Oldest TV is Freeview Compatible

Despite its age, it can show modern TV channels

A million miles away from todays LCD, mulitmedia HDT’s, the country’s oldest working television has been discovered in a house in North London.

The Marconiphone, thought to have been made in the months that Britain’s first television service began, was found after a competition.

It is dated at November 1936 when the first TV broadcast was made; when broadcasts went on for just two hours a day on one channel.

Digital UK, the organisation overseeing the digital switchover found the set as part of their campaign to publicise the message that just about any television, however old, can be converted to show digital channels.

The set belongs to Jeffrey Borinsky, an electrical engineer and collector of antique television and radio sets. Despite its age, it can show modern TV channels and is even freeview compatible.

The switch to digital television will be completed in Britain in 2013, some years after most European nations.