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Fifty Years of Color Television

Posted by michael on from the get-off-the-couch dept.

peter303 writes "The Houston Chronicle notes that color TVs were first manufactured on March 25, 1954 at a price of $1000 (about $4000 in today's dollars). Some of the older folk here remember the excitement of your first neighbors acquiring one of these in the 1960s and as the TV series one-by-one switched to color. Ironically, for such a high tech nation, there hasn't been a major quality improvement in TV broadcast images for a half-century until the 2006 changeover to HDTV."

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  1. Re:1669 hours... a perspective by GlassUser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And people wonder why I don't watch teevee at all.

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  2. Re:1669 hours... a perspective by eln · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You're right, they should be spending that time on more worthwhile pursuits, like trolling Slashdot.

    Why is it that every time we have an article even remotely related to TV, we get the same people complaining that Americans watch too much TV, and oh yah, they don't even OWN a TV, so must therefore be superior human beings in every way?

  3. Re:1669 hours... a perspective by thestarz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What do you think they should be doing instead? Reading and posting on /. like you? Yes, that's a much better use of their time...

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  4. Re:1669 hours... a perspective by GlassUser · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't either. That's why I don't watch it.

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