Black & White TV Licence

[Saleen836]

Heard a report on the radio other day regarding the above, apparently there are still just over 7000 people watching tv with a B&W licence!
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news...

[A Winner Is You]

Can't even see how it's possible now the analogue signal has been switched off, you'd need a black and white tv with a scart socket, which must have been pretty rare. Unless they're dogs.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Saleen836 said:

Heard a report on the radio other day regarding the above, apparently there are still just over 7000 people watching tv with a B&W licence!
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news...

Fixed that for you

[anonymous-user]

I have just changed my TV settings to B+W
It reminds me of growing up. I shall be watching an episode of Thunderbirds later to fully recapture the thrill of my youth
This thread is inspirational;
Thank you

[anonymous-user]

Just trying it with Ultimate Force
It's actually quite good

[TwigtheWonderkid]

A Winner Is You said:

Can't even see how it's possible now the analogue signal has been switched off, you'd need a black and white tv with a scart socket, which must have been pretty rare. Unless they're dogs.

Which makes me wonder, when we had dog licences, was there a B&W option. Like a cheaper licence if you had a Dalmatian?

[NoAdverseDevelopments]

B&W license doesn't necessarily mean you have to forego colour pictures. A blind neighbour of my parents pays for one and just listens to the sound, it's like a discount scheme.

[Oakey]

techiedave said:

Just trying it with Ultimate Force
It's actually quite good

Does that one bird's tits still look great in B&W?

[P-Jay]

A Winner Is You said:

Can't even see how it's possible now the analogue signal has been switched off, you'd need a black and white tv with a scart socket, which must have been pretty rare. Unless they're dogs.

I thought the same and even commented on Twitter in reply to tweet Martin Lewis put out, I was besieged by people all saying if you have this certain, very early Sky digital set-top box it still had an RF/Coax output effectively making at Digital to Analogue converter so you could tune your B&W TV to the Sky Digital signal.

So all you need is a Sky Box from the late 90s, a TV from no newer than the early 2000s (remarkably you could still buy a brand new B&W TV in 2001) and you could enjoy Black and White TV in all it's fuzzy glory.

Of course, of the 7000 people who claim to have a B&W TV there are a few special cases and a lot of tight people who are completely full of st.

[ElectricSoup]

P-Jay said:

A Winner Is You said:

Can't even see how it's possible now the analogue signal has been switched off, you'd need a black and white tv with a scart socket, which must have been pretty rare. Unless they're dogs.

I thought the same and even commented on Twitter in reply to tweet Martin Lewis put out, I was besieged by people all saying if you have this certain, very early Sky digital set-top box it still had an RF/Coax output effectively making at Digital to Analogue converter so you could tune your B&W TV to the Sky Digital signal.

So all you need is a Sky Box from the late 90s, a TV from no newer than the early 2000s (remarkably you could still buy a brand new B&W TV in 2001) and you could enjoy Black and White TV in all it's fuzzy glory.

Of course, of the 7000 people who claim to have a B&W TV there are a few special cases and a lot of tight people who are completely full of st.

I still have a 90s Sky box, Panasonic made, best one ever, it's absolutely flawless still, unlike the SKY+ and SKY+ HD boxes elsewhere in the house which both have faults, which only works properly with CRT TVs. It's in my bedroom and is the reason there's a 28" CRT TV in there too. I remember buying the TV and it was amazingly huge at the time. Absolutely microscopic now.

[S100HP]

I watched Psycho last night. Can I claim a refund?

[Cold]

S100HP said:

I watched Psycho last night. Can I claim a refund?

I watched the Wizard of Oz, so umm...

[anonymous-user]

ElectricSoup said:

I still have a 90s Sky box, Panasonic made, best one ever, it's absolutely flawless still, unlike the SKY+ and SKY+ HD boxes elsewhere in the house which both have faults, which only works properly with CRT TVs. It's in my bedroom and is the reason there's a 28" CRT TV in there too. I remember buying the TV and it was amazingly huge at the time. Absolutely microscopic now.

Are you interested in meeting up ?

[ElectricSoup]

techiedave said:

ElectricSoup said:

I still have a 90s Sky box, Panasonic made, best one ever, it's absolutely flawless still, unlike the SKY+ and SKY+ HD boxes elsewhere in the house which both have faults, which only works properly with CRT TVs. It's in my bedroom and is the reason there's a 28" CRT TV in there too. I remember buying the TV and it was amazingly huge at the time. Absolutely microscopic now.

Are you interested in meeting up ?

[Camelot1971]

ElectricSoup said:

techiedave said:

ElectricSoup said:

I still have a 90s Sky box, Panasonic made, best one ever, it's absolutely flawless still, unlike the SKY+ and SKY+ HD boxes elsewhere in the house which both have faults, which only works properly with CRT TVs. It's in my bedroom and is the reason there's a 28" CRT TV in there too. I remember buying the TV and it was amazingly huge at the time. Absolutely microscopic now.

Are you interested in meeting up ?

I think your humour is lost on them, Dave.

[Shakermaker]

Camelot1971 said:

ElectricSoup said:

techiedave said:

ElectricSoup said:

I still have a 90s Sky box, Panasonic made, best one ever, it's absolutely flawless still, unlike the SKY+ and SKY+ HD boxes elsewhere in the house which both have faults, which only works properly with CRT TVs. It's in my bedroom and is the reason there's a 28" CRT TV in there too. I remember buying the TV and it was amazingly huge at the time. Absolutely microscopic now.

Are you interested in meeting up ?

I think your humour is lost on them, Dave.

He probably doesn't even have a basic grasp of Latin

[ElectricSoup]

Parrot count increasing.

[Shakermaker]

ElectricSoup said:

Parrot count increasing.

Its a (slightly tenuous) reference to the words of Alan Partridge.

[ElectricSoup]

Shakermaker said:

ElectricSoup said:

Parrot count increasing.

Its a (slightly tenuous) reference to the words of Alan Partridge.

Ah. Not an area of specialist knowledge for me.

Carry on.

[anonymous-user]

Electric Soup
I am deeply sorry for the confusion caused. I admire your use of a CRT

Anyway moving on last night I briefly watched the end of night live roulette wheel shenanigans channel filler
It is perfectly possible to distinguish between black and red on a black and white screen
I am looking forward to a season 2 episode of Space 1999 in Black and white tonight