~1958 Kuba Komet Television

[Homer J Simpson]

If you are interested in vintage / retro televisions you might like this one.

A TV I did not know existed. pretty cool design for around 1958.

[ebastler]

I guess these came complete with bragging rights even back in the day. 

The manufacturer, "Kuba" is not named after the country by the way, but after its founder Gerhard Kubetschek. They started out making furniture with integrated 3rd party audio and TV chassis, but by the time the "Komet" was launched they also had developed their own electronics chassis.

Kuba changed hands a couple of times in later years, first to General Electric, then AEG-Telefunken, and was eventually shut down in 1972.

[lokin4areason]

thats an amazing center piece to any living room

love seeing all the detail work on it

you wont see that any time soon again in person , imo

[Kleinstein]

For the B&W standard there is not that much difference in the TV signals in Europe and the US. The main difference is the 50/60 Hz vertical frequency. In the old days they did not really cared about the number of lines with a counter.
The TV part could still be replaced as a complete set with picture tube and chassis just because it was broken and spare parts from Europe could be hard to get.

[rf-messkopf]

The Kuba factory was in Wolfenbüttel, just a few km from here. There was a small museum in the former factory building which had one of these on display, but the museum is currently closed, as far as I know.

Another one of these is in the Museum für Kommunikation in Frankfurt: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuba-Imperial#/media/Datei:Kombinationstruhe_Kuba_%E2%80%9EKomet%E2%80%9C.jpg.

[coppercone2]

early goauld technology

[Alex Eisenhut]

Is that Gumby's TV?