The British Rediffusion Radio Programme and later TV cable distribution system I knew about, but I did not know that such systems are older than radio itself. Many towns used telephone systems to route music, entertainment and news into homes from the 1880s!
This Radio 3 broadcast tells the tale http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sbc1r/Sunday_Feature_The_Pleasure_Telephone/ My grandmother had one of these [image: http://www.rediffusion.info/BroadcastRelayService/speaker.jpg] http://www.rediffusion.info/BroadcastRelayService/ but in a beautiful brown Bakelite. Notice the channel selector and volume control on the wall. They offered an attractive subscription alternative to an expensive "Wireless Set". As a teenager I liberated the speaker and used it for a few years. The earlier London Telephone based system is described here http://www.britishtelephones.com/electrophone.htm [image: http://www.britishtelephones.com/electrophone/electrophone%20receivers%20with%20stand.jpg] but the programme makes clear that the Budapest network was the best, offering a broad range of "Radio" programme output by wire. The Radio 3 Programme is worth a listen. -- Labarum Brian In Southampton: Quad 77 Integrated Amp - AVI Neutron 4 In Nicosia: Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man - Quart 980s German Tower Loudspeakers. Boom in conservatory. http://www.hifi-wiki.de/index.php/MB_Quart_980_S In both: Squeezebox Classic, Beresford Caiman DAC, Sony MDR-F1 Headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Labarum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=86831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
