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Great! I was oh I don't know how old because you provided us with this amazing historical moment without providing a clue as to WHEN this historical moment happened!😑
As AI images and videos become more prevalent, no one will know if they can believe what they see. Sounds more like a nightmare than cause for excitement.
@@DavidLS1 For TV engineers it's always been chew on a cigar while chain smoking cigs and packing a tobacco pipe all the while main lining a pot of coffee.
As a millennial with boomer parents, I always loved hearing their stories about what television was like when they were growing up. This comment section is like an extension of that, and it fills me with warmth to read everyone's personal stories. Thank you all for sharing!
We had a black and white tv in our basement in the eighties, us kids would watch it if our parents were watching the news or Star Trek on the color tv. I remember it had a dial on it for the channels, there were maybe nine choices to turn to, but we only got 6 channels, I would watch the channel I called “busy ants”… it was static.
@@drewt1081 my parents are boomers and I’m a millennial. I don’t think it’s that uncommon. Both my mom and her mom were in their late 30s when they started having kids and had more into their 40s.
I'm 62 (youch) I remember our first color tv. A Zenith console. (a big jump from the 13" B/W) We were all standing around as he plugged it in then pulled out the knob. There she was, the first thing I saw, in her yellow and purple jumpsuit- Emma Peel. My heart went through my chest. I was a 6 year old boy. I'll never forget it..
Im mid 40s but I remember having 13 inch B&W as the family T.V. until I was in my teens. It was crazy when we switched. I actually had cable before color lol.
@@chuckhouse5179 I had my Mother wake me at 11:30 pm, Creature Double feature, to watch Frankenstein on our 13" B&W..I would hide behind the chair when he first appeared. Now I have him tattooed on my arm.. LOL..
As a kid, I was so disappointed when I read in the TV guild that Bonanza was going to be broadcast in color, but when it came on it was still in black and white. I didn't know back then that you needed a color TV set. Damm!
this happened to my Grandma too. she was calling it a hoax 😂 same woman who bought a radio before emigrating to USA so she could listen to the news from back home. 😊
@@RobertJ-vo4bk I remember that You got charged for every minute that's funny The even had a commercial about it that said please say who is calling and the guy said we had a baby it's a boy
My grandfather bought a color TV. The whole family traveled to his house that night to watch Bonanza in color. Wow -- beautiful scenery -- a great memory.
I lived through that transition, and it was glorious. Everything in B&W my entire life, then came home from school one day to see our new TV. It was amazing. Every show brought a new experience. I explicitly remember the brilliance of cartoons and hockey games.
When we got our first color set (1963) my brother and would watch Saturday morning cartoons with the color level cranked up to seizure inducing levels. It was glorious plus it kind of set the stage for the rest of our 1960s coming of age experience.
I remember my tv from the 90s was sort of like that, it looked like a dresser but was completely a tv, even if you open the drawers that's where the volume and channel knobs were
Color TV 1954 Stereo TV 1984 Surround sound 1987 Digital sound 1998-99 HD TV 2009 My how things have changed, but we still don't have flying cars like the Jetsons.
I understand. When I was a kid ANY TV was an attraction in the early 50's. I saw my first BW TV in 1950. Now days I sometimes watch an old BW movie on TV. A good movie is still entertaining.
And it wasn't even accurate color. People were purple or green. Color TVs had to be "installed" in a home in the spot it was going to stay in, as any movement screwed with the color. My father wouldn't buy a color TV until the 1970s and color was a lot more accurate.
I was just remembering the very same! We didn’t know the owners of the colour tv but it didn’t matter, everyone gathered round to watch! The first thing I saw was a vase of flowers and all the colours were blurred. I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about!
...and when you finally get the rabbit ears just right for football, do not touch them ON PAIN OF DEATH!!! I don't care if you have to bend double and duck under them to get out of the room, do not mess up the TV!!!
Using pliers when the knob broke, Sometimes when the set would blank out, we could just jump in a certain spot, on the floor in front of the TV, and it would come back on 😂
After cutting the cord I still do that with my HD antenna...not the hitting the set , but having to fine tune the position, height etc. Some things never change.
@jeffanderson3962 I remember getting fairly decent reception on a coat hanger, and a stick, when we moved from one place to another and hadn't put up an antenna yet, I learned it from my one cousin and her husband at the time, Those were the days
This makes Star Trek even more insanely awesome when you think about the fact that it was around the same time that we first got color TVs, meanwhile the show had transporters, data pads, automatic translators. In fact many of the tech devices we have today took their names directly from that show. Truly visionary.
My son asked me once, "Mom, what was it like before there was color?" I replied, "What do you mean bud?" He said, "Before there was color. When everything was black and white. I saw a t.v. show from before there was color." 😂😂Poor little fella, with all of his little heart, thought the WORLD was in black and white! I miss those days. I still watch old shows that are in black and white, and you know what? Maybe he was on to something. The world did seem to be in "black & white". There was good and bad. Moral and immoral. Back then, things were simpler in a way, but we never mistook evil for good. We knew damn well what a woman was, and Daddy's were a part of their kids lives.
The world back then was just as evil as it is now, it's just that the villains were younger back then, better at coverings their tracks. It was easier to get away with atrocities because there were fewer people who'd hear about it. Nowadays somebody so much as sneezes out of place and it's going on the internet, eternally catalogued. But back then? I mean that's why all the famous serial killers are from older times, that era allowed them to reign as long as they did, and even allowed others to go free. Now killers get off on technicalities and loopholes, or become they know somebody. But all these advancements haven't deterred them. No, they're still around. They'll always be around.
Something Gen Z and later may not know: In those days TV wasn't just displayed with cathode ray tubes, the TV image itself was also *captured* using cathode ray tubes as well. Think of the huge image orthicon cameras used for Apollo (immys --> Emmys!), then the fist-sized vidicon sensors that followed before solid-state sensors made all that obsolete
I remember every year The Wizard Of Oz would be broadcast on network tv, and it was a big deal in our neighborhood. Everyone would be home watching it. And, legend had it that the Kansas parts of it were in black and white, but the Oz part was in color. We thought that was amazing, and then watched the whole thing in black and white.
I was 7 years old in 1966 when Dad got us a color TV. It was like that scene in The Wizzard of Oz when Dorothy stepped out of her house into the land of Oz and the world of color. Batman and Lost in Space looked so good. It was like magic
We got our in '68 when I was 8. Just when I didn't think Star Trek could get any better, I saw it in color! Batman, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel were all that more amazing.
How come I can't remember when TV became color? I was young teenager in the early sixties. I remember watching the Beatles, but can't remember a big commotion about color? Well my dad was a "techie" so maybe he had already switched us over before I was old enough to care. Maybe around 1961 when I was 9. No, that's too early. I just don't know.
I so identify with Lost in Space and Batman. Lost in Space was the first show I saw on Colour TV and Batman was my favourite show at the time (along with the Thunderbirds) seeing Joker for the first time in colour blew my mind.
Just a few years apart. The Beatles first three albums, released in 1963-64 were in mono. Stereo was around a bit bit earlier but became the norm only around 1965. Regular color TV broadcasts started in 1967. Even in the mid 1970s, quite a few people still had black and white TVs.
meanwhile most young people don’t know what is stereo, because they use mono bluetooth speakers or just their phones, and if they listen with their headphones they listen to mono pop music
No, it's different. Difference between B&W and RGB can be seen all of the time. Difference between stereo and mono sound, hovewer, not so much. You need to have headphones on to even hear it but even then most of the things have sound about as mono, so you also need to get lucky broadcast to hear the difference. I myself learned what stereo sound is at about 14.
@@appletvaccount1364 Come on, I don’t like generic pop either but those sound engineers aren’t as shitty as the compositions they mix. Also, a lot of phones work in stereo now and at least half of all the BT speakers are stereo too
Our first color TV was put together by me; a Heath Kit color TV! Of course, I had done other small radios and black & white TV's but the Heath Kit was a lot of fun, and educational! And the color was SENSATIONAL! Wish I had it now!
I was in 3d grade when my best friend's family got a color TV. I got invited over after school and watched Gilligan's Island with my friend. I remember going home afterwards and telling my Mom that the Skipper had a blue shirt and Gilligan wore a red shirt! I was amazed!
We got our first color TV in 68 when I was 17. The first program we watch was a preview of the upcoming Winter Olympics. It felt like we entered the modern age.
Terry Gilliam said he grew up in Minnesota or Wisconsin and used an outhouse... someone in the comments could not believe that type of thing ever existed........ I didn't want to tell her about the Sears catalog... now staple free!
