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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @02:27PM (3 children)
Lack of SD card is a bit of a deal breaker there, my nook simple touch is getting a bit long in the tooth and my eyesight is getting a wee bit worse, I'd like a larger new home for it's 32Gig SD card, a thought though, does this beastie support OTG storage?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday November 10 2018, @11:44AM (2 children)
I don't think so. It is designed to be a book. No more, no less. It does a superlative job of being something to read. But that's it. No extras, no bullshit. It's a book, you read it. If it does anything extra above that, it is because it didn't interfere with it being a book. A book that you read.
To be clear here, it is designed for bibliophiles. People who like to read books. It doesn't text, tweet, email or play videos. It is a book.
(Also, contrary to my post above, apparently you can install 3rd party KOReader and read in landscape format. but it is still a book*. That you read.)
*actually many, many, books. As I said, 400 books and it's 5% full.
If I sound like a bit of a fanboy here it is because I like to support companies that actually produce a good product. As far as e-books go I consider the Kobo Aura One expensive but still so good that it is excellent value. :)
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @07:07PM (1 child)
No worries, just that I lug around several thousand datasheets and reference books on my Nook Simple Touch as well as the couple of thousand works of fiction, they all currently fill a 32GB SD card, were transferred to it a couple of years ago, and as well as being my primary 'book', it has been my portable reference library ever since.
The Nook is starting to show it's age (being fair to it, it has travelled FSM knows how many thousands of miles, been stuffed in tool bags, rucksacks, camera bags, panniers etc. and it still manages to go over three weeks between charges) alas, so are my eyes (what I could read without issue on the Nook's screen a few years ago, now causes problems even with bifocals), which is why this beastie was of interest.
Had the Kobo supported USB OTG then it would have meant that I could work around the local storage capacity limitation by keeping my current Nook library on one of my USB sticks and transfer the required files to the beastie as and when I needed them without having to resort to lugging around a laptop as well.
Which is exactly what I'm looking for, as there appears to be mutterings about a 32GB model, I'll keep a listening watch.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday November 10 2018, @10:20PM
Actually, it does have wifi and pocket integration and overdrive, I just don't use them. You could maybe look into putting all your stuff on a pocket server somewhere.
If screen real estate is important, the new Kobo Forma looks good too. The landscape screen is only slightly bigger, 8.0" vs 7.8" but it gives you much more width.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.