Philips TD1410U (star box)

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"Star box" with the RMA test image from the 1950 / 60s (RMA: Radio Manufacturers Association , community of American radio manufacturers)

The black and white television TD1410U from Philips , which was nicknamed Starenkasten because of its housing shape , was one of the first post-war televisions in the Federal Republic of Germany and certainly the most popular of them. The first models produced at Philips 'main plant in Eindhoven in the Netherlands appeared in 1951, had wooden struts in front of the loudspeaker and were equipped with a MW36-22 rectangular picture tube supplied by Philips' British subsidiary Mullard . Just in time for regular broadcasting operations in the Federal Republic of Germany on December 26, 1952, a visually revised model with fabric covering in front of the loudspeaker and the new MW36-24 picture tube came onto the market from the new Philips Apparatefabrik Krefeld in 1952. Design and technology are based on the TX400U and TX500 from Philips from 1949, which was also known in the Netherlands under the nickname "little Hondenhok" (= small dog house).

Philips TD1410U from the side - the shape of the housing gave the device its nickname "Starenkasten".

The device is equipped with 24 tubes and consumes approx. 130 watts for television reception. The TD1410U is intended for 6 TV channels in VHF band III and for FM radio reception. The tuner is not a drum channel selector (although you can read it every now and then), but works with variable capacitor tuning. For VHF radio reception, the television deflector can be switched off to save power and the screen remains dark. Place in the later conventional intercarrier method of Philips TD1410U worked in Paralleltonverfahren : After the first intermediate frequency stage, the sound IF (18 MHz) is coupled out and IF amplifier clay amplified in a separate. The picture IF is 23.5 MHz.

The price of 1500 DM at the time, adjusted for purchasing power, corresponds to 3,920 euros in today's currency. Only around five years after the currency reform in 1948 , only a few people could afford a television, and so the TD1410U was often used in restaurants to enable joint television. 20 to 30 people looking at the small, not 30 cm wide screen at the same time were not uncommon back then. Major media events on the "star box" were the coronation of Elisabeth II at the beginning of June 1953 and the 1954 World Cup in Bern.

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  1. The figure was based on the template: Inflation determined, rounded to 10 EUR and applies to the previous January.