Our TV has finally gone on the fritz...
Apr. 21st, 2007 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrishansenhomeAs we pay more than GBP 110 (US $220 and SG$ 330) a year for a TV license, when the TV dies it is a major problem. Technically we do not have to pay the license if we don't have a working TV, but we really need a new one. So, we're off to Curry's this morning to look at TVs.
This TV is one that I think we could live with. HWMBO, of course, feels it's too expensive and perhaps too big for the living room. I think it's more likely that it will fit (as there's nothing much at that end of the room anyway) and it will be enough TV for all the innovations that we will be needing in the future. High definition, digital, with all the connectors one needs. The Samsung (RIP) only had a SCART lead and an antenna lead, as life was simpler then. HDTV was only a gleam in someone's eye, if that, as was the DVD player. VCRs were about as sophisticated as it gets.
This TV is also attractive, but with the GBP 50 surcharge for a large product it is pricier than the previous one.
As we don't watch much TV, we don't want to spend TOO much on this one, but I think it's important not to spend too little and have a dinky TV that doesn't do everything that we will want it to do and, worse, will have to be replaced later on when new things come out that we might want. So, it's off to Curry's we go. More later when we've finally agreed on something.
Oh dear, I'll have to clean up the living room, too...
This TV is one that I think we could live with. HWMBO, of course, feels it's too expensive and perhaps too big for the living room. I think it's more likely that it will fit (as there's nothing much at that end of the room anyway) and it will be enough TV for all the innovations that we will be needing in the future. High definition, digital, with all the connectors one needs. The Samsung (RIP) only had a SCART lead and an antenna lead, as life was simpler then. HDTV was only a gleam in someone's eye, if that, as was the DVD player. VCRs were about as sophisticated as it gets.
This TV is also attractive, but with the GBP 50 surcharge for a large product it is pricier than the previous one.
As we don't watch much TV, we don't want to spend TOO much on this one, but I think it's important not to spend too little and have a dinky TV that doesn't do everything that we will want it to do and, worse, will have to be replaced later on when new things come out that we might want. So, it's off to Curry's we go. More later when we've finally agreed on something.
Oh dear, I'll have to clean up the living room, too...
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Re: Break out the TV monitoring vans!
Date: 2007-04-21 06:35 pm (UTC)That's kind of howe I thought it worked -- but if you never watch live television, and have a television set with a DVD built in, they COULD try to charge you.
Do they still have the television detector vans that troll the streets for unlicenced television sets?
I'm "up in the air" about licencing fees -- I really think the day is done, and the BBC should simply get a flat-rate grant from the government, of which, the funds are to specificially go to programming -- not executive salaries!
Time will tell...