13-11-2019, 08:34 PM
Could a moderator please change 600 in the thread title to 6000 please.
The point about B&W sets is that even the very last ones didn't have SCART sockets and very few of any kind had any sort of video input. Sets like the monitor version of the Sony TV9-90 were hardly a normal domestic item. This means that somebody dedicated to watching in B&W after digital switchover would have to explicitly get a Freeview box with modulator. Available but relatively rare. You can imagine that some folk eligable for the assistance scheme would have had B&W sets. The Goodmans box mainly used for that scheme does have a modulator.
The only authentic B&W watcher I know of was a woman from Brighton(?) who phoned in to her local radio station after the last B&W licence story a year or two back. I was on several local stations after that story. Got a bit fed up with (mostly) clueless presenters after doing several interviews in a day.
The point about B&W sets is that even the very last ones didn't have SCART sockets and very few of any kind had any sort of video input. Sets like the monitor version of the Sony TV9-90 were hardly a normal domestic item. This means that somebody dedicated to watching in B&W after digital switchover would have to explicitly get a Freeview box with modulator. Available but relatively rare. You can imagine that some folk eligable for the assistance scheme would have had B&W sets. The Goodmans box mainly used for that scheme does have a modulator.
The only authentic B&W watcher I know of was a woman from Brighton(?) who phoned in to her local radio station after the last B&W licence story a year or two back. I was on several local stations after that story. Got a bit fed up with (mostly) clueless presenters after doing several interviews in a day.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