@@user-wm3bf7pi3u My grandparents still had an outhouse at their place in rural England in the 90s. They had a proper, flushing toilet as well by then but it was still used while working out in the fields rather than coming back into the house. I think it probably was at some point in the 60s when they got an indoor toilet, when my mum was still a kid. Didn't get a fridge until my mum was in her teens, used to have a meat safe or meat locker instead. I forget which, I was only born in the late 80s so I've never seen such a thing in real life. I have used an outhouse however, and I'm not even 40 yet! Used to have "chambers pots" or piss pots as I called them under the bed to use at night so you didn't wake others by flushing the loo. Probably seems kinda weird in 2024, but hey, times change. Even if that was only about 30 years ago..... Not so long ago I saw a video of a couple of kids, maybe 10 or a bit older amazed at a relatively modern landline telephone. Genuinely excited to play with this still functional archaic piece of technology. They'd never seen one before and to them a phone that wasn't a portable rectangular screen was practically magic from the dark ages. We still had a rotary telephone when I was a kid lol, seeing that thing probably would have blown their minds.
We had one by 1970,when I was 5. Me and my little sis were watching the Saturday and Sunday morning programmes on it,things like Thunderbirds,The Persuaders,Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased),and some of the lunchtime and late afternoon children's programming on the weekdays. .
Back then it wasn’t important, culturally. My parents had a color TV in the spare room in the basement, while my grandparents still had a b&w TV in the salon, which we kids weren’t supposed to be in anyways. People would watch TV like once a week to watch race cars or ski downhill, or when a new movie came out. Maybe once a week for 1-2 hours, if at all.
Couldn't they have picked a better scene for this momentous occasion instead of an old guy in black and white business attire sitting in front of a dull blue wall?!
I was 10 years old in 1964 and walking past the stores in a strip shopping center in Texas. As I walked past a laundromat I stopped dead in my tracks! Back then laundromats had lounge areas where ladies could relax on soft sodas and easy chairs, while reading magazines or watching TV. I stopped suddenly, because there in that lounge area was the very first color TV I had ever seen! I eased in the doorway and looked around. Nobody noticed me as there were other children inside playing already. I went into the lounge area and sat in a big empty easy chair to marvel at the new sights my eyes were taking in! A movie had just started, "The Killer Shrews" and I watched the whole thing. It was kind of corny, because you could easily tell they had made up some dogs to look like "monster shrews," but I was more engulfed in the color commercials that I had only seen previously in black and white! Imagine Kodak camera commercials or "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" in black and white! My family was poor (but I didn't know it), so it wasn't until 1969 that my dad bought our first color TV! It didn't matter that it was used, IT WAS A COLOR TV! Now with 4K starting to be standard, I find myself watching old B&W movies on YT and remembering how it was "back in the good old days!"
What an amazing experience honestly. It's super fascinating to me that the comment section here has become a hub for people from this time or around that era to share their stories, it's like getting to glimpse into a little piece of previously-unknown history! Thanks for sharing with us!
Sometime around 1969 I came home from school, came up the stairs, walked past my parents' room and also also stopped - they had just put a color TV in the room, the first we ever had. About 5 years later, I got my own small TV as a Christmas present. It was black and white of course, a portable, with about a 12" diagonal screen. I didn't have a color set of my own until I finished college - it was my graduation present. Again, a 12" or so portable. No remote of course.
1969 is not bad for your first colour TV, especially as a "poor" family. I lived in communist Romania and first colour program for me was the World Cup final in 1986. My grandfather managed to buy the first colour TV in our family in 1987 (it was a long list to wait for it) and my parents got one in 1988 and also a VHS player that year. Very hard to get. Beginning with 1990 after the communist regime failes we started to get modern elecronics in our stores (Sony, Panasonic and so on).
When I was a kid in the 1950's, the bars and taverns were the first to get all the innovations. First air conditioning, first color TV. Both drew in the customers.
People may like it or not, but as far back as VHS tapes I was reading that pornography has usually been the earliest adopter of new visual media. 8mm, VHS, CD, DVD, and on. I think they were right. Well, that's what I heard! :)
I remember as a kid, the first time color TV impacted our neighborhood... it was when the "Charlie Brown Christmas" special aired in 1965! Eveybody we knew had B & W sets, because the cost of a color console TV was very expensive. But our neighbors across the street from us, the Weibe's purchased one at Sear's! We were invited, along with about 25+ adults and eager kids to crowd into their living room for the big event! When the first few minutes of the show started... there were screams, squeals and other noises from eveybody... it made a huge impact! After it was over, all the kids began asking their parents for a color TV! In time, my parents bought a RCA console color TV... and we were hooked! Great memories 🤗
As a little kid in the 1960s my single parent mother had a black and white 9 x 11 tv that ran on vacuum tubes! It took about 3 minutes for the screen to power on after the set was switched on and every few weeks I'd be tasked with taking a bad tube to the test tube testing machine at the local grocery store when the picture went out! I knew nothing better and loved it! But when my grandparents got their big 25 x 25 color tv in a big console with a big speaker, I was in heaven! My brother and I would go to their place on the weekends and watch Jackie Gleason on Miami Beach, Get Smart, the Flying Nun, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Batman, the Ed Sullivan show, Red Skelton, Larado, Gun Smoke, Bonanza, Johnny Quest, the Monkeys, and Saturday morning cartoons like Space Ghost and Scooby Doo! Oh, those were the days! And all on 3 national channels (ABC, CBS, NBC)plus a single local independent Channel in downtown Portland Oregon, KPTV Ch 12 with the Ramblin Rod and Rusty Nails kids shows! Oh and don't forget Hobo Kelly! Life was good!
I remember the Drug store tube testers. TV had a little schematic inside that said what each tube was for. If I had vertical hold issues, I just pulled the tube associated with that circuit. If the tube tested bad, I got a new one from the drawers below the tester. The chart tells you what settings to set on the dials of the tester by the type of tube (tube part number) under test. Holding a button tested the tube, with a needle pointing to good GREEN or BAD red or somewhere in between if the tube was weak. Good times and no 11-year-olds (myself) were actually harmed!
@@wilsonle61 I took TV tubes to Thrifty Drug Store many times and tested and replaced the bad ones. New tubes could cost several dollars but it was cheaper than a repairman.
@@wilsonle61Same here! You hit it right on the head! I learned, much later in life when I actually learned about radio's and TV's, that the tubes took the brunt of the blame for TV failures. Most of the time it was those soldered in parts that really were going bad, but a new tube forced the set to work again.
We didn't get a color TV until 1978. I just found out a few years ago when watching UFO on a streaming channel that the Moonbase women had purple hair.
As a boomer, I loved reading many of the comments here. I can relate to nearly all of them! I remember when my grand parents (we couldn't afford a color set) got their RCA "roundie" in '62. We'd drive 2 miles in city traffic on a Sunday eve to watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color. It wasn't till around 1973 when my dad found a 12" Sony color TV at a garage sale. That was our FIRST color set! LOL.
@@michaelmcenery7515Same here! My dad got us a color TV in 1976, only because our old black and white set broke down repeatedly. It was a rental from a UK-based company called Granada (that was in Canada).
@@ultrasometimes8908 My father had an old one in the late 80s, he said he'll use it until it breaks.... well, he used it seldom, as he mostly worked abroad, so it lasted forever. I remember sometimes going to his place (he lived in another city) and watching the b&w tv just because I could. I know I watched it as late as 1991/92 (my girlfriend thought this was very odd). I think it still worked when he sold the house in the mid-90s. The reception was terrible, as the indoor antenna - some cables and a stick - also was quite homemade.... it was more of a principle for my father to have the old tv as long as it worked. If it functions, keep it. I don't think my father ever actually has systematically watched any tv in his whole life, except a certain nature program on Saturdays (it's been on air for 40+ years). ....and nowadays he almost only watches UA-cam on his tablet, thinks internet is great (he's turns 83 this summer).
That is so, so cool. I'm sure up to then the black and white/monocast was completely the norm and nobody else until then had any idea the difference that it would make. That truly must have been a turning point in your life as well as history itself. Amazing the things we take for granted nowadays since we just live with them and don't know any better.
Wow, you know you're getting old when you remember B&W TV, rotary phones, crank-down car windows, high/low beam switches on the floor of cars, etc. And newscasters with a sense of humility...
I vividly remember the first time I watched a colored tv show at our neighbors house. It was Bonanza and my Equestrian heart, ( Before I ever got my first horse)... was in total awe! I loved Lil Joes horse. And today I ride black and white. Thanks for the memory!❤
I remember as a kid, the Tuckers next door got a color TV, way back in the 60s. All the neighborhood kids were absolutely mesmerized when they hosted a "Wizard Of Oz" party for us. Especially that hideous green witch! LOL!
First thing I ever saw in colour on a TV was part of Star Trek TOS episode 'Arena' in a department store in Manchester, England, in the very early 1970's. It blew my mind along with 100 or so others crowded around a 22" set. Been a massive fan ever since! I was aged about 12.
