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Old 11-19-2017, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by maxhifi View Post
TVs used to be considered expensive, growing up in a middle class family, we only had one TV, and it was nearly 20 years old before it was retired. Also, there was a group of people who had only ever had black and white, and wanted the new one to be the same. I heard the justification that black and white is cheaper to repair, well into the 80s.
But couldn't you get an black and white set as the 2nd tv in the house?

In Romania in the '90's tv's where expensive (color ones). But you wished you could have more and good ones. No you can have, but most of the programs are unwatcheble (= pice of crap).
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