Anyone still watch TV on an old Black & White television set??

LordSutch

Can't be any owners/viewers left, can there? I remember well when we got our 1st Colour TV in the mid 70s'. It was totally amazeballs after watching our old B&W Sobell Electra for so long

A Black & White Tele >>> https://wterryaustin.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/tv1.jpg
A colour Tele >>> https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/37/c4/83/37c4832d82bf8df83bbcc51148ccc163.jpg

Collie D

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

SCOOP 64

How old would that girl be on that test card now and wonder what she looks like, remember that when i was a kid.

hinault

Colour TV was the catalyst for the explosion of popularity in Snooker.

I well remember seeing Star Trek in colour for the first time.

DavyD_83

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

A bit like advertising HD, it 3D on standard TV, still always seems a bit ridiculous to me.

Will always have fond memories of watching snooker in B&W with grandparents and trying to remember which balls were which, you could kinda tell them apart, but not that reliably. Commentators were aware of our types then though, so they'd make a point of identifying what colours they were aiming at etc pretty regularly

Collie D

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

How old would that girl be on that test card now and wonder what she looks like, remember that when i was a kid.

She turned 58 last week and still has Bubbles the doll which is kind of sweet. No photo unfortunately.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hersee

Agent Coulson

LordSutch wrote: »

A colour Tele >>> https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/37/c4/83/37c4832d82bf8df83bbcc51148ccc163.jpg

That was the first tv in my house growing up I remember

I remember getting blown away when some hooked an Atari to it and we we able to play pong.


I look at my 49" 4k tv now with all the bells and whistles PS4's Android boxes Sky boxes etc and I'll never get the same feeling as I did watching 2 channels and playing pong.

darkpagandeath

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

Did the TV rental man not bring them around to show when he was emptying the coin meter on the back of the one you had ?

brevity

Did anyone else immediately think of The Backwards Man?

osarusan

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

How old would that girl be on that test card now and wonder what she looks like, remember that when i was a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Card_F

Collie D

Apparently there were almost 10k b/w licences issued in the UK last year which was half the number from a decade before.

We either abolished or merged (more likely) the b/w licence here in 2003 so can't find any figures but using that ratio there are still about a thousand out there. I can imagine an old farming type still using one...or as per hilarious post above, The Backwards Man. No offence if you're reading. ;-)

http://m.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/thousands-still-watching-tv-in-black-and-white-34317817.html

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The football commentator who said " For those of you watching in black and white, Arsenal are the team in red" .

Laois_Man

I remember our first colour TV and watching The Incredible Hulk in colour for the very first time. I'd swear I never knew he was green and I remember saying out loud, he's 4uckin green - that's 4uckin stupid!

Grayson

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

Tell them to look away from the telly?

Grayson

Collie D wrote: »

She turned 58 last week and still has Bubbles the doll which is kind of sweet. No photo unfortunately.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Hersee

Google image search for her name shows this.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nintchdbpict000140242022-e1472042978450.jpg?w=960&strip=all

Collie D

Grayson wrote: »

Google image search for her name shows this.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/nintchdbpict000140242022-e1472042978450.jpg?w=960&strip=all

Cool, thanks. I had an idea somebody somewhere would have asked her to do something like that.

darkpagandeath

Jesus that clown :P

feargale

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

I don't know, but the first time I saw Woody Allen was in the mid 60s being intervewed by Eamonn Andrews on black and white tv, who asked him to describe himself. After a heap of b***s***
WA: "Is this colour television?"
EA: "No."
WA: " I have flaming red hair."
followed by another heap of b***s***.

I believed him.

elperello

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

They put them in the window of TV shops and watched the crowd grow.

Old Bill

You get a much better picture on an old CRT TV compared with the modern flat sceen TVs.

buried

Whatever about black and white television sets. Some of the greatest films ever made are the Black and White ones. You'll get more entertainment watching those films than the super coloured superhero infested frat rom-com rehash muck movies made today. Had the two nephews over for Halloween, made them watch the original 'Nosferatu' from 1922. It frightened the p!ss out of them and they wanted to know could they watch the "sequels" after it.

Annasopra

Collie D wrote: »

Random musing of the day: How did they advertise the brilliance of colour TVs when everyone was watching in black and white?

In magazines and newspapers

Killergreene

My dad still uses one. Watches match of the day in front of the fire religiously every Saturday night on it with a few glasses of whiskey, and is up at 6am the next morning to walk the dog and get mass in before having a fry.

Pure old school fella, I've offered to buy him a proper telly but it originally belonged to his parents so has some sentimental value.

boobar

my black and white set does me fine.

