WHAT YEAR WERE COLOR TV'S FIRST INTRODUCED?

Question

WHAT YEAR WERE COLOR TV'S FIRST INTRODUCED?

Answer 1

Mmm, this is a tough question, much like asking when did HDTV sets start out.....

In 1957, the first color TV sets were introduced, however VERY few people could afford it and Nationally Televised Color Shows really didn't come out until 1965....

Yep, there's two dates that are actually true and apply here...

In 1965 the first color TV sets that many could afford to own was available, and obviously that's because the networks were introducing color to the biggest and BEST shows on Prime Time.....

Before that, EVERYBODY owned Black and White, and when 1965 rolled around, you could see your friends buying new color TVs one by one...by 1970 about 1/2 of the population owned one color TV set, and by 1975 everybody owned one....

So it actually took about 18 years to get rid of black and white from the US households.....

My parents were on the 1975 end of that bell curve...they were CHEAP ! Especially my dad....he thought it was more important to do things like.....EAT and DRINK !

Grrrrrrrr! Cheap Ba$t^rd !

NOPE....1929 was when Philo T Farnsworth invented Television as a COMPLETE electronic system that actually worked...Before that, he was working out the bugs and trying to be the first man to actually come up with the whole system...camera and TV.

By 1938, he had won the lawsuits he brought on to RCA and they had to pay him for his patents....it almost broke him and his investors.....RCA had deep pockets.

And d**n....I can never remember the guy who tried to s***w him over....

Boris Schlotsky ....Boris and Natasha....Cyrus Mc Cormick (Reaper man!)  Kukla Fran and Ollie ?  Nahhhhh.....

All I know is that RCA eventually invented the color system...or FORCED it on us....Deep Pockets remember?

Answer 2

It was actually in 1929...but only a few of them were introduced - about six in the entire world available to the richest of the rich.  That's why if you look at early television broadcasts all the way to the Beatles' late period, color TV's were very rare, so the broadcasts were made out in black and white.

Answer 3

Patents for electronic color TV actually predate the general accepted invention of electronic television, however, those early systems had thier own set of problems (mostly they hadn't gotten black and white to work)

However, in the late 20's (1928 I beleive), CBS came up with a color TV system that consisted of a black and white TV and a very very fast spinning disc. Each TV frame consisted of 3 actual frames, the brightness info for each color, and the wheel was kept in sync by a signal in the broadcast. The effect of each color of the disc being over the color frame and taking advantage of the flicker effect of our eyes gave a color picture...albiet it was big, bulky, technically inferior and very very buggy. The FCC adpoted this system as the national standard in 1950. However, the sytstem was incompatable with existing TV sets, meaning stations would need special color broadcasts. The Koren war stopped production of these sets and with various lawsuits about the technology, it failed.

Electronic TV had been defined (at least in the US) in 1941, which is offical start of the electronic TV age.  Between 1946 and 1950 RCA had been working on a color system that would allow existing non-color sets to still work. The FCC authorized color broadcasts using this new color standard on Dec 17, 1953. Color sets didn't appear untill 1954.

However, with the high cost of not only the recievers, but the upgrades to the stations and production of TV shows, it wasn't untill the 60's that color started becoming commonplace. The broadcast of Disney's "Wonderful World Of Color" is noted as being the program that launched the public into wanting color TV.