Speaking of 23" B&W Sets...

[dr.ido]

I can't find the thread now, but I seem to be remember one of the Italian posters (tritwi?) saying that B&W sets latest longer over there than perhaps anywhere else. That 23" B&W sets were common well into the 80s with some having digital tuning and remotes while retaining a hybrid tube chassis. If anyone has pictures of such a set I'd like to see them.

The latest I've personally seen would have been a batch of early 80s 23" B&W monitors that I found in the early 90s that came from a race track where they were used to display race results from a videotext based system, but they don't really count as they didn't have tuners.

I once read on a British forum that one of the TV rental firms there had a number of customers that refused to pay the increased license charges for color sets. When it was no longer practical to maintain the existing B&W sets they had to supply color sets with the disabled chroma decoders. I wonder if a cheaper B&W TV license still exists and if any are still on the books today.