I only watch snooker anyway.

Badly Drunk Boy

I think I still have a 14" portable in a spare room. (It was our lavish extra telly that we used to rent it in the 80s.)

Laois_Man wrote: »

I remember our first colour TV and watching The Incredible Hulk in colour for the very first time. I'd swear I never knew he was green and I remember saying out loud, he's 4uckin green - that's 4uckin stupid!

The original Frankenstein's monster was grey, rather than green. Hollywood coloured him.

Badly Drunk Boy

Oh, I meant to say...my grandmother's next-door neighbour didn't bother getting a colour television in the late 80s/early 90s because she only watched one thing on the telly: snooker.

Avatar MIA

Funnily enough, that's how I used to watch MOTD back in the 80s, a 12" B&W "portable" in my brother's bedroom. Probably enjoyed watching MOTD more then.








Although, being a Liverpool fan might be colouring* my love of the 80s:o







* I'll get my Parkas

Collie D

Collie D wrote: »

Apparently there were almost 10k b/w licences issued in the UK last year which was half the number from a decade before.

We either abolished or merged (more likely) the b/w licence here in 2003 so can't find any figures but using that ratio there are still about a thousand out there. I can imagine an old farming type still using one...or as per hilarious post above, The Backwards Man. No offence if you're reading. ;-)

http://m.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/thousands-still-watching-tv-in-black-and-white-34317817.html

Hard to believe that they are still available (I just checked, and they are), any B&W sets now must be over 25 years old by now and incapable of receiving a signal without an external digital receiver.

One for the eccentrics, or TV museums.

BunkMoreland

Old Bill wrote: »

You get a much better picture on an old CRT TV compared with the modern flat sceen TVs.

You do in your bollox

Grayson

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I think I still have a 14" portable in a spare room. (It was our lavish extra telly that we used to rent it in the 80s.)


The original Frankenstein's monster was grey, rather than green. Hollywood coloured him.

So was the original hulk.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/353091/the-many-colors-of-hulkdom-a-complete-guide

cml387

BunkMoreland wrote: »

You do in your bollox

No it's quite true.
The old analogue signal reproduced a moving image far better than modern digital tv's.

Old Bill

cml387 wrote: »

No it's quite true.
The old analogue signal reproduced a moving image far better than modern digital tv's.

CRT TV's beat flat screen TVs in every way apart from resolution.

cml387

cml387 wrote: »

No it's quite true.
The old analogue signal reproduced a moving image far better than modern digital tv's.

Depends on the refresh rate, some of the last generation CRT sets used a 100 hz refresh rate and this produced a clearer image of the movement, than the flat screen TVs of the day. The early flat screen sets used to pixelate due to the electronics not being fast enough.

Capt'n Midnight

buried wrote: »

Whatever about black and white television sets. Some of the greatest films ever made are the Black and White ones. You'll get more entertainment watching those films than the super coloured superhero infested frat rom-com rehash muck movies made today. Had the two nephews over for Halloween, made them watch the original 'Nosferatu' from 1922. It frightened the p!ss out of them and they wanted to know could they watch the "sequels" after it.

Is it sequels you want ?

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog working with Klaus Kinski ,
get them to watch Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God too

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)


And then Young Frankenstein (1974)

Old Bill

Old Bill wrote: »

CRT TV's beat flat screen TVs in every way apart from resolution.

CRT tv's were designed to display vireo broadcasted at 625 lines, there were computer monitors that supported much higher resolutions, so if you nhad a PC with a HD tv tuner you could have watched HD on a CRT monitor.

Capt'n Midnight

Old Bill wrote: »

You get a much better picture on an old CRT TV compared with the modern flat sceen TVs.

No.

Check out how much the CRT's cost in today's money. Then factor in the screens were smaller because they included the thickness of the glass too.

In 1999 a 20" Sony Trinitron monitor cost $559 discounted (Originally $1099.)
$559.00 in 1999 had the same buying power as $806.70 in 2016 = £633.
Today you can get a 55" 4K TV with 24 bit colour.

buried

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Is it sequels you want ?

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog working with Klaus Kinski ,
get them to watch Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God too

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)


And then Young Frankenstein (1974)

"more scary black and white movies" is what they wanted after watching it. The only other one I had was Haxan, but that could have been a bit too much for them. I didn't want to send them back to their mother with nothing but horror stories about me and my movie collection!
Its actually funny thinking back on it now, the two of them probably never seen a black and white film before. It probably added a bit of otherworldliness to it