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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:Feline Poop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. 50 YEARS OF TEH SPOKE!!!1~` by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  3. anul secks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    'cause if you doo a search...this dosent come up!!!

    YO TO TEH GNAA!!

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

    I don't have a TV!

  5. WARNING: LIBERTARIAN TROLL ON THE LOOSE by ANTIMITHURO · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    1. Re:WARNING: LIBERTARIAN TROLL ON THE LOOSE by ANTIMITHURO · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      (Score:0, Offtopic)
      His mod army is at work!

  6. 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.

    --
    I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
  7. WELCOME BACK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    When you stop posting for a few days it feels like the entire world is on hold.

    At least to your stalkers, it does...