Granada's TV Rental Stuff

[Larry the Loafer]

Ah the days when technology was built to be repaired and last a lot longer than it is thesedays. Obsolete just wasn't a word used often for your TV set.

It's easy to forget that, after colour sets were introduced, there was no real chance of a set being rented deemed obsolete until into the 2000s when digital and HD were becoming the norm. Sure, you had niceties like Teletext and wide-screen that would made you want to upgrade, as would the jump in technology from CRT sets, but you're looking at about a 40-50 year gap where your TV didn't "need" upgrading.