[Closed] What do people do with old TVs that still work?

Charity?

British Heart Foundation take electrical items at some stores.

Take 'em to the local [s]tip[/s] Waste Transfer Station and they will be recycled. Literally 100's at my local place waiting to go. Tried shifting a few of mine on Freecycle and couldn't even give them away there.......

Freecycle. I got rid of one about three years ago that way. It took all of about 20 mins and I was inundated with requests for days later. A charity shop is another option.

freecycle or gumtree? Some charity shops will take them but most don't like taking electrical goods.
There are bound to be loads more people like me that just can't be bothered with fancy new TV's can quite happy with ones from the past especially if they cost nothing or next to nothing!

A TV that works - old-fashioned or not - has surely got to be worth something, no?

We have the old kind, because (1) I'm tight and (2) our six-year-old is a ball of chaos and chucks himself about our living room like an Atherton. Not even he can whopple it over. Safety first, I always say!

I gave mine away to relatives.

The best TV giveaway that I saw was at Stan's Barbers Shop in Prestwich. They had a crappy old B/W set and a customer walked in and handed over a much better one.

Does your barber have a crap tele?

Make it into a novelty fish tank?

freecycle for me

Still using mine.

Might have to get a freeview box later this month when Calderdale bursts forth into the 1990's and goes digital.

We're getting Channel 5 you know.
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Might have to get a freeview box later this month when Calderdale bursts forth into the 1990's.

You don't even have Freeview??? 😯

Freecycle, eBay?

Heavens above, we are still using a retro Sony CRT 32" widescreen TV with one of those new fangled freeview recorder boxes.

Nope.

BBC 1 & 2, ITV & Channel 4, but that's a bit 'snowy'.

More interested in getting DAB to be honest, love listening to Radio 4 Extra when I get the chance.

My Sony 28" is doing sterling service at my parents providing grandchild supervision duties in the corner of a sitting room. The integral glass front cover keeps out little fingers nicely. Running Wii, DVD, Video and a Sony Freeview box.

The picture is still outstanding, 10 years on.

People leave them in the rubbish room of our block to be used by me.

Where in Calderdale are you Rusty? In Elland we never used to be able to get Ch5 but I put that down to Elland being about 50 years behind the rest of the civilised world. Get all normal telly and all freeview channels in Halifax but we are at the top of a hill.

In response to the OP, we watch ours. Its great.

(we are planning on getting an tinterweb enabled flat screen HD jobbie thing at some point in the near future).

Nope.
BBC 1 & 2, ITV & Channel 4, but that's a bit 'snowy'.

But but but... you could pick up a new freeview box for £14.
Why would you not?
Or are you just in some obscure area that can't get it?

More interested in getting DAB to be honest, love listening to Radio 4 Extra when I get the chance.

You realise that freeview would give you DAB, including 4 Extra, through your telly?

Thanks all - I just have too many TVs and there's little worth watching anyhow - so just going to keep the best one and ditch the rest - tried charity shops and they won't take them. Friends and relatives not interested and eBay is a faff. Will try freecycle next

im supposed to be writing an assignment right now on electrical waste, it would appear that when they get put for recycling they generally just get sent to the developing world and dumped on them. not good.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9483000/9483148.stm
- this course is making me depressed

tried charity shops and they won't take them

[url= http://www.bhf.org.uk/shop/donating-goods.aspx ]British Heart Foundation[/url]

You realise that freeview would give you DAB, including 4 Extra, through your telly?

no - it is better than DAB I think you will find - better bitrates for a start on most things.

But but but... you could pick up a new freeview box for £14.
Why would you not?
Or are you just in some obscure area that can't get it?

Where in Calderdale are you Rusty?

Todmorden.
We're getting Freeview/DAB tomorrow.
It's very exciting.

Seem to remember a certain bike designer, who lives not a mile from me, posting a couple of years ago and wondering why his shiny new Freeview boxes didn't work. 😀

You realise that freeview would give you DAB, including 4 Extra, through your telly?

Yes, but I can't take the telly into the bathroom to listen to 'The Archers' when I'm having a bath.

Didn't realise you needed "alone time" with The Archers.

Emma Grundy or Fallon? 😉

Ooooooh, Fallon every time. 😀
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Although I do have a soft spot for the delightful Kirsty:
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And Zofia's accent is very pleasant to wake up to on a Sunday morning.

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Todmorden.

Ah. That explains it then. Elland = 50 years behind the rest of the civilised world. Todmorden = not even close to joining the civilised world 😉

chuck em off the top floor of a multi story car park?

Who, Fallon?
You've not heard her voice have you?

It makes me come over all unnecessary, honestly it does.

Have a listen, you know you want to.

Free-cycled mine. Some students turned up and planned taking it home on a bus, it was a massive heavy thing. good luck to them.

Todmorden - ha even Bacup has free view (although as it's a repeater signal it's a little limited although you do still get Gay Rabbit, or so I'm told). Luckily we live on a hill above Bacup and can just about see the winter hill transmitter so we can get Dave Deja Vue as well......

In my case - set it up on a table in the front room and watch it. Its retro chic, honest.

Thanks for the BHF tip Graham

chuck em off the top floor of a multi story car park?

I put an old CRT in the skip at the council dump. It was on the pub wall within a week*

* Yes it is a crap pub.

If you just leave it outside your house with a note saying [i]"FREE - Help Yourself"[/i] then no one will touch it.

But if you change the note to read [i]"FOR SALE: £100 ono. enquire within"[/i] then it'll be gone within an hour.

😀

Stack em up high and wide, switch them all on, relax in a leather chair stroking a white cat, whilst watching the tv's and laugh wildly . . .

The other thing to try is if you live somewhere that has an art college near by, I bet there will be a student that will be looking for TV's for an art project...Bit of an odd one and possibly not that helpful if you live no where near an art college but worth a try.

I couldn't get CH5 in Bingley until I got a new telly with built in freeview. I thought Dave Ja View didn't exist anymore? It's been 'closed' on my Freeview for a few weeks now, do I need to retune or something?.

Charity shops have to have an electrical safety certificate for every electrical item they sell.
I think the going rate is £15 a time, so unless they've got a volunteer qualified electrician doing it for free, it's not economical for them to sell most electrical goods.

I think the going rate is £15 a time,

Took two Sonys down to the recycling depot a few months ago - tried giving them away but no-body was interested.

I palmed mine off onto a mate.

There's apparently a healthy market in retro computing circles for them.

We still watch telly on it....