So I have a theory about the reason the costumes and so on were done the way they were. The early color sets had issues. One of them was the way the electron guns were laid out and the masking on the screen. Colors were not all that vivid and differences between close colors were hard to notice. So in that set and in those costumes, Roddenberry chose as close to standard "color wheel" pure colors as he could get in order to make the best presentation on the early sets. As a side effect, it gave the show a very particular feel and a particular atmosphere that has come to define the series. Now, this is just my speculation and I have no idea if it is true or not, but Roddenberry was no slouch so it would not surprise me at all if this turned out to be fact.
Early-adopters of colour TV in my English town all seemed to have the saturation turned up way high, so that faces were all bright orange. I suppose they wanted to feel they were getting their money's worth.
This moment is so under rated. Almost, if not all screens on EVERYTHING in the entire world are in color today. Also, Great job bringing more attention to this great event.
Both of my grandpa's were some of the first in their neighborhoods to have a color TV, now my only living grandpa has a giant 85 inch flat screen. He say's that's the best thing he ever got .. well beside my grandma.
My granny was such a huge technophobe, her brain would turn off if you said "digital switchover". We just got her a TV that "takes up less room" and "has more channels" one Christmas.
@@vulcan2882 I always get the same stupid response when I correct someone's grammar. instead of admitting you are wrong, it's always the same. do you know why I CHOSE not to start the sentence with a capital letter? Because it's internet and it's cumbersome, the correct characters are in their place. You however constructed a completely meaningless sentence by the atrocious use of the apostrophes. The difference here is I know how to write, you don't
I remember feeling a little jealous when we had friends with the tinted plastic sheet draped over the screen to give the illusion of color. The top was blue, the middle had a reddish tint and the bottom had green. They thought that they were all that in a bag of chips.
Even by the mid-1970s in the US, with color TVs still very pricey, many cash-strapped college students were still using B&W TV sets in their dorm rooms or apartments. I was one of the few that had a color TV, as it was a hand-me-down from my parents. Color TV was highly coveted at that time by my fellow students in the dorm, as one girl wanted to get chummy with me so she could watch the "Donny & Marie [Osmond]" TV show in color, as she only had a B&W TV set.
I remember the first time I saw color TV. I was eight or nine. A friend of my dads got one (he might have been my dad's boss!) He invited a lot of people over. At 8:00 he turned on the TV and we saw the NBC peacock. It opened its feathers in B&W, then closed them, then opened them again in color. Everyone in the room gasped! It was like the most amazing thing we ever saw! It'd be another decade before WE had color TV. I still remember the show we watched--The Price is Right with Bill Cullen.
Yeah, as dumb as that sounds. It would be a good laugh in a movie about the 50s. But it was more sucking air in than breathing it out. Everyone just breathed in a little, really fast, like they were startled or shocked. We'd seen that old peacock a million times on our B&W TVs and he'd never done that before!
Yeah, my 84 year old mum is still shocked that her entire VHS collection (across two cardboard boxes) would likely all fit on something smaller than a cigarette lighter.
@squaredcircle1111 Not if you want a no compromise Full HD to UHD image. Streaming comes with its compression and automatic throttling, depending on server load. Local hardware was always the perfect media.
Growing up my father was a television repair man . One day in the late 60s when i was a kid he brought home a color television all my friends came to my house to watch it .Great memories.
Some time in the mid-60s, living in south Jersey, I remember my dad brought home a 25" color TV, I was maybe 10. It was rather uninteresting when first turned on because most shows were B&W but later that night, 8:00pm on NBC, the rainbow color peacock came on the screen announcing "The following program is brought to you in living color" with that famous jingle! A moment forever etched in my mind!
Remember the summer we got our first color tv..it was either a 10” or 12”, I was 7-8 years old, and it had the standard rabbit ears and on a little roller cart to move from room to room..Daddy was so excited, and he and I definitely enjoyed our favorite shows together even more!!! Miss you Dad❤️❤️❤️
We got our colour TV when I was around 8, which was around 1965. It was a big valve set, but I can't remember the make. This is in the UK and the first thing we saw on it was Trooping the Colour. It was fantastic, all those red jackets. We used to get the Radio and TV Times back then and used to check to see what programmes were in colour.
I grew up in Iowa City and I sure picked up quick that there was something verrrrry familiar about the men in the picture and Bob! Rare gem, and to catch it just on random UA-cam surfing late at night. Nice job, thanks!
We got our first color TV around 1973. I can still remember looking in the back of the black and white TV and seeing all of the tubes flowing. They could really squeal too. You could cook a chicken on top of the cabinet. The tubes put out an amazing amount of heat.
This is station WMT in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Color capability came to the networks in the early to mid 1960's. Only a handful of shows were shown in color, and it didn't go mainstream until the early 1960's. Even then, it was the late 1960's before virtually all programs were broadcast in color. Because color sets were so expensive, not many viewers had them. It would be the mid 1970's before mass-production caused the proliferation of color sets across America.
I'm not old enough to remember when color TV was new, but I am old enough to remember black and white TVs. My parents had a small B&W TV in their bedroom that became my bedroom TV in the 80s when they got a color TV. It was small but it had a clear picture was a lot better than no TV at all! A good quality B&W TV would generally have a sharper image than a color TV, until HD came along.
Your family was very well off to have more than one TV. We only had one black and white TV the whole time I was growing up, even after I finished college. BTW, my parents didn't give me one dime toward college. I took care of it myself with scholarships, grants, and loans. I finished only owing $3,000.
We had older 13" B&W TV that eventually became my TV monitor for my Commodore 64 until I got the Commodore monitor. I had my parents older 19" color as my bedroom TV. In retrospect I guess I could have hooked the Commodore to that.
On UK tv snooker (a sort of Pool game) was bought alive with colour tv. Once a commentator remarked, for those of you watching in black & white, the green ball is behind the red !!
Only in Britain! 📺🇬🇧😁 Never watched the snooker much, but based on my experiences with the B&W portable we had I imagine the green ball must've given a lot of B&W viewers some „Trick shot“ experiences... 😉 (After all: Green balls on green baize don't show up well in low-contrast analogue television... 😋)
I can imagine how crazy cool this must of felt at the time. Like watching Wizard of Oz for the first time when it goes from black and white and into technicolor.
When my parents bought a color TV in the early 60s, the only programs broadcasting in color was Meet the Press, the Met Opera, and Diver Dan. Disney, Bonanza, and Bullwinkle came later.
Was a small boy when TV first came to my city; watching color TV go from pastel to vibrant; watching the first "live remote" broadcast sent from Europe all the way to my television on the US west coast; and watching the first moon landing "Live." Those were major events compared to today's obsession with "influencers" who have not, and will never accomplish anything for humankind.
My grandparents on my dads side bought dad a color Tv in '64 for an xmas present. Very few programs were in color back then so when you found something in color you of course watched it instead of something that wasn't. I find it relatable that a lot of the comments refer to the Wizard of Oz as a show they had to watch after getting their color set. Same in our household... the station that was going to have it on even went out of their way to let you know it would be broadcast in color... we had to see those shoes turn to a ruby red color... that was when the program went to color mode if I recall!
I remember when we got our first color TV in 1971, we could only get one channel and a rerun of Gilligan's island was on. Of course, it was a black and white episode. We had to wait for a commercial to see anything in color!
I remember the day sometime in the early 70s when TV Guide stopped putting a notation next to programs that are in color and started saying "all programs are in color unless designated by 'BW'".
For those wondering, the color in black and white looks slightly sharper. Can't say much more because it doesn't show much. There may be a greater black and white range because of the color camera though.
Color TV changed how Americans dressed. TV shows were showing off with color TV. Characters wore bright, vibrant colors. American fashions changed with them. Look at shows from the early days of color TV and you can really see the impact on a black and white world.
I remember going to my uncle's house about 1968 to see The Wizard of Oz on his color set. They spent the first fifteen minutes of the show fiddling with the controls and wondering why it wasn't coming in color😂 I also remember how much more terrifying Star Trek was in color, especially the last shot in the closing credits of Balok's puppet alterego". Every episode I was compelled to watch it in anticipation but would always have to quickly cover my eyes🤪
Oh, that's a fun anecdote. If you watched Star Trek on a black and white set and then had to get used to colour, I'm interested what you thought of the look of the show? I've only ever watched Star Trek in colour, and it seems strange to imagine it in black and white, but I bet it took some adjusting the other way 'round, too!
