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Articles about 625-lines
240, 405, 625, 1080… GO!
Published 31 December 2022
Geoff Nash tries to explain 2023’s TV technology to a 1936 viewer
Broadcasting in Britain: New Dimensions in Broadcasting – Colour and Stereophony
Published 30 December 2022
Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Eurovision
Published 14 May 2022
Television prepares for its greatest triumph, to reach out beyond the frontiers of Europe and bring you instantaneous sights and sounds from six different countries
The future of television: The answer
Published 28 December 2021
Part Eleven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
New television standards: effect on British television
Published 19 February 2021
An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959
Mendip mast opening – full colour plan
Published 3 February 2021
Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people
Continental television stations
Published 23 December 2020
A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
ITA Colour is coming!
Published 20 May 2019
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
Wired-up for service
Published 17 July 2018
Electrical maintenance: the beating heart of Television House and Wembley