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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who 2024 and its position in the UK TV charts
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:28:31 +1000
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Your Name wrote on 29/6/24 9:19 am:
> On 2024-06-28 13:04:41 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>> Blueshirt wrote on 27/6/24 9:30 pm:
>>> Your Name wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-26 18:26:47 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>> You couldn't watch new episodes of Doctor Who 28 days after
>>>>> it was broadcast on BBC1 in 1974, you can now.
>>>>
>>>> 1974, no, but in 1976 you could ... if you were rich enough to
>>>> buy the then new-fangled home video recorder, and that would
>>>> not have been counted in the ridiculously meaningless
>>>> 'ratings' nonsense.  :-)
>>>
>>> 1976?! We just about had colour TV over here by then! :-)
>>
>> Yeap! I brought my Mum a Colour Portable T.V. for Christmas 1975!!
>>
>> I brought a (BETA) VCR Late 1982.
> 
> 1976 was when the first consumer-level video recorder was released in 
> Japan, but they were expensive.  :-)
> 
I finished my Electronics Apprenticeship late 1976, so dollars would 
have been tight at that time!!
-- 
Daniel