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on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.
BBC:
More than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after colour broadcasts began.
London has the most TV licences for black and white sets at 1,768, followed by 431 in the West Midlands and 390 in Greater Manchester.
A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.
BBC2 was the first channel to regularly broadcast in colour from July that year with the Wimbledon tennis tournament.
The number of black and white licences has almost halved in the past five years and is down from 212,000 in 2000.
Aha! Those must be the last Manichaeans.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:56PM (4 children)
We all got digital to analog converters when digital was first mandated around here.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:02PM
The '60s came out with something for black-and-white to color conversion around here too, but subsequently declared it illegal. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide [wikipedia.org] )
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday November 08 2018, @10:12PM (1 child)
There were free deals for digital to analog converters in the US, but I was extremely glad to ditch my old CRT TV and my LCD TV already had Digital in addition to the Analog.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday November 09 2018, @05:46PM
I had a converter box for my old TV and wish I hadn't waited for the TV to die to replace it. It pulled 240 watts, the new, much bigger TV only pulls fifteen. CRTs are expensive to watch!
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(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Thursday November 08 2018, @11:42PM
Exactly, I've got a digital converter box connected to a small CRT TV. It is color, but the other day I had it connected to a nice green-screen Apple IIc monochrome monitor. It works.