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Sinclair Showed Pocket TV in 1966 - briefly|
| (hx) 11:12 PM CEST - Sep,08 2026 | 
Clive Sinclair put a two-inch pocket television on a stand at London’s Television and Radio Show on 22 August 1966.
Press photos from Earl’s Court that day call the Sinclair Microvision the world’s first complete pocket set: a tiny CRT, six penlight cells, thirteen UK channels.
That 1966 box never went into mass production.
A later Microvision reached shops about a decade after.
The ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum then put cheap computers into British homes.
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last 10 comments: | Sabot | (11:43 PM CEST - Sep,08 2026 ) | I still have a pocket colour TV, which ran on 4 AA batteries. It has a telescopic arial. Very advanced for its time.
I also have a small 6” portable B&W set, which you could run on batteries or plug into an adapter. Basically a shrunken CRT. They still work but because of digital switching, they don’t pickup an analogue signal.
I remember one time at the top of a high hill in Scotland, I brought the colour one out to get the football results. Like, so far advanced.
I don’t know where they get the 13 channels, as we only had BBC1,2 and ITV.
3 channels all in glorious B&W |
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