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In 1980 the family rented a video recorder, I remember it was £20 a month rental :eek:
You can more or less buy a DVD player for that now on Amazon.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
You don't half spout some rubbish StevieJ.0
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Maybe one of the new questions mortgage providers should ask new customers is whether they can understand basic maths and finance principles, such as working out simple percentages.
It's around 17%.
OH THERES ALLWAYS ONE!!! i just couldnt be bothered to work it out go blow a trumpet up ur but will ya
why do u nd ti have a dig for somthing so pointless!!!!
hack ME right offfff"Lifes a climb - but the view up in fantastic"
Gina Shoe Challange - £150 14 days - day1 £3.010 -
shellnapier wrote: »OH THERES ALLWAYS ONE!!!
Actually, there are loads of us on here.0 -
In 1980 the family rented a video recorder, I remember it was £20 a month rental :eek:
You can more or less buy a DVD player for that now on Amazon.
Thats great.
But again you are not comparing like with like. You are comparing the height of technology in those days, with the basic (well, redundant) technology of these days.
You'd be better comparing a video recorder back in 1980 with todays blu ray dvd recorder.
Both are at the height of new technology. A blu ray dvd recorded will be standard in 10 years time, if something else hasn't taken it over. The thing that takes it over, will, again, be damn expensive.
Really don't see the point in comparing a video recorder with how much it costs today and saying it was worse then. There will always be expensive new technology.0 -
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Roughly 45% - 50% for us. i say roughly because my OH's wage fluctuates.
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what a dafty, thats what i get for posting late at night. ours is about 30% - 35% i got my sums stupidly wrong.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Thats great.
But again you are not comparing like with like. You are comparing the height of technology in those days, with the basic (well, redundant) technology of these days.
You'd be better comparing a video recorder back in 1980 with todays blu ray dvd recorder.
Both are at the height of new technology. A blu ray dvd recorded will be standard in 10 years time, if something else hasn't taken it over. The thing that takes it over, will, again, be damn expensive.
Really don't see the point in comparing a video recorder with how much it costs today and saying it was worse then. There will always be expensive new technology.
You can buy a decent Panasonic blu ray player for £250 "what hi-fi" best budget buy - usually where we look when we want to buy something like that.
Consumer goods especially electrical/electronic are cheaper today, in real terms than they have ever been.
If you bought a dvd player and it broke after a couple of years - would you have it repaired or replace it? In 1987 we would have had a video recorder repaired, because it was a lot cheaper than replacing it. Now we would just replace it.
Unless you are going for absolute top of the range stuff most white goods and the like are no longer major purchases for most people. Unless I'm living in a parallel universe.0 -
You don't half spout some rubbish StevieJ.
Thank you for the well thought out contribution :T'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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