100+ Lincolnshire households still watching TV in black and white
MORE than 100 Lincolnshire residents are still watching television in black and white.
Despite the national switch to digital television as well as recent developments in high-definition broadcasting and internet-based 'on demand' services, 119 households in Lincolnshire still have a black and white TV in use.
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Settling down for a night watching black and white TV half-a-century ago before colour sets arrived
As could be expected, the number of black and white licences issued each year has been steadily declining.
In 2000 there were 212,000 black and white TV licences issued, but by 2003 that number had shrunk to 93,000 and, in 2006, the number was less than 50,000.
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At the start of 2013, just 13,202 black and white licences were in force across the UK.
Mark Whitehouse, spokesperson for TV Licensing in East Anglia, said: "It’s remarkable that with the digital switchover complete, 41 per cent of UK households owning HDTVs and Britons leading the world in accessing TV content over the internet, more than 13,000 households still watch their favourite programmes on a black and white telly."
John Trenouth, a television and radio technology historian, added: “Although 13,202 monochrome licences may sound a lot, it's now a tiny percentage of the 25 million licensed viewers in the UK. The numbers of black and white TV sets in regular use has fallen dramatically over the last few years, hastened by the fact that it's now almost impossible to replace them and by the need to buy a suitable set top box to continue to use them after digital switchover."
The cost of a black and white TV licence remains frozen at £49 until BBC Charter Review in 2016. A colour licence costs £145.50.
Comments
by Hunky_n_Funky
Monday, January 14 2013, 10:28PM
“prokopchuk
There are small digital tuners available that transmit through the normal analogue aerial lead. I've previously bought a couple from Aldi, that cost less than £20. I found them useful for video recorders which had limited Scart sockets.
I suppose that there might be TV users that have monochrome vision, or other limited vision, where a colour screen would give no additional benefit, for the extra cost of the colour licence.”
by UPTHEIRON
Monday, January 14 2013, 8:21AM
“Are black & white TV licences still £18 ?”
by prokopchuk
Monday, January 14 2013, 7:34AM
“It would be very interesting to discover how these people are watching their black and white TVs. They cannot use the internal tuner and the majority would have no scart or video input built in to the set, therefore it would be difficult to connect to a free view box. They may be using a modulator / video recorder to get video in via the aerial socket , but not without some tedious effort.”