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

LordSutch · 03-12-2016 09:56PM #1

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 · 03-12-2016 10:02PM

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

SCOOP 64 · 03-12-2016 10:03PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:04PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:08PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:10PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:11PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:14PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:14PM

Did anyone else immediately think of The Backwards Man?

osarusan · 03-12-2016 10:16PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:21PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:23PM

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

Laois_Man · 03-12-2016 10:27PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:43PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:45PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:47PM

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 · 03-12-2016 10:52PM

Jesus that clown :P

feargale · 03-12-2016 10:56PM

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 · 03-12-2016 11:01PM

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 · 03-12-2016 11:34PM

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

buried · 03-12-2016 11:43PM

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 · 03-12-2016 11:50PM

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 · 03-12-2016 11:55PM

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 · 04-12-2016 12:03AM

my black and white set does me fine.

I only watch snooker anyway.

Badly Drunk Boy · 04-12-2016 12:07AM

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 · 04-12-2016 12:10AM

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 · 04-12-2016 12:39AM

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

04-12-2016 01:18AM

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 · 04-12-2016 01:21AM

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 · 04-12-2016 01:23AM

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 · 04-12-2016 01:25AM

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.

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

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