I grew up with a rotary dial b&w 19-inch TV with rabbit ears, ghosts, lines, double images, rolling images with 3 networks & PBS. In 1979, my young wife and I saved up and bought ourselves a massive cable-ready 25-inch color TV with remote! A few years later we bought a 32-inch color TV and we subscribed to CATV. We were amazed at all the choices and crisp images. When we bought our first VCR, we were giddy with excitement because we no longer had to schedule our lives around the set program hours of our favorite TV shows and reruns.
And now, with a PVR, I rarely watch anything live. I'll either use ChasePlay to watch it about 15 minutes behind live so I can skip the adverts or, more often, I'll just see what's available when I'm in the mood to watch TV. I've set SeriesLink for all the programs I'm interested in, so for most of them I don't even know which days they're on any more; there's almost bound to be something recorded I want to watch.
@@sunnymane I definitely did. I was doing DVR back in the 80's. I had two VCR's with 8 event recording. I had a huge stack of tapes and a system for watching them properly without recording over anything important. That was the life. I still have those VCR tapes somewhere.
The first color television that my father (may God have mercy on him) bought for us was in 1977. We had color transmission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1976, and our joy was indescribable with the color television, and it was of the Sharp brand.
I was a TV director at BBC 2 when it started broadcasting in colour in 1967. Though for some time beforehand we had been shooting on colour film ready for the switch over. And in 1964 or 65 i was working on a magazine show where we did an item demonstrating a colour camera and monitor. Of course the show was in black and white and nobody at home could see the color. You couldn't make it up.
Our family still watches TV on the Old 1950 Radiation King. We don't see any need to replace it or upgrade! /sarc. Actually I don't watch TV anymore. Nothing but Big Pharma Ads, "Bad Drug Ads right after the Big Pharma ads of course", & bad gov't propaganda.
I remember going to to the drug store with my Dad when I was a kid to buy tubes for the TV there was a machine and you dialed in the tube type and pushed a button and the replacement tube came out then you went and paid. We would then go home and the TV would be working again. Now I throw the entire TV away when it doesn't work.
@@dalethelander3781 Great question. I fear it may be permanent, though. But perhaps if tRump and MAGA finally went away, that might help. Ban TikTok and dating apps...I'd be a bit more gruntled. We get some more funding to Ukraine to help them beat russia back over their border, putin falls out a window, Roe v. Wade restored, SCOTUS gets a refresh, Citizens United overturned, and my ex wife falls off a cliff and dies on impact...I'd definitely be gruntled again! 😂😇 Cheers!
I continue to get antenna TV and many of the great quality TV programs are in black in white on my 40” hi tec big screen . Westerns and George Burns don’t need to be in color . If i get in the future $4000 Apple Vision Pro I assume youtube will continue broadcast in original black and white 😁
I remember watching Star Wars on a black and white TV once. It was still fine to watch. They did a good job of picking the colors, someone must have kept that in mind.
My dad was the 1st color TV tech in the state of Florida. I was born in 1956, and my father had a 1955 RCA color TV set (he used it as a test bed too). I grew up watching color shows come on the air Neighbor kids had no idea some of their favorite shows were in color until they saw them on our TV set!
Apparently, when colour TV started in the UK, one of my grandfathers waited all evening to see it, but he didn't have a colour TV - he expected colour on his old B&W tv! Before then, my mothers first time watching ANY TV... As kids, her and her brother were one day taken to some rich persons house at the top of a hill, with a big antenna, to see some live coverage of the London Olympics... Her first experience of TV was seeing her father (my other grandfather) performing in the Olympic games!
This moment was captured on April 14 1967!
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First iPhone launch(crowds reaction on touchscreen) :
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Cringe ai shit ip😂
Great! I was oh I don't know how old because you provided us with this amazing historical moment without providing a clue as to WHEN this historical moment happened!😑
As AI images and videos become more prevalent, no one will know if they can believe what they see. Sounds more like a nightmare than cause for excitement.
I was exactly 18 months old when this occurred! Now I’m watching this on a smartphone! It’s crazy how far technology has come in less than 60 years!!
the humble one was better than the colorful ones
Meanwhile, at home, nobody had a color tv so it was still in black and white.
Rich insiders
It will never catch on anyway
We certainly still had a black and white set.
We always had 2 TVs in the living room. One for picture....the other for sound. Whoever was closest operated the rabbit ears.
I remember trying to guess the colors of Starsky and Hutch's muscle car. I guessed blue and yellow. Turns out it was red and white.
and somewhere in the background, the chief engineer is breathing a huge sigh of relief that it didn't go sour. 😄
especially when that momentary sync lock up happened!
This was the 60's it was a puff of smoke.
@@user-wm3bf7pi3uLots of puffs of smoke by the end of the 60's.
@@DavidLS1 For TV engineers it's always been chew on a cigar while chain smoking cigs and packing a tobacco pipe all the while main lining a pot of coffee.
@@user-wm3bf7pi3uNot the kind of smoke I was talking about. Think Woodstock and hippies. :)
As a millennial with boomer parents, I always loved hearing their stories about what television was like when they were growing up. This comment section is like an extension of that, and it fills me with warmth to read everyone's personal stories. Thank you all for sharing!
We had a black and white tv in our basement in the eighties, us kids would watch it if our parents were watching the news or Star Trek on the color tv. I remember it had a dial on it for the channels, there were maybe nine choices to turn to, but we only got 6 channels, I would watch the channel I called “busy ants”… it was static.
So your parents were born before 1965? The "baby boom" was directly following WWII. I'm gonna guess that your parents are gen X, not boomers.
@@drewt1081 my parents are boomers and I’m a millennial. I don’t think it’s that uncommon. Both my mom and her mom were in their late 30s when they started having kids and had more into their 40s.
@@drewt1081 My dad was born at the end of the 50s and my mom was born at the beginning of the 60s, so yes, they're baby boomers.
@@drewt1081I’m a millennial with boomer parents
I'm 62 (youch) I remember our first color tv.
A Zenith console. (a big jump from the 13" B/W)
We were all standing around as he plugged it in then pulled out the knob.
There she was, the first thing I saw, in her yellow and purple jumpsuit- Emma Peel.
My heart went through my chest.
I was a 6 year old boy. I'll never forget it..
Loved the Avengers!
This comment is pure Americana
@@yann664
That face and wit are timeless..
Im mid 40s but I remember having 13 inch B&W as the family T.V. until I was in my teens. It was crazy when we switched. I actually had cable before color lol.
@@chuckhouse5179
I had my Mother wake me at 11:30 pm, Creature Double feature, to watch Frankenstein on our 13" B&W..I would hide behind the chair when he first appeared. Now I have him tattooed on my arm.. LOL..
As a kid, I was so disappointed when I read in the TV guild that Bonanza was going to be broadcast in color, but when it came on it was still in black and white. I didn't know back then that you needed a color TV set. Damm!
this happened to my Grandma too. she was calling it a hoax 😂
same woman who bought a radio before emigrating to USA so she could listen to the news from back home. 😊
Just like when people didn't know you had to pay for caller ID when it first came out
@nomusicrc And pay for texts. Imagine having to pay for each text today, the national debt would hit a quadrillion! 😂
@@RobertJ-vo4bk I remember that You got charged for every minute that's funny The even had a commercial about it that said please say who is calling and the guy said we had a baby it's a boy
My grandfather bought a color TV. The whole family traveled to his house that night to watch Bonanza in color. Wow -- beautiful scenery -- a great memory.
Colour television will never catch on.
Nor will that crazy "rock and roll".
@@mchume65 All long hairs are freaks.
They're both fads.
…or smartphones.
The future is in plastics
I lived through that transition, and it was glorious. Everything in B&W my entire life, then came home from school one day to see our new TV. It was amazing. Every show brought a new experience. I explicitly remember the brilliance of cartoons and hockey games.
Tahts 1967...what year was Pornography introduced ?
When we got our first color set (1963) my brother and would watch Saturday morning cartoons with the color level cranked up to seizure inducing levels. It was glorious plus it kind of set the stage for the rest of our 1960s coming of age experience.
I remember when the TV's were built into furniture cabinets
They were like that until the 90's, so ur not that old
Don’t they build them into walls now?
Still have one of those hunk of craps, so heavy its a burden to get rid of
Now they are built into your fridge. 🤣
I remember my tv from the 90s was sort of like that, it looked like a dresser but was completely a tv, even if you open the drawers that's where the volume and channel knobs were
I love hearing the humility of that reporter, it is an attribute sorely missed in our modern era.
Here, here, FlyGuy.
Not really
Amen. It is a professionalism that has died. Died along with journalism itself.
@@elmoreglidingclub3030 wdym?!
Agreed.
0:52 Bro the transition to color was so quick it seemed like an everyday thing rather than a revolutionary change.
We didn't get a color TV until about 1971 or 72, and it was still working when I sold my dad's house in 2018.
