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charles wrote:
The UK 405-line system was almost certainly kept going for far longer
than it really needed to be. There was probably only a handful of
people who could not receive the 625-line service. At the time, I
recall that many of us said that it would be cheaper simply to buy
that last little old lady, living in a remote valley in the middle of
nowhere, a new TV set and aerial.

unless the aerial had a 100+m cable attached it wouldn't be any use if
she really lived in a remote valley in the middle of nowhere. uhf
coverage was not universal - and still isn't.

I remember in the '50s, some villages in the Scottish Highlands paid for a
shared receiver aerial to be situated on a nearby hill.

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