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posted by martyb on Thursday November 08 2018, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
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: 2) by deimtee on Friday November 09 2018, @07:09AM

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday November 09 2018, @07:09AM (#759755) Journal

    The Forma came out after I bought the Aura. Have not really checked it out, as I am not upgrading at the moment.
    The ideal device you describe does sound awesome, but I actually like the single purposedness of the Kobo. I wanted something to read books on, and that was all. I have a 17" asus laptop for big stuff, and a homebuilt desktop for really big stuff.

    Have you looked at the screen that was on the original OLPC? Black/white reflective + colour emissive, both running at once. Quite innovative for its time, you'd think 10 years later they should have improved it.

    In a way, I can see it being like the appeal of Apple stuff. The Kobo just works. Hopefully they'll release a software update with landscape mode, it would make PDFs and comics better, if still not great.

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