Color TV 1954
Stereo TV 1984
Surround sound 1987
Digital sound 1998-99
HD TV 2009
My how things have changed, but we still don't have flying cars like the Jetsons.
I remember when I was a kid and the first people in the neighborhood got a color TV the whole neighborhood went over to see it.
Now we have tvs that feel like they send you to another Dimension. The vibrant color and Hd. How ppl have come so far.
I understand. When I was a kid ANY TV was an attraction in the early 50's.
I saw my first BW TV in 1950.
Now days I sometimes watch an old BW movie on TV. A good movie is still entertaining.
And it wasn't even accurate color. People were purple or green. Color TVs had to be "installed" in a home in the spot it was going to stay in, as any movement screwed with the color. My father wouldn't buy a color TV until the 1970s and color was a lot more accurate.
I was just remembering the very same! We didn’t know the owners of the colour tv but it didn’t matter, everyone gathered round to watch! The first thing I saw was a vase of flowers and all the colours were blurred. I couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about!
Man, stuff like that doesn't happen anymore. New stuff is coming out so often that it's almost boring.
Remember adjusting the rabbit ears, whacking the set, and getting up to turn channels. Good times.
...and when you finally get the rabbit ears just right for football, do not touch them ON PAIN OF DEATH!!! I don't care if you have to bend double and duck under them to get out of the room, do not mess up the TV!!!
Using pliers when the knob broke,
Sometimes when the set would blank out, we could just jump in a certain spot, on the floor in front of the TV, and it would come back on 😂
After cutting the cord I still do that with my HD antenna...not the hitting the set , but having to fine tune the position, height etc. Some things never change.
@jeffanderson3962 I remember getting fairly decent reception on a coat hanger, and a stick, when we moved from one place to another and hadn't put up an antenna yet, I learned it from my one cousin and her husband at the time,
Those were the days
@@crazyburkey3677 Aluminum foil for the win
This makes Star Trek even more insanely awesome when you think about the fact that it was around the same time that we first got color TVs, meanwhile the show had transporters, data pads, automatic translators. In fact many of the tech devices we have today took their names directly from that show. Truly visionary.
My son asked me once, "Mom, what was it like before there was color?" I replied, "What do you mean bud?" He said, "Before there was color. When everything was black and white. I saw a t.v. show from before there was color." 😂😂Poor little fella, with all of his little heart, thought the WORLD was in black and white! I miss those days. I still watch old shows that are in black and white, and you know what? Maybe he was on to something. The world did seem to be in "black & white". There was good and bad. Moral and immoral. Back then, things were simpler in a way, but we never mistook evil for good. We knew damn well what a woman was, and Daddy's were a part of their kids lives.
The world back then was just as evil as it is now, it's just that the villains were younger back then, better at coverings their tracks. It was easier to get away with atrocities because there were fewer people who'd hear about it. Nowadays somebody so much as sneezes out of place and it's going on the internet, eternally catalogued. But back then? I mean that's why all the famous serial killers are from older times, that era allowed them to reign as long as they did, and even allowed others to go free. Now killers get off on technicalities and loopholes, or become they know somebody. But all these advancements haven't deterred them. No, they're still around. They'll always be around.
Bro dropped the best pun in the universe
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I SCREAMED
there are much more colorful characters around here than this reporter. lol
I thought you meant "are you all SET, Bob?", since he switches sets 😂
S tier Gent Joke with certified Knee-Slappage factors
I will never forget my dear mum shouting quick come watch they are switching to colour and nothing happened bless her
Great story lol!! ❤
Aww lol ❤
That's so sweet ✝️❤
Something Gen Z and later may not know: In those days TV wasn't just displayed with cathode ray tubes, the TV image itself was also *captured* using cathode ray tubes as well. Think of the huge image orthicon cameras used for Apollo (immys --> Emmys!), then the fist-sized vidicon sensors that followed before solid-state sensors made all that obsolete
they will not understand a word of this
& nobody cares.😒
@@gregoryhagen8801 Clearly 26 people cared and not a single person liked your comment.
What did you say boomer?
@@Miodrag.Vukomanovic Go back to Russia.
I remember every year The Wizard Of Oz would be broadcast on network tv, and it was a big deal in our neighborhood. Everyone would be home watching it. And, legend had it that the Kansas parts of it were in black and white, but the Oz part was in color. We thought that was amazing, and then watched the whole thing in black and white.
I was 7 years old in 1966 when Dad got us a color TV. It was like that scene in The Wizzard of Oz when Dorothy stepped out of her house into the land of Oz and the world of color. Batman and Lost in Space looked so good. It was like magic
We got our in '68 when I was 8. Just when I didn't think Star Trek could get any better, I saw it in color! Batman, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel were all that more amazing.
For us, it was watching Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
How come I can't remember when TV became color? I was young teenager in the early sixties. I remember watching the Beatles, but can't remember a big commotion about color? Well my dad was a "techie" so maybe he had already switched us over before I was old enough to care. Maybe around 1961 when I was 9. No, that's too early. I just don't know.
@@marysketch4772Well, it _was_ the sixties.Maybe you were to stoned to notice?
I so identify with Lost in Space and Batman. Lost in Space was the first show I saw on Colour TV and Batman was my favourite show at the time (along with the Thunderbirds) seeing Joker for the first time in colour blew my mind.
Going from B&W to color must've been like going from mono to stereo back in the day.
Just a few years apart. The Beatles first three albums, released in 1963-64 were in mono. Stereo was around a bit bit earlier but became the norm only around 1965. Regular color TV broadcasts started in 1967. Even in the mid 1970s, quite a few people still had black and white TVs.
meanwhile most young people don’t know what is stereo, because they use mono bluetooth speakers or just their phones, and if they listen with their headphones they listen to mono pop music
@appletvaccaount1364 The best way to know if you're listening to stereo (and that it works properly) is to play Bohemian Rhapsody
No, it's different.
Difference between B&W and RGB can be seen all of the time. Difference between stereo and mono sound, hovewer, not so much. You need to have headphones on to even hear it but even then most of the things have sound about as mono, so you also need to get lucky broadcast to hear the difference. I myself learned what stereo sound is at about 14.
@@appletvaccount1364 Come on, I don’t like generic pop either but those sound engineers aren’t as shitty as the compositions they mix. Also, a lot of phones work in stereo now and at least half of all the BT speakers are stereo too
I remember watching this live on TV. I was 2 months old lying on the carpet struggling to voice my excitement for what this means for the future.
Our first color TV was put together by me; a Heath Kit color TV! Of course, I had done other small radios and black & white TV's but the Heath Kit was a lot of fun, and educational! And the color was SENSATIONAL! Wish I had it now!
Heard someone’s grandad returned his TV because it was showing colour and he thought there was something wrong with it.
Well that's stupid you'd think in those times they'd want to see colors on tv
If it was the 60s they probably didn’t like seeing colours
@@redbakery8943😂😂😂😂
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@@kenedwards5626 no actually, that’s just the british way of spelling ;)
I was in 3d grade when my best friend's family got a color TV. I got invited over after school and watched Gilligan's Island with my friend. I remember going home afterwards and telling my Mom that the Skipper had a blue shirt and Gilligan wore a red shirt! I was amazed!
That must have been between the fall of 1966 to early 68.About 4%-5%of Americans had a color set back then.
Aw that's cute
You never noticed what Ginger and MaryAnn were wearing?
That is so true. I had always thought that Gilligan's Shirt was Dark Green while watching it in Black and White.
Ahhh simpler times.
A breakthrough fr. I can imagine the shock and happiness by the people then.
thats so cool that they were also able to also stream it live on UA-cam.
We got our first color TV in 68 when I was 17. The first program we watch was a preview of the upcoming Winter Olympics. It felt like we entered the modern age.
Terry Gilliam said he grew up in Minnesota or Wisconsin and used an outhouse... someone in the comments could not believe that type of thing ever existed........
I didn't want to tell her about the Sears catalog... now staple free!
@@user-wm3bf7pi3u My grandparents still had an outhouse at their place in rural England in the 90s. They had a proper, flushing toilet as well by then but it was still used while working out in the fields rather than coming back into the house. I think it probably was at some point in the 60s when they got an indoor toilet, when my mum was still a kid. Didn't get a fridge until my mum was in her teens, used to have a meat safe or meat locker instead. I forget which, I was only born in the late 80s so I've never seen such a thing in real life. I have used an outhouse however, and I'm not even 40 yet! Used to have "chambers pots" or piss pots as I called them under the bed to use at night so you didn't wake others by flushing the loo.
Probably seems kinda weird in 2024, but hey, times change. Even if that was only about 30 years ago..... Not so long ago I saw a video of a couple of kids, maybe 10 or a bit older amazed at a relatively modern landline telephone. Genuinely excited to play with this still functional archaic piece of technology. They'd never seen one before and to them a phone that wasn't a portable rectangular screen was practically magic from the dark ages. We still had a rotary telephone when I was a kid lol, seeing that thing probably would have blown their minds.
