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Old 21st Jul 2021, 3:34 pm   #7
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Default Re: (The trade)Golden years.?

I started in the trade in 1973 but I think the really good days were before that. Early 60's you had the boom in transistor radio's, mid 60's you had the change to 625 lines and UHF meaning lots of dual-standard sets not just for repairs but for sales as well. Then a couple of years later, the move to colour TV...more training and more repairs which probably carried on through the early 70's. Mid 70's saw the start of Teletext and slightly later, the first domestic VCR's from Philips. There was an awful lot going on throughout those ten years. During the early 80's there was the VCR boom.....everybody wanted one although they were quite expensive but it meant more training and more repairs. I think the decline started in the 90's when most of the current technology had 'matured' and manufacturers were finding cheaper was of doing things.
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