Black and White.
Michael Buchanan reports on this tonight, and writes for the Blog:
"Forget your plasmas, interactivity, even your remote controls. Instead revel in the pleasure of watching television in black and white. Matthew Stevens is one of only 30,000 people in the UK who have a black and white tv licence.
He doesn't watch TV at this angle though he lives in a small flat which is one of the reasons he has this set, which he dug out of his mother's loft. (Doesn't Anne Robinson look even more scary in black and white?) He says the TV makes everything look more classy - even the rubbish. Clearly he's never watched I'm a Celebrity...
Even smaller than Matthew's screen is this one,
which belongs to Kirsten Hearn:
Its almost invisible in her London flat. And though she says it can be a total pain to have to tune it, Kirsten's perfectly happy with it as she's blind and merely listens to the TV. And being blind she pays only half the £47 licence fee."
(I appreciate this posting may look a little familiar...)
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'a little familiar'? Talk about understatement, Eddie. Is this what the Beeb calls recycling?
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We've worn out this subject on the other thread.
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Do you think a piece on Deja Vu would be a good idea?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2008/12/a_black_and_white_issue.shtml
The article on Deja View
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Do you think a piece on Deja Vu would be a good idea?
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Michael Buchanan reports on this tonight, and writes for the Blog:
"Forget your plasmas, interactivity, even your remote controls. Instead revel in the pleasure of watching television in black and white. Matthew Stevens is one of only 30,000 people in the UK who have a black and white tv licence.
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Re: 'Stand By For....(9). We did.
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I know, Eddie, how about an item on driving.
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Or what about parking tickets? We've not talked about those for - oooh - minutes at least!
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It would've been easier if he'd just transferred all the comments as well. Saved us a bit of time, after all we're all very busy people.....
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I've just plugged in an old 6" black and white walkman to a Freeview box and it gives a lovely picture.
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Ed - Matthew and Kirsten. Work at your local tax office by any chance?
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Quote
I appreciate this posting may look a little familiar
Unquote.
Not to me, Eddie. A goldfish could give me a good run for having a longer short term memory.
Not to me, Eddie. A gold...... lol
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I just plugged an old 1p postage stamp into a freeview box and got lovely color pictures.
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I have two of the 30,000 black and white TV licences! I rarely watch TV (I prefer listening to the radio whilst doing other things) and black and white is perfectly adequate for my needs.
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I was thinking of dumping my widescreen nicam fst, dust collector as not being worth £150 a year, but perhaps there's another way...
The sooner eddie funds his own post by having sponsorship tattooed across his cheeks the better.
I mean, would the sky really fall in if PM was introduced as "PM in association with Turkey Twizzlers brings you the McDonald's Headlines, read by ..."
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I've got a 5 inch black and white tele. Picked it up at a boot sale well prior to the great crunch. Best £2.50 I've spent for a decade. It's permanently tuned to R4. And I have to say, it's picture perfect.
intellectualartimus
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15. I think I should point something out to you. If you have a black TV and a white TV, you don't need two licences.
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Hi Eddie!
Happy New Year to you and all the team.
Re black-and-white tvs, we have one that used to be my Mum's, and she gave it to our daughter when she went to Uni in the late 80's. When it broke down she was told it couldn't be repaired. Not true--our local man fixed it, and it now lives in one of the bedrooms. Its only problem has been the aerial, but the time-honoured wire coathanger gives a better picture than the proper aerial.
It works a treat!
P.S. What happens when we all go digital? Will it still work with a coathanger?
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HI, Eddie:
And the Michael Buchanan report! Those are very small television sets....
--Televisions sets do not cost
that much--
~Dennis Junior~
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Recently ,one of our 2 downstairs Digital Freeview boxes died . In a noble spirit -I shuffled the good one into the Kitchen -diner ,where my wife spends so much time cooking , ironing ,etc.
This was not so bad for me -the front room has superb radio and Audio equipment but now only a little ,bottom of Argos' range TV,now without the extra freeview digital channels.
I do watch TV a bit still ,but now it is so much less stressful for me ,only clicking around 4 channels ,and occasionally finding nothing good -compared with my wife who bewails clicking around 'her' 18 or so TV channels -and finding nothing much good either !
Chris Dvil
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I have to say that Monty did us a good turn by peeing on the old Freeview box handset as it forced our hand - We now have Freeview Plus, and no longer have the frustration of wanting to watch two digital channels simultaneously.
Unlike Chris (above) we enjoy the extra choice, but I think that the endless choice provided by Sky, for example, would drive us bonkers.
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Chris 21, So, your wife spends her time in the kitchen cooking, ironing, etc, with freeview while you are stuck in the front room with loads of other equipment and a comfy chair. I'll bet you are drinking wine as well.
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Big Sis@22. That'll teach you to invite your cousin for Christmas and feed him copious quantities of Cberg.
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Terra@19
I don't see why not. I've worked with a couple of coathangers over the years and very nice people they've been too.
I'd certainly work with them again.
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Jester: You don't know how near the truth you are ;o)
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ExtraWiseOwl@15. This is bugging me. Why do you have two BW licences?
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Piper 25, Are coathangers like paperhangers?
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This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.
Thejestersang@27 ...
I suggested that it might be something to do with stereo - but the mods don't like that, for some reason.
(I have asked which rule I broke, but I have never had the courtesy of a reply.)
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I know, I know. AND Chris on the iPM page gets away with Mijwiz!
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The mods have not yet explained why my 29 was inappropriate (they never do). Nor have they explained why my 30 is still there, though it conveys the same sentiments. I do find it unsettling when people behave so erratically.
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