Saturday, 23 April 2011

Digital switchover

What do people* do with their old tellies?


Chuck 'em in the canal, of course.


Or just put them on the towpath for someone else to try the float/sink test.

I lost count of all the abandoned TVs I saw either in or by the cut. Presumably they were seen as inferior to the owners' new, expensive, LCD, "HD ready" digital models and therefore surplus to requirements. Didn't they know that they could simply have added a £20 freeview box to give them digital reception? And the picture on a CRT set is vastly superior to that on most LCD televisions I've seen.

*Not all people

1 comment:

Vallypee said...

We see that a lot over here too. Koos tells me it's a legacy from the days when it was just the norm to chuck all your rubbish in the canal...in those days, though, things were mostly bio-degradable....no further comment.