When I started out on my own, color TV's were about a quarter of the price of a cheap new car. Not too many people had color TV's back in the early 70's.
2007-02-26 17:20:19 · 42 answers · asked by OOGLY 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Gee, and you did not mention those huge consoles that had those little-bitty b&w screen in it ... with those dials, TUBES to change, no remotes, rabbit ears and huge hunks of metal that you had to mount on your roofline and climb up there whenever a blast of wind came by to correct the direction so that you could receive the very few channels that were available .....
2007-02-26 17:27:17 · answer #1 · answered by sglmom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our first TV was in the early 1950s. It was a huge console black & white with a small picture tube.
Within a few years, when color television was showing up in the homes of the wealthy, those of us who weren't had another option. We could buy a plastic sheet that went over the TV screen. The upper third of the sheet was tinted blue. The middle third was tinted green. The lower third was reddish brown.
If you happened to be watching an outdoor scene with sky in the upper part of the frame and grass or trees in the middle and something contrasting below those, you could almost kid yourself into thinking you had a color television. Of course if you were looking at a closeup of a person with blue hair, a green face and rust colored neck and shoulders, the effect didn't work as well.
2007-02-26 17:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Color TV
2007-02-26 17:24:12 · answer #3 · answered by ♥♥Bree♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Color
2007-02-26 17:22:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When there were only B&W technology, China was very poor, nobody in my country had TV then. When everyone bought TV in the 80's in China, there was no more B&W, every TV was a color TV, so we jumped from radio era to color TV era, skipping B&W. I don't know what a B&W TV looks like actually.
2007-02-26 17:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by Gone 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't see my first color television until late 1974 when I was 12-years-old, until then it had been a 13 inch B & W and we thought that big color console was a miracle! (All 20 inches of it's screen! LOL) Just as we thought it was amazing to have a telephone number that was nothing but numbers and you didn't need an operator to place every call, far out!
2007-02-26 17:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by Daydream Believer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Color TV. But I have yet to jump on the flat-screen Plasma TV bandwagon. Maybe when the price comes down...
2007-02-27 03:44:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jay (cynical) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Black and white t.v.. Fist color show I saw was Bonanza. T.V. had ' Rabbit Ears ' antennas . . . had to get up off the couch to change the channel and the t.v. went off the air at about 1:00 in the morning and didn't come back on till about 5 or 6:00 in the morning. When t.v. went off air at 1:00 a.m. they played the natural anthem you saw a big flag waving and then this weird test pattern would appear on the screen with emitting this high pitch sound...maybe to encourage you to turn off your t.v. I celebrated my 50th this past year and I like having these memories with seeing how the world evolved with music, technology, space program, phones, ovens etc. Fun to experience to see.
2007-02-26 17:25:35 · answer #8 · answered by onelight 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first color television belonged to my parents. It was manufactured from Montgomery Wards. It was big, made of wood, and had fabric speakers. When that one died, my parents bought a Sony Technicolor Television. They purchased HBO as cable at the time in the early 80's, and that was when MTV was all music videos, commercial free, no talk shows, commentaries, or contests.
2007-02-26 17:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by Agent319.007 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
color TV
2007-02-26 17:22:39 · answer #10 · answered by Steph 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