Can You Recall When Your Family Or You Got A Color TV?

Ferocious said:
Oh, yes, I remember it like it was yesterday, it wasn't much fun though, 'cause while the family sat and watched, I had to stand at the side of the TV....................and turn the handle. 😊
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A good reason to have kids. I was my dad's remote channel changer.
 

Don't remember the first color TV we got... but do recall the ugly box of a TV that was black and white back in 1949.
something like this ..
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can't remember when we got color TV. we were far from rich, but first to get one. aunt/uncle/cousins and grandparents would come over to watch. i remember the TV needed to be set up... guy swirling this magic ring-thing that set up the colors. closest to a remote was a cord that ran from back of set. after grandparents got color tv, their set needed adjusting all the time. no matter how many times Nana was told to NOT fiddle with the knobs, people always had odd colored faces. she would find someone to look pale and wanted to put color in their cheeks!
 
wcwbf said:
can't remember when we got color TV. we were far from rich, but first to get one. aunt/uncle/cousins and grandparents would come over to watch. i remember the TV needed to be set up... guy swirling this magic ring-thing that set up the colors. closest to a remote was a cord that ran from back of set. after grandparents got color tv, their set needed adjusting all the time. no matter how many times Nana was told to NOT fiddle with the knobs, people always had odd colored faces. she would find someone to look pale and wanted to put color in their cheeks!
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We had a gigantic console television, and the manual selection knob was really loud, so anytime mom had it set for us kids to a certain channel, if we changed the channel, she'd hear us messing around with the selector know and holler, "quit playing with the TV".

Well, kids are no dummies, and after much experimenting with, I found if I pushed the knob in firmly and then turned, I could pull off a channel change absolutely silently, so no longer was I tied to watching whatever mom had selected for us, and so it seems, mom was none the wiser. :)
 
1984-- Bought it myself. Picked it out with my wife--then girlfriend. I think my Dad got one in the very late '70's it was a hand-me-down from a friend of his when he got a new set.

Growing up it was strictly B&W. We had a 1956 RCA that had some sort of voltage converter between the plug end and receptacle that caught fire during an episode of the Twilight Zone. I don't remember what set came after that, but I know my Dad didn't have to replace tubes in it like he'd have to do a couple of times a year with that console RCA.
 
a few slightly OT comments on TV in general.

when UHF channels appeared, lowest number was 3 and highest was 48. WE were dad's "remote". if he said change channel, one of us got up and physically changed channel. you'd really hear it if you tried to go from 3 to 48 at warp speed.

i remember dad having a box of TUBES for when old B&W acted up. he'd take the back off and randomly start swapping out bulbs he knew were new till something fixed the problem. never turned TV off before working on TV.
 
wcwbf said:
a few slightly OT comments on TV in general.

when UHF channels appeared, lowest number was 3 and highest was 48. WE were dad's "remote". if he said change channel, one of us got up and physically changed channel. you'd really hear it if you tried to go from 3 to 48 at warp speed.

i remember dad having a box of TUBES for when old B&W acted up. he'd take the back off and randomly start swapping out bulbs he knew were new till something fixed the problem. never turned TV off before working on TV.
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Your post sure does bring back warm memories for me.

The large wooden console television I speak of had both UHF and VHF (?... think that's what it was). Anyhow, I do remember experimenting, turning the selector knob back and forth between the two, yet I cannot remember the outcome.

At the time we had all of about 4 or 5 channels to choose from.
 

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