The MTV1B sold reasonably well but it only lasted for a couple of years. Eventually the design was sold to Binatone in 1979 when Government funding for the project was withdrawn. Production didn’t stop immediately and a few Binatone badged models were made but I haven’t seen one for ages. There are still plenty of Sinclair MTV1s on ebay and you can occasionally find a bargain though in the main clean working examples sell for between Ј50 and Ј80, a small enough price to pay for a real piece of TV history. If you are thinking of buying one watch out for signs of case melt above the picture tube and scratch marks around the case shut-line and damaged or missing labels on the underside, which may indicate that someone -- possibly unskilled in the ways of these devices -- has tried to take it apart.
Sinclair’s final foray into the pocket TV market was the FTV1, a flat-screen TV launched in 1984. Unlike today’s flat-screen TVs, which use LCD screens, this one employed a bizarre ‘flat’ cathode ray tube. In a conventional CRT the electron gun is mounted behind a phosphor-coated screen; the tube used in the FTV1 has the electron gun at 90 degrees to the screen and the bean is ‘bent’ at right angles by electrostatic deflection plates. The CRT requires a very high voltage (around 500 volts) to drive it, and a good proportion of the circuitry is devoted to generating this voltage. To help keep the size and weight down the FTV1 uses a specially designed flat-pack battery, made by Polaroid. Unfortunately they were expensive, ran out quickly and sadly are no longer available, though batteries from Polaroid Vision/Joycam film cartridges will work in the FTV1
It’s an ingenious concept but coming as it did just a couple of years before cheap LCDs it was doomed to a short shelf life. FTV1s make frequent appearances on ebay and sell for as little as a fiver. The fact that the special batteries are no longer made limits their appeal to serious collectors but I suspect they could become sought after in a few years time.
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