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Thousands in UK Still Watch TV in Black and White

posted by martyb on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-don't-see-what-you-did-there dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by martyb on Friday November 09 2018, @02:23AM (3 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 09 2018, @02:23AM (#759664) Journal

    Thanks for the reminder... I'm now writing a follow up story to my request for info on buying a 43-inch UHD HDR TV [soylentnews.org] to use as a computer monitor. If all goes well, it should be out with a day.

    Just a heads up that some retailers are offering Black Friday specials well before Thanksgiving; some are already available!

    Here's one resource I found: https://bestblackfriday.com/ [bestblackfriday.com]; be sure to scroll down and look at the different categories by stores, products, etc.

    Here's another: https://www.cnet.com/news/black-friday-2018-deals-laptops-pcs-chromebooks-tablets-monitors-and-more/ [cnet.com].

    Good luck!

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @02:29AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday November 09 2018, @02:29AM (#759670) Journal

    https://slickdeals.net/ [slickdeals.net]
    https://slickdeals.net/blackfriday/ [slickdeals.net]

    These are the money-grubbing people I pay attention to.

    I may do a journal for Black Friday. Not sure if I care this year.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday November 09 2018, @06:01PM (1 child)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday November 09 2018, @06:01PM (#759969) Homepage Journal

    4K is overkill on a screen that small. On my 55' there is only a tiny difference between 1080 and 4K.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:54PM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:54PM (#761971) Journal

      4K is overkill on a screen that small. On my 55' there is only a tiny difference between 1080 and 4K.

      Disagree. I use the TV as a computer monitor and it is currently at arm's length from me. My previous monitor, at the same distance, had a resolution of 1920x1200 with a 24-inch diagonal. The new screen greatly increases the amount of information I'll be able to look at at the same time. In layman's terms, I got a bigger desk.

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