For me, it was Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
My family didn't switch to color TV till the 1980s!
We had one by 1970,when I was 5. Me and my little sis were watching the Saturday and Sunday morning programmes on it,things like Thunderbirds,The Persuaders,Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased),and some of the lunchtime and late afternoon children's programming on the weekdays.
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Man I'm old, i remember the switch over to color and it was mind blowing.
same here !
Back then it wasn’t important, culturally. My parents had a color TV in the spare room in the basement, while my grandparents still had a b&w TV in the salon, which we kids weren’t supposed to be in anyways. People would watch TV like once a week to watch race cars or ski downhill, or when a new movie came out. Maybe once a week for 1-2 hours, if at all.
Id figured people woulda been screaming
Couldn't they have picked a better scene for this momentous occasion instead of an old guy in black and white business attire sitting in front of a dull blue wall?!
i bet back then, that exact moment, some people said " i prefered black & white" just because they were used to it
I was 10 years old in 1964 and walking past the stores in a strip shopping center in Texas. As I walked past a laundromat I stopped dead in my tracks! Back then laundromats had lounge areas where ladies could relax on soft sodas and easy chairs, while reading magazines or watching TV. I stopped suddenly, because there in that lounge area was the very first color TV I had ever seen! I eased in the doorway and looked around. Nobody noticed me as there were other children inside playing already. I went into the lounge area and sat in a big empty easy chair to marvel at the new sights my eyes were taking in! A movie had just started, "The Killer Shrews" and I watched the whole thing. It was kind of corny, because you could easily tell they had made up some dogs to look like "monster shrews," but I was more engulfed in the color commercials that I had only seen previously in black and white! Imagine Kodak camera commercials or "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" in black and white! My family was poor (but I didn't know it), so it wasn't until 1969 that my dad bought our first color TV! It didn't matter that it was used, IT WAS A COLOR TV! Now with 4K starting to be standard, I find myself watching old B&W movies on YT and remembering how it was "back in the good old days!"
What an amazing experience honestly. It's super fascinating to me that the comment section here has become a hub for people from this time or around that era to share their stories, it's like getting to glimpse into a little piece of previously-unknown history!
Thanks for sharing with us!
yeah. it's very intriguing for me to see stories out of the 60s.@@cosmocatte4213
Lol...killer shrews was one of the best MST3K episodes. God that movie was terrible!
Sometime around 1969 I came home from school, came up the stairs, walked past my parents' room and also also stopped - they had just put a color TV in the room, the first we ever had. About 5 years later, I got my own small TV as a Christmas present. It was black and white of course, a portable, with about a 12" diagonal screen. I didn't have a color set of my own until I finished college - it was my graduation present. Again, a 12" or so portable. No remote of course.
1969 is not bad for your first colour TV, especially as a "poor" family. I lived in communist Romania and first colour program for me was the World Cup final in 1986. My grandfather managed to buy the first colour TV in our family in 1987 (it was a long list to wait for it) and my parents got one in 1988 and also a VHS player that year. Very hard to get. Beginning with 1990 after the communist regime failes we started to get modern elecronics in our stores (Sony, Panasonic and so on).
When I was a kid in the 1950's, the bars and taverns were the first to get all the innovations. First air conditioning, first color TV. Both drew in the customers.
hahahaha. Gotta love it! ! ! ! !!
People may like it or not, but as far back as VHS tapes I was reading that pornography has usually been the earliest adopter of new visual media. 8mm, VHS, CD, DVD, and on. I think they were right. Well, that's what I heard! :)
Kinda like how when flat screen HDTVs became a big thing in the early 2000's. Bars would advertise it on their signs.
I remember as a kid, the first time color TV impacted our neighborhood... it was when the
"Charlie Brown Christmas" special aired in 1965!
Eveybody we knew had B & W sets, because the cost of a color console TV was very expensive.
But our neighbors across the street from us, the Weibe's purchased one at Sear's!
We were invited, along with about 25+ adults and eager kids to crowd into their living room for the big event!
When the first few minutes of the show started... there were screams, squeals and other noises from eveybody... it made a huge impact!
After it was over, all the kids began asking their parents for a color TV!
In time, my parents bought a RCA console color TV... and we were hooked!
Great memories 🤗
We didn't get colour until the 70s in Australia
As a little kid in the 1960s my single parent mother had a black and white 9 x 11 tv that ran on vacuum tubes! It took about 3 minutes for the screen to power on after the set was switched on and every few weeks I'd be tasked with taking a bad tube to the test tube testing machine at the local grocery store when the picture went out! I knew nothing better and loved it! But when my grandparents got their big 25 x 25 color tv in a big console with a big speaker, I was in heaven! My brother and I would go to their place on the weekends and watch Jackie Gleason on Miami Beach, Get Smart, the Flying Nun, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Batman, the Ed Sullivan show, Red Skelton, Larado, Gun Smoke, Bonanza, Johnny Quest, the Monkeys, and Saturday morning cartoons like Space Ghost and Scooby Doo! Oh, those were the days! And all on 3 national channels (ABC, CBS, NBC)plus a single local independent Channel in downtown Portland Oregon, KPTV Ch 12 with the Ramblin Rod and Rusty Nails kids shows! Oh and don't forget Hobo Kelly! Life was good!
I remember the Drug store tube testers. TV had a little schematic inside that said what each tube was for. If I had vertical hold issues, I just pulled the tube associated with that circuit. If the tube tested bad, I got a new one from the drawers below the tester. The chart tells you what settings to set on the dials of the tester by the type of tube (tube part number) under test. Holding a button tested the tube, with a needle pointing to good GREEN or BAD red or somewhere in between if the tube was weak. Good times and no 11-year-olds (myself) were actually harmed!
And all with no subscription!👍🏻
@@wilsonle61 I have a tube tester, and tubes. My dad worked on TV's in the 70's.
@@wilsonle61 I took TV tubes to Thrifty Drug Store many times and tested and replaced the bad ones. New tubes could cost several dollars but it was cheaper than a repairman.
@@wilsonle61Same here! You hit it right on the head! I learned, much later in life when I actually learned about radio's and TV's, that the tubes took the brunt of the blame for TV failures. Most of the time it was those soldered in parts that really were going bad, but a new tube forced the set to work again.
We didn't get a color TV until 1978. I just found out a few years ago when watching UFO on a streaming channel that the Moonbase women had purple hair.
Strange. I have always heard that the first colour TV broadcast in the USA took place in 1953! Only in Sweden we switched to colour in 1967 -68.
As a boomer, I loved reading many of the comments here. I can relate to nearly all of them! I remember when my grand parents (we couldn't afford a color set) got their RCA "roundie" in '62. We'd drive 2 miles in city traffic on a Sunday eve to watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color. It wasn't till around 1973 when my dad found a 12" Sony color TV at a garage sale. That was our FIRST color set! LOL.
we didnt get our first color set till 1976! man those were the days we lived in a much better world than we do today
@@michaelmcenery7515Same here! My dad got us a color TV in 1976, only because our old black and white set broke down repeatedly. It was a rental from a UK-based company called Granada (that was in Canada).
Black and white mini tvs were produced right into the 80s
@@ultrasometimes8908 My father had an old one in the late 80s, he said he'll use it until it breaks.... well, he used it seldom, as he mostly worked abroad, so it lasted forever. I remember sometimes going to his place (he lived in another city) and watching the b&w tv just because I could. I know I watched it as late as 1991/92 (my girlfriend thought this was very odd). I think it still worked when he sold the house in the mid-90s. The reception was terrible, as the indoor antenna - some cables and a stick - also was quite homemade.... it was more of a principle for my father to have the old tv as long as it worked. If it functions, keep it. I don't think my father ever actually has systematically watched any tv in his whole life, except a certain nature program on Saturdays (it's been on air for 40+ years). ....and nowadays he almost only watches UA-cam on his tablet, thinks internet is great (he's turns 83 this summer).
That is so, so cool. I'm sure up to then the black and white/monocast was completely the norm and nobody else until then had any idea the difference that it would make. That truly must have been a turning point in your life as well as history itself.
Amazing the things we take for granted nowadays since we just live with them and don't know any better.
Wow, you know you're getting old when you remember B&W TV, rotary phones, crank-down car windows, high/low beam switches on the floor of cars, etc. And newscasters with a sense of humility...
Heck I remember when the Starter Button was on the floorboard, :)
I vividly remember the first time I watched a colored tv show at our neighbors house. It was Bonanza and my Equestrian heart, ( Before I ever got my first horse)... was in total awe! I loved Lil Joes horse. And today I ride black and white. Thanks for the memory!❤
One of my earliest memories was the NBC peacock. (Now, in LIVING COLOR).
