With digital TV now, you will need to convert the signal first to analogue, then the frequency from UHF to VHF and number of lines from 625 (or 576 line digital) to 405 lines.

In the video below, [Dunham] has gotten his hands on a rarity: an unboxed 1958 Philco Predicta TV. The original tape was still on the box.

There’s nothing quite as retro-futuristic as the Philco Predicta television from the late 1950s. That bubbly, detached picture tube. The metal frame. It’s gorgeous. Unfortunately, the iconic ...

The original Philco Predicta was an iconic futurist design—an early, ambitious attempt at a flat-screen TV that looked nothing like the big cabinet sets of its day. It was produced from 1958 to ...

It was 50 years ago today that Telstar, which had been lofted into low-Earth orbit two days earlier, relayed the first-ever transatlantic television signal, flung skyward and eastward from the ...

The "Telstar 50th Anniversary" symposium will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), with a satellite television connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in France.

WATCH HISTORIC VIDEOS. This month it was 50 years ago that NASA launched AT&T’s Telstar, the world’s first active communications satellite. Launched on July 10, 1962, this was a very successful… ...

Image of the Telstar 1 satellite. Telstar was launched by NASA on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. Two days later, it relayed ...

The "Telstar 50th Anniversary" symposium will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), with a satellite television connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in France.