UK still has 13,000 B & W televisions

[Brian Drysdale]

Of course, there could be more B & W sets in those homes with colour.

BBC News - UK still has 13,000 black-and-white TVs

Just shows not everyone is out buying the latest tech.

[Dom Stevenson]

I was watching The Wizard of Oz at my mate's house at Christmas. I couldn't believe it when Dorothy left Kansas and went all technicolor. Toto will never be the same again. Happy New Year.

[Trevor Dennis]

Nothing to do with a B&W license costing one third of the price of a colour license?

[Gary Nattrass]

I would think that there are a lot of pensioners that are happy with B&W TV and others who find the contrast ratio better for poor sighted people.

As for trying to get away with a cheaper option it is now legal requirement for retailers to check that people have a valid colour TV licence here in the UK before they can buy a TV, it happened to me in a store today and the purchaser was asked for their postcode so that if they didnt have a licence then a demand would be issued after the sale!

[Chris Hurd]

Makes for fine viewing of "The Third Man," quite possibly my all-time favorite UK production in black & white.

[Gabor Heeres]

This doesn't include the number of B&W TV's that are used for monitoring or replaying CCTV footage?

[Simon Wood]

No. Those do not require a license; the 13,000 figure has come from the licensing authority for households with B&W tv licenses.

[Adrian Frearson]

I bet 12,000 of them are in East Anglia :-)

[Steve Game]

That's a bit ageist isn't it?
What about Eastbourne? ;¬)

[Andy Wilkinson]

Originally Posted by Adrian Frearson

I bet 12,000 of them are in East Anglia :-)

Steady...!!!! Actually I saw a graphic yesterday (Telegraph website I think) that showed most of them were in Northern Island! ;-)

One other thing (and it's been a while since I bought a TV), how many of them are people claiming not to have a Colour TV when they move to a new address so that they can get the license 2/3 cheaper?

[That way, because your address is in the Orwellian system as having a license you won't be hassled. They no doubt assume that every address has a TV - and so must need a license, to spell it out].

[Brian Drysdale]

Not sure about the most B & W licences in raw number terms, but some poorer rural towns in Northern Ireland do have the highest number per thousand.

[Paul R Johnson]

Retailers have been responsible for completing a form for every tv sold certainly since 1976, even Tesco have to get people to fill in a form. Since the vans with rotating roof racks vanished, this has been the only way they can issue fines to households with no license. Of course, most people just gave details of somebody with one.

[Colin McDonald]

I still do my audio in black and white.

Nurse - can I have a cup of tea?

[Ronald Jackson]

Recently watched the film "Paths Of Glory", directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1957, starring Kirk Douglas in a very good cast.

Black and white, but transmitted in HD and viewed on my HD plasma. Marvellous, maybe partly because one expects anything about the First World War to be B&W.

A long overdue credit to the technicians who constructed the film, which was perfectly lit and shot. Bit like, this afternoon for example, my listening to 1957 recordings by Eric Dolphy, re-mastered onto a CD, and played back on my half decent modern Linn CD player. Entry into another world.


Ron

[Gary Nattrass]

Originally Posted by Colin McDonald

I still do my audio in black and white.

Nurse - can I have a cup of tea?

But what do you do if it goes into the RED ?

actually if any audio goes into a RED camera it tends to be distorted ! ;0)