I listened to it again a couple of years back, and burst out in tears.
I remember as a kid, the Tuckers next door got a color TV, way back in the 60s. All the neighborhood kids were absolutely mesmerized when they hosted a "Wizard Of Oz" party for us. Especially that hideous green witch! LOL!
The Witch was awesome.
The witch was green? Wow.
First thing I ever saw in colour on a TV was part of Star Trek TOS episode 'Arena' in a department store in Manchester, England, in the very early 1970's. It blew my mind along with 100 or so others crowded around a 22" set. Been a massive fan ever since! I was aged about 12.
So I have a theory about the reason the costumes and so on were done the way they were. The early color sets had issues. One of them was the way the electron guns were laid out and the masking on the screen. Colors were not all that vivid and differences between close colors were hard to notice. So in that set and in those costumes, Roddenberry chose as close to standard "color wheel" pure colors as he could get in order to make the best presentation on the early sets. As a side effect, it gave the show a very particular feel and a particular atmosphere that has come to define the series. Now, this is just my speculation and I have no idea if it is true or not, but Roddenberry was no slouch so it would not surprise me at all if this turned out to be fact.
I remember the George Carlin skit...which pile of laundry is whiter...answer...the blue one😂
Early-adopters of colour TV in my English town all seemed to have the saturation turned up way high, so that faces were all bright orange. I suppose they wanted to feel they were getting their money's worth.
Nineteen years... You're lucky to get nineteen months out of one today.
That's a good episode to have seen in colour for the first time too, the planet kirk lands on has a lot of colourful powders and rocks !
When I was a kid, I used to think everything was black and white in real life during these years.
I did too….i also thought if you went out TV was paused and it would pick up where you left off when you came home.
@@howard7073 Lol, nice.👍🏽
This moment is so under rated. Almost, if not all screens on EVERYTHING in the entire world are in color today.
Also, Great job bringing more attention to this great event.
Both of my grandpa's were some of the first in their neighborhoods to have a color TV, now my only living grandpa has a giant 85 inch flat screen. He say's that's the best thing he ever got .. well beside my grandma.
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My granny was such a huge technophobe, her brain would turn off if you said "digital switchover". We just got her a TV that "takes up less room" and "has more channels" one Christmas.
are you native? learn to use apostrophes correctly
@@ieatthighs ... we know you're not. In English a sentence always starts with a capital letter.
@@vulcan2882 I always get the same stupid response when I correct someone's grammar. instead of admitting you are wrong, it's always the same. do you know why I CHOSE not to start the sentence with a capital letter? Because it's internet and it's cumbersome, the correct characters are in their place. You however constructed a completely meaningless sentence by the atrocious use of the apostrophes. The difference here is I know how to write, you don't
I remember feeling a little jealous when we had friends with the tinted plastic sheet draped over the screen to give the illusion of color. The top was blue, the middle had a reddish tint and the bottom had green. They thought that they were all that in a bag of chips.
We would reverse the sheet for a hockey game so the ice would be blue instead of green.
A friend's father fell for that one. 🙂
Yeah, my Grandpa had that. 😊
Westerns must have looked great!
Our next door neighbour had one, it was awful, lol! 😅
"Finally somebody turned the lights on".....Ricky Ricardo
Even by the mid-1970s in the US, with color TVs still very pricey, many cash-strapped college students were still using B&W TV sets in their dorm rooms or apartments. I was one of the few that had a color TV, as it was a hand-me-down from my parents.
Color TV was highly coveted at that time by my fellow students in the dorm, as one girl wanted to get chummy with me so she could watch the "Donny & Marie [Osmond]" TV show in color, as she only had a B&W TV set.
I remember the first time I saw color TV. I was eight or nine. A friend of my dads got one (he might have been my dad's boss!) He invited a lot of people over. At 8:00 he turned on the TV and we saw the NBC peacock. It opened its feathers in B&W, then closed them, then opened them again in color. Everyone in the room gasped! It was like the most amazing thing we ever saw! It'd be another decade before WE had color TV. I still remember the show we watched--The Price is Right with Bill Cullen.
I can just imagine a roomful of people going "oooooooh!"
Yeah, as dumb as that sounds. It would be a good laugh in a movie about the 50s. But it was more sucking air in than breathing it out. Everyone just breathed in a little, really fast, like they were startled or shocked. We'd seen that old peacock a million times on our B&W TVs and he'd never done that before!
I do remember the Peacock!
Imagine if my folks lived long enough to see the TV become as flat as picture frame and the cable box is now an HDMI dongle.
Yeah, my 84 year old mum is still shocked that her entire VHS collection (across two cardboard boxes) would likely all fit on something smaller than a cigarette lighter.
@squaredcircle1111 Not if you want a no compromise Full HD to UHD image. Streaming comes with its compression and automatic throttling, depending on server load. Local hardware was always the perfect media.
who the heck calls it a HDMI dongle
Yeah but its laggy as heck@@squaredcircle1111
That may cause more issues, lag, decrease in picture quality, etc.@@squaredcircle1111
Growing up my father was a television repair man . One day in the late 60s when i was a kid he brought home a color television all my friends came to my house to watch it .Great memories.
Some time in the mid-60s, living in south Jersey, I remember my dad brought home a 25" color TV, I was maybe 10. It was rather uninteresting when first turned on because most shows were B&W but later that night, 8:00pm on NBC, the rainbow color peacock came on the screen announcing "The following program is brought to you in living color" with that famous jingle! A moment forever etched in my mind!
I missed it when everyone back then was a distinguished gentleman with the best narrator voices
Remember the summer we got our first color tv..it was either a 10” or 12”, I was 7-8 years old, and it had the standard rabbit ears and on a little roller cart to move from room to room..Daddy was so excited, and he and I definitely enjoyed our favorite shows together even more!!! Miss you Dad❤️❤️❤️
I remember my nana buying her first colour TV, or rather renting it, in 1973 to watch Princess Anne's marriage to Mark Philips.
Wow, that was so cool to see. A historic moment, really. Thanks for sharing.
We got our colour TV when I was around 8, which was around 1965. It was a big valve set, but I can't remember the make. This is in the UK and the first thing we saw on it was Trooping the Colour. It was fantastic, all those red jackets. We used to get the Radio and TV Times back then and used to check to see what programmes were in colour.
I grew up in Iowa City and I sure picked up quick that there was something verrrrry familiar about the men in the picture and Bob! Rare gem, and to catch it just on random UA-cam surfing late at night. Nice job, thanks!
We got our first color TV around 1973. I can still remember looking in the back of the black and white TV and seeing all of the tubes flowing. They could really squeal too. You could cook a chicken on top of the cabinet. The tubes put out an amazing amount of heat.
I remember when my parents got their first color set in 1965, everyone was so excited, all the neighbors came to watch.😊😊
This is station WMT in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Color capability came to the networks in the early to mid 1960's. Only a handful of shows were shown in color, and it didn't go mainstream until the early 1960's. Even then, it was the late 1960's before virtually all programs were broadcast in color.
Because color sets were so expensive, not many viewers had them. It would be the mid 1970's before mass-production caused the proliferation of color sets across America.
Don't forget that the inventor of the color TV was the engineer Guillermo González Camarena, a Mexican engineer.
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Not one inventor. RCA and others had been working on this for many years....
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Mr. Gonzales Camarena with a group of friends invented colours in TV, no one else. 📺
@@Novo.Galaicothat is a lie...a Scottish man named John Logie Baird was first to invent and publicly demonstrated his live colored television
Fake news smh
I'm not old enough to remember when color TV was new, but I am old enough to remember black and white TVs. My parents had a small B&W TV in their bedroom that became my bedroom TV in the 80s when they got a color TV. It was small but it had a clear picture was a lot better than no TV at all!
A good quality B&W TV would generally have a sharper image than a color TV, until HD came along.
I'm 45 now and also from that era, 80's / 90's?. Everyone's main tv was colour, but any 'extra' televisions were b&w, sometimes very small.
Your family was very well off to have more than one TV. We only had one black and white TV the whole time I was growing up, even after I finished college. BTW, my parents didn't give me one dime toward college. I took care of it myself with scholarships, grants, and loans. I finished only owing $3,000.
We had older 13" B&W TV that eventually became my TV monitor for my Commodore 64 until I got the Commodore monitor. I had my parents older 19" color as my bedroom TV. In retrospect I guess I could have hooked the Commodore to that.
On UK tv snooker (a sort of Pool game) was bought alive with colour tv. Once a commentator remarked, for those of you watching in black & white, the green ball is behind the red !!
