, 9:09 pm	#18
Nuvistor Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Wigan, Greater Manchester, UK. Posts: 9,433	Re: Hitachi CNP195. The 1970’s were not a good time for quite a few UK manufacturing industries. It has to be said that at that time small screen Japanese CTV’s were the norm, less stress on components etc and they had many years suppling their own and the USA with TV’s in which to gain experience. They were not cheap either, very often more expensive than the UK small screen sets. Can’t remember the prices but I think the Pye CT200 was about £200, the CNP190/192 were quite a bit more. When the larger sets were being made the reliability of their sets I saw did go down. __________________ Frank