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Remember Black&White
Anyone old enough to remember pre-colour days?
Pot Black was a bugger to watch. |
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I was born in 1975, so black and white programmes were few and far between.
I still own a 1970's 12 volt battery/240 volt mains B&W 12inch portable TV with 4 tunable channels. which still works today. |
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Yep. No colour 3D, HD, Stereo etc just captivating television. Now we have cameras following Jordan and Coronation Street trying to be like a bond movie.
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I remember it very well, not forgetting the continental interference that wiped out BBC1 every summer.
My parents rented a 23" Pye set in the early 70s with an annoying picture fault on 625 that made watching BBC2 very unpleasant. We had to watch most programmes on 405 lines for a few years, not nice on a 23" screen. ![]() I agree with the comment about the programmes though. |
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I think it tells you something when the TV companies only keep telling you about digital, HD and other fluff instead of producing first class shows. I was born in the early 70's and whether it is black and white or colour, content is everything. We did not have colour until the early 80's in fact. Look at the Jeremy Brett episodes of Sherlock Holmes as an example - almost painfully made on gritty tape but after a few minutes that is forgotten and the plot and acting takes over.
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Anyone old enough to remember pre-colour days?
Pot Black was a bugger to watch. "For those of you watching in Black & White, the pink is the ball behind the yellow" (or something close to that)
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Famous quote from early colour snooker commentry :-
"For those of you watching in Black & White, the pink is the ball behind the yellow" (or something close to that) ![]() ![]()
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I was born in 1990 but we had an old black and white TV as well as a colour one and when the colour TV went in for repair we would use the black and white as a spare. I didn't like watching stuff on it though, I much preferred our colour TV. Eventually got rid of that old TV when I was 10 (gave it to a charity shop). It was an old Matsui portable with an aerial on top.
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I had a 14" PYE black and white TV when I was a kid in the late 80s / early 90s. I wanted a TV in my bedroom and it was all that my parents could afford then. It was even used as our main TV for some months, when the main colour set broke down.
Didn't mind watching stuff in black and white and thus I don't mind old black + white TV shows and movies. Some TV shows that made the transition to colour in those early days, looked all the worse for it. |
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If my memory serves me well it was Yellow behind the Blue. Whispered beautifully by the late Ted Lowe.
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I remember hearing this but although it sounds ridiculous depending on the position of the balls it actually makes sense. Providing the blue was on it's spot then any snooker aficionado would understand immediately which was the yellow ball.
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Yep. No colour 3D, HD, Stereo etc just captivating television. Now we have cameras following Jordan and Coronation Street trying to be like a bond movie.
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We got our first colour telly in 1971. It arrived on a Friday afternoon and the whole family were glued to it all weekend. We would watch anything that was on and in colour! Farming,gardening programmes on Sunday etc.
I do have a fondness for the B&W era and remember clearly at the age of 2 not being able to watch Play School in 1964 as we didn't have a UHF aerial or television so it was the test card on BBC1 or nothing... |
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We didnt own a colour tv until about 1980 think it was a Ferguson it had horrid touch buttons that when damp you couldnt change channels, and we had an old b+w portable with the dial tuner remember them.
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We didnt own a colour tv until about 1980 think it was a Ferguson it had horrid touch buttons that when damp you couldnt change channels, and we had an old b+w portable with the dial tuner remember them.
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We had a B/W tv set until 1976, when we got a 19" colour one s/hand. We also had a Teleton portable so I was well used to B/W, and lots of stuff then was still in B/W, including news outside reports etc. then it would be colour again back in the studio!
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We also had a Teleton portable so I was well used to B/W!
We have had a couple in the last year or two come back for disposal (having had a new TV), both were 100% working and a perfect picture - we placed them in our 'museum' room. |
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Our b/w tv was a bit of wooden furniture with a tube in the middle. It had a slatted wooden door that covered the screen when not in use. The channel dial was at the back - you had to grope behind the set to feel the dial and then turn it. So it was mostly left on BBC1.
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Yep, very well!
I also remember listening to BBC2 sound only,, on a dual standard Radio Rentals Baird tv with UHF tuner, before the 625 lines timebase conversion kit was added .......... |
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Famous quote from early colour snooker commentry :-
"For those of you watching in Black & White, the pink is the ball behind the yellow" (or something close to that) ![]() While I assume Ted Lowe did use the line in Pot Black it would have been edited out before broadcast . When the footage was replayed on It'll Be Alright on the Night the voiceover sounds rehearsed and pre-recorded rather than being what was actually done at the time. If it did go out its like the original was wiped anyway and they got Ted Lowe to redo it. A similar IBAOTN fake happened with an Anglia weatherman presenting a blank forecast map. I know that because I saw the original when it went out |
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Our b/w tv was a bit of wooden furniture with a tube in the middle. It had a slatted wooden door that covered the screen when not in use. The channel dial was at the back - you had to grope behind the set to feel the dial and then turn it. So it was mostly left on BBC1.
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I think the footage of that is fake.
While I assume Ted Lowe did use the line in Pot Black it would have been edited out before broadcast . |
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As far as I'm aware Pot Black (like most snooker) was a live broadcast.
However the commentary was not dubbed over. |
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One memory was watching Tomorrow's World doing an experiment which made colour appear on a black & white TV. Sounds impossible but apparently they were using what is called the Fechner color effect where rapidly moving black & white images gives the illusion of colour.
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Apparently the BBC recorded the series in a single day and released it as a half hour programme weekly. The results being kept secret until transmission was over.
However the commentary was not dubbed over. I don't know if Pot Black used more than a single camera or not? - possibly not? - it's a LONG time ago
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