Only in Britain! 📺🇬🇧😁
Never watched the snooker much, but based on my experiences with the B&W portable we had I imagine the green ball must've given a lot of B&W viewers some „Trick shot“ experiences... 😉
(After all: Green balls on green baize don't show up well in low-contrast analogue television... 😋)
When Daddy Cornstar was still a young un, and didnt make unnecessary groans.
I can imagine how crazy cool this must of felt at the time. Like watching Wizard of Oz for the first time when it goes from black and white and into technicolor.
"... and this is Les Nesman, saying more is colorful!... Take it away, Venus Flytrap!"
More music and Les Nessman.
We bring you more color and Les Nesman.
cut to Johnny and he's snoozing away in his chair
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
I know that was Mr. Carlson and not Les, but still, Les reported it.
The video was clearly digitally retouched
When my parents bought a color TV in the early 60s, the only programs broadcasting in color was Meet the Press, the Met Opera, and Diver Dan. Disney, Bonanza, and Bullwinkle came later.
We watched in black and white for years.
Love that men’s pants actually fit back then.
Everyone at home jumped off their couch, pointed at the TV, screaming at the top of their lungs, and ran out of the house.
Was a small boy when TV first came to my city; watching color TV go from pastel to vibrant; watching the first "live remote" broadcast sent from Europe all the way to my television on the US west coast; and watching the first moon landing "Live." Those were major events compared to today's obsession with "influencers" who have not, and will never accomplish anything for humankind.
My grandparents on my dads side bought dad a color Tv in '64 for an xmas present. Very few programs were in color back then so when you found something in color you of course watched it instead of something that wasn't. I find it relatable that a lot of the comments refer to the Wizard of Oz as a show they had to watch after getting their color set. Same in our household... the station that was going to have it on even went out of their way to let you know it would be broadcast in color... we had to see those shoes turn to a ruby red color... that was when the program went to color mode if I recall!
His suit is back in style.
I remember when we got our first color TV in 1971, we could only get one channel and a rerun of Gilligan's island was on.
Of course, it was a black and white episode. We had to wait for a commercial to see anything in color!
I love that even in that historic moment, the caster still couldn’t resist throwing in a pun.
Humble times, Humble people...❤❤❤❤
I remember the day sometime in the early 70s when TV Guide stopped putting a notation next to programs that are in color and started saying "all programs are in color unless designated by 'BW'".
For those wondering, the color in black and white looks slightly sharper. Can't say much more because it doesn't show much. There may be a greater black and white range because of the color camera though.
He was so humble.
Color TV changed how Americans dressed. TV shows were showing off with color TV. Characters wore bright, vibrant colors. American fashions changed with them. Look at shows from the early days of color TV and you can really see the impact on a black and white world.
This is so interesting.
I never thought about that! Of course it would affect trends!
This explains so much about disco!
This kinda explains why lava lamps became so popular with their varied hues.
Imagine you finally were able to pay for a color tv set after saving for years but you need a monthly subscription to make it work.
I remember seeing "Lost in Space" on a friends colour TV and being shocked to see the Robot's "red" claw!
I remember going to my uncle's house about 1968 to see The Wizard of Oz on his color set. They spent the first fifteen minutes of the show fiddling with the controls and wondering why it wasn't coming in color😂
I also remember how much more terrifying Star Trek was in color, especially the last shot in the closing credits of Balok's puppet alterego". Every episode I was compelled to watch it in anticipation but would always have to quickly cover my eyes🤪
Oh, that's a fun anecdote. If you watched Star Trek on a black and white set and then had to get used to colour, I'm interested what you thought of the look of the show? I've only ever watched Star Trek in colour, and it seems strange to imagine it in black and white, but I bet it took some adjusting the other way 'round, too!
I grew up with a rotary dial b&w 19-inch TV with rabbit ears, ghosts, lines, double images, rolling images with 3 networks & PBS. In 1979, my young wife and I saved up and bought ourselves a massive cable-ready 25-inch color TV with remote! A few years later we bought a 32-inch color TV and we subscribed to CATV. We were amazed at all the choices and crisp images. When we bought our first VCR, we were giddy with excitement because we no longer had to schedule our lives around the set program hours of our favorite TV shows and reruns.
Remember the “snow” when you turned the TV to a channel that your area didn’t get?
@@rebecca8525 I forgot to mention the snow. And TV signing off at night until early morning.
And now, with a PVR, I rarely watch anything live. I'll either use ChasePlay to watch it about 15 minutes behind live so I can skip the adverts or, more often, I'll just see what's available when I'm in the mood to watch TV. I've set SeriesLink for all the programs I'm interested in, so for most of them I don't even know which days they're on any more; there's almost bound to be something recorded I want to watch.
Y’all had DVR before DVR lol
@@sunnymane I definitely did. I was doing DVR back in the 80's.
I had two VCR's with 8 event recording. I had a huge stack of tapes and a system for watching them properly without recording over anything important. That was the life. I still have those VCR tapes somewhere.
And all of these years later, we're still watching leave it to Beaver in black and white.
The first color television that my father (may God have mercy on him) bought for us was in 1977. We had color transmission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1976, and our joy was indescribable with the color television, and it was of the Sharp brand.
I remember back in 1963. Telling my mom I was going to my friends house to watch tv because he had color. This was in Glendora California.
You got to see color TV before most Americans did.
Your mom to your dad: the TV is ours again as long as we never upgrade to color
First thing I saw on color TV was the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
I was a TV director at BBC 2 when it started broadcasting in colour in 1967. Though for some time beforehand we had been shooting on colour film ready for the switch over. And in 1964 or 65 i was working on a magazine show where we did an item demonstrating a colour camera and monitor. Of course the show was in black and white and nobody at home could see the color. You couldn't make it up.
I appreciate that he marked this occasion with a pun 😂
Dad had a 1959 Admiral with the CTC11 chassis. That TV ran until 1978 when we replaced it with an XL-100.
Our family still watches TV on the Old 1950 Radiation King. We don't see any need to replace it or upgrade!
/sarc.
Actually I don't watch TV anymore. Nothing but Big Pharma Ads, "Bad Drug Ads right after the Big Pharma ads of course", & bad gov't propaganda.
@@guytech7310 Homer! Is that you???
Yeh, like the whole world knows what these are. I suppose it's got to be bloody America.
I remember going to to the drug store with my Dad when I was a kid to buy tubes for the TV there was a machine and you dialed in the tube type and pushed a button and the replacement tube came out then you went and paid. We would then go home and the TV would be working again. Now I throw the entire TV away when it doesn't work.
That would have been RCA not Admiral.
I'm watching this on a 65" flat screen in 2024, with streaming services, the world at my fingertips, yet I'm still disgruntled.
What will it take for you to be gruntled again?
@@dalethelander3781 Great question. I fear it may be permanent, though. But perhaps if tRump and MAGA finally went away, that might help. Ban TikTok and dating apps...I'd be a bit more gruntled. We get some more funding to Ukraine to help them beat russia back over their border, putin falls out a window, Roe v. Wade restored, SCOTUS gets a refresh, Citizens United overturned, and my ex wife falls off a cliff and dies on impact...I'd definitely be gruntled again! 😂😇 Cheers!
I continue to get antenna TV and many of the great quality TV programs are in black in white on my 40” hi tec big screen . Westerns and George Burns don’t need to be in color . If i get in the future $4000 Apple Vision Pro I assume youtube will continue broadcast in original black and white 😁
@@vmobile890 I love BW films and TV. Like Young Frankenstein, or The Birds. The Munsters, etc. All great as produced originally.
Makes you realize just how far we have come.
Love their attitude. They're just happy to be involved. 😊
I remember watching Star Wars on a black and white TV once. It was still fine to watch. They did a good job of picking the colors, someone must have kept that in mind.
My dad was the 1st color TV tech in the state of Florida. I was born in 1956, and my father had a 1955 RCA color TV set (he used it as a test bed too). I grew up watching color shows come on the air Neighbor kids had no idea some of their favorite shows were in color until they saw them on our TV set!
*That's so cool. And Bonanza was created to sell color TVs.*
*Sept.12, 1959 was the first showing and from the beginning*
*it was filmed in color!*
1956, wow, that's old
I swear everyone on here is like 10😭
son of a legend, salute.
@@Animazingggg woah, 10? im 17
@@1A2T turning 13 in 5 months but I’m shocked when people say “2014 people”
Apparently, when colour TV started in the UK, one of my grandfathers waited all evening to see it, but he didn't have a colour TV - he expected colour on his old B&W tv!
Before then, my mothers first time watching ANY TV... As kids, her and her brother were one day taken to some rich persons house at the top of a hill, with a big antenna, to see some live coverage of the London Olympics... Her first experience of TV was seeing her father (my other grandfather) performing in the Olympic games!