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11-13-2009 @ 4:34PM
Captain Obvious said...
"to see how it looks and see if it gets any better (note: does not work with Pauly Shore movies)"
As if you could improve perfection!
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11-13-2009 @ 4:38PM
tingrin87 said...
i don't own a TV. i have hulu.
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11-13-2009 @ 4:51PM
Nacho said...
I'd imagine the overlap of people that watch black and white tv and the people that have internet (and manage to find discussion blogs on television at that) are pretty much so zero.
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11-13-2009 @ 11:58PM
mettlemod said...
That was my thought exactly!
11-13-2009 @ 6:17PM
Dan said...
To contextualize this, it's possibly because a black-and-white TV license is cheaper in the UK, and I'd assume blind people buy them.
Their license is already a concession price (as they can't SEE the TV only hear it), so it makes sense they'd also buy a B&W set to cut their costs even further. So, 30,000 blind and financially canny people doesn't seem so strange.
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11-13-2009 @ 5:20PM
Jon said...
I'm guessing that this is more an issue of people entering that they have a B&W tv instead of a color one so that they can pay the smaller license fee.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/
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11-13-2009 @ 8:54PM
mb said...
The B & W TV I have is one of those old battery operated ones "Travel" ones from 20 years ago.
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11-13-2009 @ 10:14PM
MCW said...
Yeah, I assume a lot of people do. That's the kind I have... takes about 90 D batteries (Hmm... I guess the antenna won't work on it anymore though - darn).
I've never figured out what made it so hard for Wal*mart to figure out how to get COLOR into those travel weather band radio/TVs. Guess they ran out of that magic paint that mixes inside the screen to create Andy Rooney's bush baby eyebrows.
11-14-2009 @ 10:11AM
Donna said...
Well I have a 5" portable B/W TV in my bedroom that I actually used a LOT -- until the digital TV conversion last summer, and now it doesn't get anything. However, I do have a converter box that isn't being used (because the old analog TV I bought it for finally died), so I might just plug it into that and start using it again.
But, alas, right now, the only working TV is the 13" in the living room, which has its own digital tuner. (I don't have cable, I still use rabbit ears.)
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11-14-2009 @ 10:14AM
Donna said...
(To clarify the above -- the 13" is a color TV. So, right now, I'm not watching a B/W TV at all, am I? LOL)
12-17-2009 @ 9:59PM
portable color tvs said...
We had a black and white TV when I was 2 years old. But today, I have a very small portable TV and it is very cool. The signal was very clear. You can watch anything on it. You can also plug in a DVD player and watch video with it.
portable color tvs
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