ABSTRACT
I think when we did attempt to watch Laurence Olivier’s King Lear we watched that at a fairly fast pace [laugh] edited high-lights [laugh]. (Caroline) All the households in the sample had access to a VCR. About two-thirds had purchased a machine, the rest paid a monthly rental. Although there were rented machines in each of the categories, they tended, predictably, to cluster in the lower-income group, where only one machine had been purchased. Over half the households had owned or rented a VCR for more than two years at the time of the interviews. With the exception of two women all my respondents were interviewed at home and in all those cases the VCR was installed in the main living-room of the house along with the colour television. Similarly, over half the sample had a second television, usually a portable black and white set kept in the kitchen or the bedroom.
