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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. Hey you insensitive clod.... by caino59 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't have a TV!

  2. Gold by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is because Johnson, and then Nixon, gave the American taxpayer's wealth to the rest of the world, first raising the value of gold to $35 an ounce, then finally removing the hard-link all together. Why? To magically make poorer countries wealthier.
    The US has bled down the value of its dollar, it doesn't "just" depreciate.

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