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Old 12th Aug 2018, 1:47 am   #32
radiograham
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Default Re: TV is a lot more modern than you thought...

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Originally Posted by Welsh Anorak View Post
Fake news!!!
In reply to post #13, I would argue the very big push came when digital arrived. It was the excuse the more careful customer needed to change as, understandably, they didn't want all the trouble with digiboxes and so on. It was fortuitous for the industry that the flat panel TV was mature technology by that time in a similar way that the colour boom happened in the early Seventies.
Believe it or not I know some joe public who thought if you didn't convert your TV to use a set top box by the due date it was impossible to do it afterwards!.
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