When "color" TV was a big deal???

Yes….my parents first one was rented which meant free repairs.
Just as well as the TV repair man almost became part of the family.He was around so often.
They got more reliable…my own first one worked for 23 years.

Snooker became more interesting on a colour TV.😅
 

My dad always had to be the first on the block with anything new that he thought was going to be popular. I remember when I was 10 y/o, we got our first color TV. That would have been around 1963. We weren’t the first on the block, but we were only one of a few that had a color TV. It was a Sylvania.

My dad also had to have the best looking lawn on the street. I still remember the time we got grubs in our left portion of the front yard. He cut out the whole area and replanted it with new top soil and Scott seed. We watered the area day and night for a month until we had beautiful grass again.
 
My first color TV was when I bought it in the late 60's and my little daughter watched Walt Disney with glee. The TV had problems with the picture and turned out not to be a good choice.
 
Our 1st was a B&W in 1953. Howdy Doody (sp) was playing when I came home from school. We coulda fried eggs on the top at the end of the 1st week.
 
I think we got ours around 1969. My dad wanted to watch the Texas Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl so we had to get one. I find it ironic now that after all the giant flat screen TVs, unless I am watching a program with someone else, I stream most of my television viewing on my laptop computer.
 
After moving on from Saturday morning cartoons during elementary school, television was never a "Big Thing" for me and, for what I watched, black & white was just fine. But then . . . fast forward . . .

We had been married for five or six years. Our old 17" b&w set more than met our needs. Then one day a Sears van drove up in front of our home and the driver delivered our new 19" color set. WHAT??? It turned out that my mother (bless her heart) just couldn't stand the fact that her son and DIL didn't have a color TV so she had taken action. :rolleyes:

These days we still don't watch a lot of television. Cut the cable years ago. And we still like to stream some of the old b&w movies and TV shows. :D
 
Furryanimal said:
Yes….my parents first one was rented which meant free repairs.
Just as well as the TV repair man almost became part of the family.He was around so often.
They got more reliable…my own first one worked for 23 years.

Snooker became more interesting on a colour TV.😅
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there was a TV snooker commentator.. Ted Lowe .. I'm sure you remember him, Furry... and he famously said ....'for those of you watching in Black & White, the pink ball is just behind the green ! :ROFLMAO:
 
Before color TV came out, I used to wonder about it, but it was like an impossible fantasy. When it did come out, I was surprised because it was a fantasy that becomes real, but I never had one until the mid 70s. It seems like I remember some funky problems the first ones had. Or am I just remembering that wrong?

I remember and not too long ago, just before the flat screens came out, I saw a couple of attempts at huge screen TVs, probably in the neighborhood of 50 inches or so, but they were clunky and almost unwatchable during day time because of reflection annoyance. They were absurdly expensive for such mediocre quality, and they were bulkier than a typical chest of drawers. It was like having an ATM in your living room, and everything else was arranged around it.
 
My aunt was one of the first to buy a color TV. I remember going over to see it. The picture was wasn't that sharp, and everything was more pastel, but people had this strange orange/violet color. In the early days of color TV, nobody could get the color of people right.
 

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