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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.

Do you remember them.

It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.

Do you remember them.

It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now. "

yea my dad used to rent one from telefusion because it included the licece fee as well and the tarriff was set quite high so we would get a rebate about 4x a year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my god...my fathers just got a tv about two minutes ago and this was my first thought!............he was expecting a 3d smart tv..but got something else hahahaa.....dunno if its coin or gas operated lol

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"my god...my fathers just got a tv about two minutes ago and this was my first thought!............he was expecting a 3d smart tv..but got something else hahahaa.....dunno if its coin or gas operated lol"

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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

Good god that takes me back! We didnt have one but a friend of mine did and her Mum used to send us up to the corner shop to get change for it

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Didnt have one at home, rented from rumbelows and my mum went down each week and paid it. But when we went on holiday they had coin operated ones.

Noone used to own their own televisions in those days, well not working class people

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Telebank was another company that did that, think we had one for a while but didn't last very long. Was frustating every time it went off and had no change to put in the bloody thing lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is that a form of prostitution. Tv's that work for money

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Telebank was another company that did that, think we had one for a while but didn't last very long. Was frustating every time it went off and had no change to put in the bloody thing lol."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol at the above...form of prostitution! Hehehe

I went butlins about 20yrs ago...the gas meter was cheaper than the tv!

We froze that night!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Actually i just told a lie. My grandparents where the first in their village to own (have at all) a television. The reason was my grandad worked for the farmer and the wooden bit on the surround got slightly fire damaged so he gave it to my grandad. Apparently all the kids in the village used to crowd round after sunday school to watch the lone ranger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I knew a girl who had one and it wasn't that far back. Think she had it from Powerhouse. Relationship didn't last as I ran out if enthusiasm

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Actually i just told a lie. My grandparents where the first in their village to own (have at all) a television. The reason was my grandad worked for the farmer and the wooden bit on the surround got slightly fire damaged so he gave it to my grandad. Apparently all the kids in the village used to crowd round after sunday school to watch the lone ranger"

Nothing wrong with watch the lone ranger,and Champion The Wonder Horse.

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

You can still get them. A friend of mine had one only a few years back. She was always asking me for change and it was a pain for her when it kept on running out. She gave it back in the end. She didn't get anything back as the interest was very high!

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"You can still get them. A friend of mine had one only a few years back. She was always asking me for change and it was a pain for her when it kept on running out. She gave it back in the end. She didn't get anything back as the interest was very high! "

I didn't know that you could still get them.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had one in the 90's, pretty sure it was from radio rentals.

gimp

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines "
I don't remember seeing that switch on our tv.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines I don't remember seeing that switch on our tv."

There were no pre-sets on it, you had to move the dial round until you found the station.

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines I don't remember seeing that switch on our tv.

There were no pre-sets on it, you had to move the dial round until you found the station."

Yes I do remember it silly me it a mind thing at my age

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

with how the tvs are coming with technology id rent again and again, as updating would be easier thn buying a new one every 12 minths

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't remember them but my OH has just said he does and that on a saturday morning they would watch monster films with pay tv

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By *vsnikkiTV/TS
over a year ago

Limavady

I don't need money but my face lights up when someone slips one into my slot at the back

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts


"Although not coin operated, I remember we had a set that had a switch on it whereby you could change between 405 and 625 lines "

i remember that, we had one of them, it was when bbc2 came online and that was on 625 lines where bbc1 and itv were on 405 lines

(guess lines were the early pixels)

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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love


"I don't need money but my face lights up when someone slips one into my slot at the back"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Had one in my apartment in tenerife last year. cost 1 euro per hour.for a 14in crt model that must have been 10 years old.

and only had channel 4 in english

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I remember my mum & dad had one of these when I was a kid in the 70's.

Do you remember them.

It was just like renting a TV. You put coins in the slot at the back. It allowed you to watch for a number of hours, just like prepaid electric meters now. "

Tried this with fifty pence ice cube and blew the telly lol

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

We dropped a lad home after work - invited in for coffee. Similar tv meter, but it was a form of savings system. They owned the tv, and a company came to empty the meter and gave them a proportion of the cash. Imagine running out of coins, missing your show, just because you need someone to help you 'save' some cash up!

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!


"Didnt have one at home, rented from rumbelows and my mum went down each week and paid it. But when we went on holiday they had coin operated ones.

Noone used to own their own televisions in those days, well not working class people"

Ours used to be rented from Robinson Rentals which went on to be (taken over by?) Granada. Think we also had coin television when we went on holiday too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They are still available, someone I know had one a few months ago

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

I can remember coin operated tellys on holiday, but ours were always rented from either radio rentals or DER...when I first bought a house, we rented a TV, think we bought our first in about 1990

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In these modern times we've moved from coin operated TV's to sky subscriptions!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just shoved all my loose change in to Tina Titz and still havent got a good reception

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"They are still available, someone I know had one a few months ago"

Yes they are but it's more away of buying the tv rather then paying to view it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I just shoved all my loose change in to Tina Titz and still havent got a good reception "

But does she have a high rate of interest?

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