Do you remember renting a telly?

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We did as students and when we got out first jobs. It was a bit more to rent a video too, for those weekend trips to Blockbuster.

Never had one of the ones that was coin operated, but we definitely paid for it by standing order or direct debit back in the day.

My parents rented TVs from Radio Rentals so we always had whatever was the newest model. I still remember the day we got the colour TV delivered.

When we got married we rented from Rumbelows for years. I don't remember when we first bought a TV but they were so expensive that most people just rented.

My mum still has a key meter for electric it started as 50p and just progressed.

We rented on and off but I remember one year we decided to rent after our old TV broke completely . The idea was to get a nice new one in time for Christmas and this was the cheapest way to do it.
O frabjous day😁 when the van turned up and the first box he brought in was a massive hamper of treats . The new TV was forgotten !

Fil used to be the tele man, he’d go round and set it up for people, he’d often leave them with a colour tv ‘to try for a week’ and when he went back the following week they didn’t want to give it back so he got the extra commission.

he also rented one to Jimmy Saville 😳

We rented a TV, a washing machine and a piano as students in 2003, so it was still a thing then.

My grandad was a TV repair man, which was a job that existed because of rental televisions. Shame it doesn't exist now and people just throw them away.

We rented one in the early 90s in our first home, a tiny one to sit on the shelf.

The MIL eventually gave us an old one of hers and I called up to cancel it and arrange a return and they said keep it, no one wants an ancient portable TV it and you have paid for it many times over. Madness

I felt like a right mug!

My mum used to rent one when I was a child and she'd up graded it every couple of years 😂

We did in the 80s and a video player, video players were a bit prone to going wrong anyway. My parents rented a TV in the 60s to 80s

We kept our rental TV and Video in the end when we finally cancelled the contract.

Yes we did from Granada.

I even remember their TV ad of Rent Granada.

My parents didn't buy a TV until they retired they got money from a retirement party and we took them to curry's to.pick it.

My parents rented our TV from Visionhire until we moved house in 1986. We bought a telly and video then. We were promptly burgled and the tv and video was nicked.

With the Visionhire to we're had a very early version of cable tv which had about 6 films, including Watership Down, Gregory's Girl and The Godfather.

No, born in the 70's. Had a colour TV and normal electric meter, no coins. We used to rent a video player for birthdays until we finally bought one in the late 80's.

Lots of my friends rented their tellies though so I know it was a big thing.

I remember as a child in the 80's and even in the 90's there were TV rental shops in the shopping mall.

My parents always bought a TV new. I was jealous because I had friends whose parents rented TVs and always seemed to get new ones every so often, whereas ours were kept for what seemed to be years and years!

Yes, we did about then when it came out, the dish was massive and we sometimes had to adjust it a bit, I think we had satellite TV before BskyB even as we had a even more massive dish in the back garden which I think we had to point at a satellite not in the UK, I don't think there was much on it though, maybe some sports or MTV

My parents rented one from Granada for quite a few years

Yes from Radio Rentals, I remember the first one we got with a remote control that was wired to the TV on a long wire, then we got a video too. When I moved out of home, I rented one from Radio Rentals. I have never had Sky as a child or an adult, or subscribed to any streaming channel either, I watch very little TV, not because I am poncy but because I don't fancy the shite DH watches

In 1972 my mum and dad won a tele! To celebrate a shop opening in Chester (maybe Rumbelows). We have a photo somewhere from the newspaper - dad has bell bottoms, mum has massive hair and it’s probably the last time I wore an above the knee dress! I was 3.

I remember renting from radio rentals once that one broke

My parents rented from Radio Rentals for years.
I never had a TV as a student or renting afterwards. But I think when I bought my first place in the mid-90s I must have rented one then.

My father used to have a TV with a coin box on it (mid 90's). I seem to remember £1 gave you around 8 hours of TV.

He also found a way to rig said box so kept on putting the same coin in again and again and again.

We must have rented one for years because the one we kept in the end was a widescreen telly, I think it was 28" screen, very heavy with a huge back, I think widescreen was in the 90s and 00s

Yes and ours took 50ps. The tv man actually saved my life when 5yr old me decided to try practise sliding down the banister from the top/3rd floor. 5 fractures to my skull and 2 heart failures! He had a broken collar bone and black eye. Literally broke my fall which would have been fatal.

We rented one when I was a kid. There was always money to be given back once rent had been taken out. We must have watched loads of TV😁

I'll wager you were a 70s kid..we had no fear 👍
You were very lucky.