Can you do without TV?
 

Would you be able to do without TV for a week?

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I could i dont watch it that often anyway. Its normally just sat there in the corner turned off. Only watch a couple of programmes a week if that - thats when i remember to turn it on!!! :D

I couldnt do without the net or my computer though! :D

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Could quite easily do without a TV. A large proportion of the programmes shown are bat droppings anyway.

However, I could not do without my hi-fi, which I use everyday!

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Funnily enough just had this discussion with the kids - apparently im jurrassic:D

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Yes, I would have no problem living without TV......please,please don't take away my computer or my MP3 player will you?

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Apart from Sky Sports News I could manage without it. If you took it away even SSN would be a distant memory in afew days. Everything I need is online.

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well if i had a choice of tv or pc ..then im sorry but the telly would have to go....

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Telly has gone here anyway - the kids have taken it:D but i have my laptop which is all i require on it including my music hehehe:D

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I could live without the TV, but I'm glad I don't have to. If I had to make a choice between the TV or the computer, the TV would win. I'd still have internet access at work ;)

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the clear answer is NO :D

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I'd miss Coronation Street but that's about all.I'd probably miss the computer more.

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Devonian actually:D

And I can most definitely do without tv.

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TV wouldn't be much of a problem, perhaps a nuisance occasionally but thats about it. prefer radio,PC, n me music.:)

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Could I do without it? Well, I think the answer is yes. Do I want to live without it? Well, I think the answer is no!

I have my front room set up so that I can mess about on my P.C. but I can also keep an eye on the 'magic fish tank', in the corner, I'm selective about what I'll have on in the background, (sorry ladies, if you need to keep up with the soaps not in this house you won't), but it is a nice bit of background noise that keeps me company. So other than when, like Wynonie I'm listening to my music, I would miss the box. :D

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Wouldnt miss the TV but that comp yes hifi yes microwave yes. :D

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i get tv on my laptop so no problem getting rid of tv just dont think kids would be happy

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i only watch tv at night! thats why iv only got 2 kids...:D, not like the old days when they used to have 8 to 10 kids because they didnt have telly, so tellys can be useful especially when not in the mood;)....heheh

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My sister and I were brought up without tv, the first one I had was when I married the first wife, she drove me to it.:D

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We had no electric never mind TV.
Impossible to run on Calor Gas.

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I'm curious Royboy, caravan?, we had no money and tv was in it's infacy, we did used to watch it at a friends who's dad worked in the trade, I think I would be about 10 years of age when it came on line, do you remember 'Relay Radio'?

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No....Farm
Yes I do remember but we had a small portable radio which weighed a ton and the batteries cost a fortune.

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My family lived at no 9 Scaitclife St in 1944 we had gas, no electric and a 'slop stone' sink with a cold tap, the 'wireless' we had was called a 'cumulator' mam used to get batteries charged up at local garage, they were 'wet' batteries containing sulphuric acid would not be allowed today I'm afraid.

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I lived at Park Farm in Church from 1950.
All we had at that time was calor gas and lamp-oil.
My stepfather had to pay to have a trench dug across the field from Church Kirk bridge to the farm for the electric cables........this was in 1953.
Then we had television and a fridge for the first time.
We could milk the cows by machine instead of by hand.
Happy days?

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I'll put the white flag up to that post Royboy we had it hard but not as hard as you, I bet you know what hard work was like from an early age, never mind the luxury of television. There are a few people I would like to take back in time for week, if they lived that long.;)

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What was Relay Radio ?

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Thanks for that Ian.
Still carrying the segs but still here.

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I almost do without it now because I am very selective in my viewing. But I wouldn’t like to do without it altogether. I could manage but I wouldn’t like it ‘cos I would miss the odd programme, like Dr Who, Panorama, Question Time, the wild life documentaries and the like, football when it is on and the rare occasion when an unseen film is put on.

For me 90% of the programmes on all the free view channels are either rubbish or repeats.

I remember Relay Radio Ianto.W. In fact I remember it that well because I worked for them before I joined the navy. I rewired much of Accrington and district so that subscribers could have Radio Luxembourg. I suppose that you would call it cable radio today.

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Was that the early days of Rediffusion. I remember there used to be a switch box on the windowsill at my grandparents house which was for both tv and radio. I also remember them having a large building just off Barden Lane in Burnley

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It was supplied by a local company called Relay Radio, it consisted of two channels at first medium wave and long wave, if you paid a bit more you could get radio Luxembourg but that came later. It was a simple idea that consisted of a 'master' radio and wires going from house to house that were connected to speakers with a knob on them that had three positions. Collectors came round each week to collect the money, the bloke who thought it up made a fortune. I think it went on to be called Relay Vision after, renting out tv's but I could be wrong.

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It sounds like what I was on about with Rediffusion but now I'm not sure i it was Relayvision. :) . Seems to be the thing I was talking about though.

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You beat me to the punch there jambutty, yes I had a good idea they had to put an extra wire in for radio Luxembourg, but i'll tell you what we had hours of pleasure from that little box in the corner of the window.:D.

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I could probably manage without watching the tele - but what on earth would I point all my furniture at? :)

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Actually Ianto.W. the name of the company was Radio Relay and their shop was on Abbey Street. Indeed when TV rentals first came out the shop name was changed to Relay Vision and I ended up installing TV aerials. When Blackpool played Bolton in the 1953 Cup Final (and won 4 – 3) they set up a large room upstairs where people could sit and watch the match on a 12” telly. They did the same for the coronation.

I don’t know when Radio Relay first started but it was only with one channel, the Home Service. Later on they wired in the Light Programme and then finally Radio Luxembourg. By the time that they had finished that, real radios powered by the mains and not accumulators (wet batteries) were cheap and reliable enough for most people to buy. There was going to be a fourth channel but it never got off the ground.

The master radio was at Abbey Street and from there the channels were sent to a large amplifier in each district and from there to each house via overhead cables, a switch usually on the window frame with a speaker on the mantelpiece or sideboard. When any of the large power amplifier valves burned out, we used to turn them into fish tanks. The PA valves were large – about 6 inches in diameter and about 15 inches tall. We would cut the glass at the base, throw away the gubbins, turn the glass upside down and bed it in a suitable sized pie dish with plaster and there you had it – a fish tank.

There was a TV rental company called Redifussion lancsdave but it was in opposition to Relay Vision.

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To crash on and listen to music. :p

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There was very little in those days that got thrown away, the old radio arials off redundant tanks were in big demand for making fishing rods out of, we used to get those at the army surplus shop. Thank's for the info jambutty, brings back happy memories of childhood.

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I’ve just remembered – it wasn’t Radio Relay it was Uni-Relay that did cable radio for the Accrington district.

Sorry about that. It’s an age thing.

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It is nice to be on holiday without a television, so I could live without it, if I wanted to, but I don't.

I look through the TV guide in the Sunday papers, and mark what I fancy watching.

There are some wonderful programmes...and there's some real dross. I like to watch a selection of both.:D

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Tut tut should have said I was looking at the wrong page of info. :p

Mind you I am still young and have a bad memory and struggle remembering last week never mind 30+ years ago. :o