Rembrandt (TV)
The FE 852 Rembrandt television set was the first television set in the GDR , originally developed for sale in the Soviet Union , and was put on sale in the GDR from 1953 because the Soviet Union refused to accept it for unknown reasons. It had a screen size of 24 by 18 centimeters and was manufactured in the VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg (later Rafena ). The broadcast schedule of the German Television in the experimental phase was December 21, 1952. As early as 1947 were in the Soviet zone of occupation built a test basis television. In the GDR, the first television radio receivers of the Leningrad type were sold from November 16, 1952. The Leningrad device manufactured in the VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg initially cost 3500 DM , with an average monthly income of around 300 Marks at the time. Up to the end of production in 1954, however, only around 3000 Leningrad devices had been sold in the GDR, the main production of around 130,600 devices had to be delivered to the Soviet Union as reparations .
The FE 852 Rembrandt had a round-bottom picture tube (in contrast to the more complex rectangular picture tube ), and was originally built for the Eastern Bloc television standard OIRT with a sound-picture interval of 6.5 MHz instead of the 5.5 MHz common in the West. In 1954 the leadership of the GDR decided to introduce a uniform television standard for Germany, all models built later received according to the CCIR standard. However, upgrading older televisions was easy to do. In addition to the ten VHF television channels, this device was also able to receive two VHF radio channels. Only two modules for 2 programs were preassembled, for other transmitters you had to buy corresponding assemblies. Since there was only one program each in East and West at that time, this was not a problem in practice at the time.
From the Rembrandt device type there were a total of 42206 units until production was discontinued in 1956. produced and sold exclusively in the GDR. The television cost around 1400 DM at the time.
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- ↑ a b Operating history of ROBOTRON Radeberg - television sets. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .