By Unfocussed Mike, 1665863672
Store this up for when you next feel the need for your heart to burst from sheer affection.
Or watch it now, of course.
Edited by Unfocussed Mike
Björk does a teardown of a Sony Trinitron TV (1988)
waist.it said, 1665881353
Interesting find Mike. One of my first full time jobs was fixing those things, along with various radios and hi-fis above a shitty little shop opposite the chip shop on Shirley High Street, in my then home town of Southampton. They sent me on loads of courses too - including Sony's first commercially available CD Players - CDP-101. Did the Philips CD100 too in the old PYE research facility just outside Cambridge. Granted, not exactly a high-spot of my career, but quite good fun at the time - and the chippy opposite the shop did a fab and very generous "large haddock and chips" too.
I still have a Dexion box full of the spare ribbon cables for the Triniton KV series. They came with teletext upgrades and certain other spare boards. Most of my fellow engineers just threw them away. But I grabbed every one that I could because they came-in very handy for various electronic projects of my own. For example, this little refurb job from a few years back, where I used some to re-connect the on/off/RF gain control, VHF switch and the headphone socket in a 1970's multiband radio kit. Makes the wiring so much tidier and easier to follow...
Trinitrons or 'Trinnies' were great. Better picture quality and generally more reliable than rival products. Biggest problem with the 1980s Trinnies was the two very fine vertical wires that held the shadow mask in place. These cast a very fine, almost undetectable shadow on the phosphor screen. Most people never noticed them. But once you saw them you could never "un-see" them. And quite a few customers complained. In fact it was a 'design feature' of every Sony Trinitron CRT of the era, even those deployed by other manufacturers.
Absolutely nothing we could do about the issue, other than offering a swap for a Philips telly instead. Very few took up the offer because the Trinitron screen was in all other respects superior to almost all its rivals, including Philips.
As an aside Sony made some rather good shortwave radios at the time - and of course we got a staff discount, along with free service manuals and access to spares at cost. This is the ICF 2001 I originally gave my late father, back in 1984 - one of the world's first commercially-available phase-lock-loop (PPL) frequency synthesised multiband receivers...
Happy days! :-)
Unfocussed Mike said, 1665881933
Yes but did they have little cities and elevators in them? :-) Oh how I adore Björk.
waist.it said, 1665883204
Unfocussed Mike said
Yes but did they have little cities and elevators in them? :-) Oh how I adore Björk.
No cities. But they had final anodes half way along the tube, that could give you one hell of a belt. Typically around 10kV. Seldom fatal because it was RF - straight of the LOPT (line output transformer) - which also could give you hell of a wallop too.
But RF tends to travel along the outside of things and could give very nasty deep-skin burns. Fortunately it was also relatively low current, that only maintained a high voltage because it was across a relatively high impedance. However once connected to the human body, impedance would drop accordingly, causing the voltage to drop significantly too as the current went to ground along the outside of one's body. V=IR, Ohm's Law and all that... :-)
And yes, she was rather cute. However, I'm not sure I'd really want to be working in the same workshop. lol :-)
Gothic Image said, 1665886119
Unfortunately I can't watch for more than 30 seconds before wanting to brain the twat with the microphone!
FarmerSteve said, 1665904339
Gothic Image I can't watch for more than 30 seconds before wanting to brain the twat on screen with her inane drivel and annoying voice.
Gothic Image said, 1665904418
FarmerSteve said
Gothic Image I can't watch for more than 30 seconds before wanting to brain the twat on screen with her inane drivel and annoying voice.
I don't mind her speaking voice, but just don't let her sing!
FarmerSteve said, 1665904579
waist.it many happy memories of fixing TVs & VCRs. Being self taught in the early days adjustments to the scanning yoke and various trimmers was done the hard way until I twigged the trick of using a mirror so I could see the screen without flitting back and forth risking (and incurring) various forms of shock...
FarmerSteve said, 1665904731
Gothic Image don't think that I have ever heard her "sing" as such... lots of screeching and yelling on the other hand. I guess it must float some people's boat though as she made some money at the job!
Unfocussed Mike said, 1665920921
indemnity said
Her knowledge of TV's exceeds her musical skills.
Ehh? She is one of the most comprehensively talented musicians in contemporary music history.
FarmerSteve said
Gothic Image don't think that I have ever heard her "sing" as such... lots of screeching and yelling on the other hand.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. But then neither do you :-)
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The Ghost said, 1665928668
Tell me you can only think of one Bjork song without telling me the only one you can think of is a cover of someone else's song:
FarmerSteve said
Gothic Image don't think that I have ever heard her "sing" as such... lots of screeching and yelling on the other hand. I guess it must float some people's boat though as she made some money at the job!
Gothic Image said, 1665930585
The thing about Bjork is that she's either unbearably cute or just unbearable, depending on your point of view.
Unfocussed Mike said, 1665931885
Prancy McPrettykins said
Tell me you can only think of one Bjork song without telling me the only one you can think of is a cover of someone else's song:
FarmerSteve said
Gothic Image don't think that I have ever heard her "sing" as such... lots of screeching and yelling on the other hand. I guess it must float some people's boat though as she made some money at the job!
And she sings in a very conventional way on that track, too. Very much in keeping with dynamic Broadway singers of the fifties.
There's loads of conventional singing on Debut and Post.
I think she's really a candidate for the definitive "universal" singer; she has remarkable control over the totality of her voice, not just western tonality.
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waist.it said, 1665932105
Prancy McPrettykins said
Tell me you can only think of one Bjork song without telling me the only one you can think of is a cover of someone else's song:
FarmerSteve said
Gothic Image don't think that I have ever heard her "sing" as such... lots of screeching and yelling on the other hand. I guess it must float some people's boat though as she made some money at the job!
I would never claim to be Björk aficionado. However, I think my favourite Björk song, and indeed the one that always leaps to my mind when her name crops-up, is "Play Dead" - which was her own creation, albeit with help from Jah Wobble and David Arnold.