(15-11-2019, 01:08 PM)colly0410 Wrote: I'm sure I remember reading somewhere about decolourised TV sets that some coin meter rental firms rented out, they were colour sets that had the 4.43 Mhz sub-carrier crystal removed so they could only show a black & white picture so a cheaper licence. They had a certificate to show the BBC cops if they turned up wanting to know why no colour licence...
That was done but it did not need anything as extreme as the crystal removed. A company I knew enquired with the authorities and just had to permanently disable colour (as far as the customer was concerned). It was done as there was a relative shortage of black and whte sets and abundance of colour as, I think, the rental market was diminishing.
(apologies to Richard as the article explains much - The company I am on about was small local)
Tracy
