Colour TV

[Elbmek]

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BBC 2 Testcard, in a Rumbelows shop window, first colour tv I ever saw!!!

[Fatboy]

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I believe we got our first color TV sometime in 1972. I remember one of the first things I saw in color was the Olympic games in Munich. I also remember back then that the only TVs that had remotes were the high-end models.

I can remember VCR's when I was a kid, having wired remotes, like this one.

[victorbrunswick]

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I believe we got our first color TV sometime in 1972. I remember one of the first things I saw in color was the Olympic games in Munich. I also remember back then that the only TVs that had remotes were the high-end models.

[Fatboy]

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I was born in 71 and as far as I can remember, we always had a colour TV. My Mam & Dad always rented their TV's until around the midish 80s, then they started buying their own TV (perhaps TV's became more affordable then).

[battyrat]

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I can remember we had an old black and white rental when I was young,but cannot quite remember when we first got a coloured tv.I expect it would of been around the time of the queens jubilee,1977.Asking dad,it appears to have been a rental as well,just like our old black and white set.It was not worth owning your own TV back then as it was common for the thing to break down regularly.Have more memories of the tv repair man and the smell of the warm valves then what colour the TV was.I guess I was not all that impressed,or other things took up more of my time like playing out with my mates.Perhaps our neighbours had coloured TV so it was not that much of a shock to the system,just a minor progression of home tech.

[ayrshireman]

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http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/br...ay-you-go.html

[ayrshireman]

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First colour TV:

1974 (ITT model, bought in nice time for the World Cup).

[ayrshireman]

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Freinds of mine rented a TV into the early 90s.....had a 50p slot thing on the back!

I remember the Glasgow Evening Times for years used to advertise 50p slot TV's.
I swear to god that they were still running said ad as late as 2003-2004.

I was working in Glasgow as late as May 2004, then spent 2-3 yrs working in Kilmarnock and Ayr, so stopped reading the Evening Times, so the ad could have run until very recently. Last time I read the print version was last year, I didnt see the ad, so one can assume slot tv's died out in Glasgow 2005-2010.

I am happy to be proven wrong lol.

[Sly]

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That has to be a wind up?

[stuckinthe80's]

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i have seen phones that work the same way.

Are you being serious? Of course you have seen phones that work the same way!!! What do you think was in a Phone Box? I give up!

[darren]

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Freinds of mine rented a TV into the early 90s.....had a 50p slot thing on the back!

i remember them well.
Knew someone who had one.

lots of things like electric metres had slots on them where you could insert monet.
i have seen phones that work the same way.

[Richard1978]

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I've heard of TV's having a meter on them, but have never seen one.

One good thing about renting was that when the TV had a problem you could get it sorted out easily.

I remember an engineer from Granada coming round to sort out my parents telly when they rented one.

Rental shops were often a good source of second hand sets, My uncle got 2-3 for my Grandad this way over the years.

[bakermuk]

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Freinds of mine rented a TV into the early 90s.....had a 50p slot thing on the back!

[Richard1978]

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I remember my parents renting a TV until late 1984, did anyone rent a set beyond the mid 1980s?

I can remember a friend's parents renting a video until the late 1980s, something which kept the rental shops going until the start of the 1990s, when Sky propped things up for a few more years before the whole rental business started to fade away.

[Elbmek]

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And of course those immortal words from the commentator, "for those of you watching in black and white, the pink is behind the blue" which I was actually watching at the time.