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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: 2) by mcgrew on Friday November 09 2018, @05:55PM (1 child)
For $15K you can have better than 20/20 vision ($7500 per eye). The CrystaLens cures nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts. Ask your eye doctor about them. I have one implanted in my left eye. I was very nearsighted since I was a kid, 20/200 without glasses, now that eye is 20/16. Sixty six years old and I don't even need reading glasses! I plan on having the other eye done soon.
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Sadly, I'll have to pay the full $7500 because I'm on Medicare now, and vision isn't covered.
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(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday November 09 2018, @10:37PM
Interesting, but I am not there yet.
With effort, I used to be able to focus closer than 2 inches in front of my eyes and read the microprint on AU currency, getting older that has moved out to about 10 inches.
With no strain I can currently focus from about 20 inches to infinity, it is just a little bit further than is comfortable reading for long periods with the font size in most books. I end up bringing the book in closer then having to exert effort to focus, or having to read under very bright lights which also bug me.
Regarding the insurance I am in AU and our system is a little bit different. Couldn't find the current cost of the lens, (in 2004 it was $920) but the procedure itself seems to be covered under our medicare system. :)
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