13,000 people in the UK Still Watch TV Black and white

The world of technology has changed rapidly in recent decades. Many countries also began to switch from analog to digital TV technology, marked the end of an era completely manual.

However, in the midst of modernization and digitalization, there are still a lot of users ancient technology, one black-and-white TV dalah atai monochrome. Moreover, tens of thousands of TV viewers are from the UK, one of the most advanced countries in Europe.

The BBC reported this week, according to data from the UK TV Licensing Authority, there are more than 13,000 people who watched it on television were rare.

London is a city with a black and white tv owner ever, reaching 2715 people, followed by Birmingham and Manchester. In total, there are 13,202 black-and-white TV viewers in the UK.

According to the regulations in the UK, the owners of TV types are also having to pay licensing each year. But it is much cheaper than a color TV. Monochrome TV license must pay a 49 pounds (Rp768 thousand), while the color TV 145 pounds (Rp2, 2 million).

"It was shocking at a time when the transition to digital TV is completed, with 41 per cent of UK households have HDTV and the country is among the forefront of accessing TV on the internet, there are 13,000 people still use black-and-white TV," said a spokesman Licensing Authority British TV, Stephen Farmer.

According to historian John Trenouth television and radio, the owners of ancient tv, mostly from low-income families who want to save money. "But there is still a minority of people who choose a black-and-white TV, do not want to throw it away or collect them," said Trenouth.