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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.
Do you remember them.
It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now.   |
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"I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.
Do you remember them.
It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now. "
yea my dad used to rent one from telefusion because it included the licece fee as well and the tarriff was set quite high so we would get a rebate about 4x a year  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my god...my fathers just got a tv about two minutes ago and this was my first thought!............he was expecting a 3d smart tv..but got something else hahahaa.....dunno if its coin or gas operated lol |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"my god...my fathers just got a tv about two minutes ago and this was my first thought!............he was expecting a 3d smart tv..but got something else hahahaa.....dunno if its coin or gas operated lol"
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Didnt have one at home, rented from rumbelows and my mum went down each week and paid it. But when we went on holiday they had coin operated ones.
Noone used to own their own televisions in those days, well not working class people |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Telebank was another company that did that, think we had one for a while but didn't last very long. Was frustating every time it went off and had no change to put in the bloody thing lol. |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"Telebank was another company that did that, think we had one for a while but didn't last very long. Was frustating every time it went off and had no change to put in the bloody thing lol."
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Actually i just told a lie. My grandparents where the first in their village to own (have at all) a television. The reason was my grandad worked for the farmer and the wooden bit on the surround got slightly fire damaged so he gave it to my grandad. Apparently all the kids in the village used to crowd round after sunday school to watch the lone ranger |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"Actually i just told a lie. My grandparents where the first in their village to own (have at all) a television. The reason was my grandad worked for the farmer and the wooden bit on the surround got slightly fire damaged so he gave it to my grandad. Apparently all the kids in the village used to crowd round after sunday school to watch the lone ranger"
Nothing wrong with watch the lone ranger,and Champion The Wonder Horse.  |
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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago
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You can still get them. A friend of mine had one only a few years back. She was always asking me for change and it was a pain for her when it kept on running out. She gave it back in the end. She didn't get anything back as the interest was very high!  |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"You can still get them. A friend of mine had one only a few years back. She was always asking me for change and it was a pain for her when it kept on running out. She gave it back in the end. She didn't get anything back as the interest was very high! "
I didn't know that you could still get them.  |
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"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines I don't remember seeing that switch on our tv."
There were no pre-sets on it, you had to move the dial round until you found the station. |
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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines I don't remember seeing that switch on our tv.
There were no pre-sets on it, you had to move the dial round until you found the station."
Yes I do remember it silly me it a mind thing at my age |
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"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines "
i remember that, we had one of them, it was when bbc2 came online and that was on 625 lines where bbc1 and itv were on 405 lines
(guess lines were the early pixels) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Had one in my apartment in tenerife last year. cost 1 euro per hour.for a 14in crt model that must have been 10 years old.
and only had channel 4 in english |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.
Do you remember them.
It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now. "
Tried this with fifty pence ice cube and blew the telly lol  |
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We dropped a lad home after work - invited in for coffee. Similar tv meter, but it was a form of savings system. They owned the tv, and a company came to empty the meter and gave them a proportion of the cash. Imagine running out of coins, missing your show, just because you need someone to help you 'save' some cash up! |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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"Didnt have one at home, rented from rumbelows and my mum went down each week and paid it. But when we went on holiday they had coin operated ones.
Noone used to own their own televisions in those days, well not working class people"
Ours used to be rented from Robinson Rentals which went on to be (taken over by?) Granada. Think we also had coin television when we went on holiday too! |
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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago
Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria |
I can remember coin operated tellys on holiday, but ours were always rented from either radio rentals or DER...when I first bought a house, we rented a TV, think we bought our first in about 1990 |
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