Apr
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The telly box
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This weekend, on a whim, we bobbed into Martin Dawes, from whom we’ve been renting a telly and the like since January 1998. We wander in once a year or so to see whether they’ve any new offers for us or could reduce our payments for anything (the Sony video recorder which had an original selling price of £340 has cost us about a pound or month for some time).
We have a 28″ widescreen IDTV from Panasonic and a Sony DVD recorder at the moment. Neither is at all old— we may have had the TV for as much as two years— but CRTs are so last century nowadays, notwithstanding the fact that, frankly, a 28″ telly is too big for our compact living room. Also, Virgin Media are installing V+ for us a week on Tuesday so HD is worth considering (not that Virgin carry a lot of HD content).
Expressing an interest in renting a flat-panel TV, we were told that it might be worth buying one. As it happens, we could buy a 26″ Samsung HDTV, with the same service contract as we get at the moment by renting, for nine pounds a month less than we currently pay. It rather seems silly not to. We get to keep the video recorder (no surprises there) and the DVD recorder costs us the princely sum of one British quid.
