Trevor Wilson wrote:

"Sylvia Else" wrote in message
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Whatever happened to circuits that just contained a couple of valves?


**There never were any "circuits that just contained a couple of valves".
When they first arrived, TV sets were mindbogglingly complex devices
compared to anything that preceded them (in domestic appliance-speak). They
were also fabulously unreliable. You could figure that the average TV set
would require several repair jobs every year. Your incredibly complex, LSI
controlled, TV set is likely to be vastly more reliable. You've probably
found the first fault it has ever had.


It sounds like they only sold crap in Australia, and that you've
never seen the very low parts count in a Muntz TV.

My parents had three service calls in 15 years. Two of those were
due to lightning taking out the front end in the VHF tuner. The third
was a bad electrolytic in a voltage doubler that took out a fusible
resistor. That isn't a couple times a year.


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