Colour TV officially starts 50 years ago today. (15/11/69)
Dec 16, 2019 22:05:00 GMT
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 16, 2019 22:05:00 GMT
Dec 15, 2019 9:03:32 GMT @getcarter said:
I remember when I was a kid we didn’t get our first color tv! Till 1976 lol quite bizarre really! Especially when I think we didn’t have a telephone either till around this time! at the time I remember us having two Black and white TVs, one in the lounge and a old 60s B & W one in my playroom, it consisted of brown wooden screw on legs and gold and brown material over the speaker grill! And had about 4 preset push buttons like pegs! With the name of the channel written over them! BBC1, BBC2 ITV and the fourth one was a spare lol! Guess scarce regarding channels back then! and to add insult to injury, BBC2 was as painful as a poke in the eye! Particularly because it didn’t start till about noon every day and then all ya got was the usual typical open university programs like the ones portrayed in the tv series Life on Mars’ and so until noon you were subjected to that famous BBC test card of the girl and the chalk board. Looking back what was interesting and funny about this tv was that when you switched it on the valves would take ages to get warm and come to life! Consequently this meant you were subjected to a small dot in the centre of the screen which after a few minutes eventually increased in size until the picture appeared! I was reminded once of this funny memory when I was watching the young ones on tv, and Vivienne said’ whilst watching tv, I wish we had a video so I could record the dot’ and watch it in the morning! and so when we did get that color tv in 76’ for the lounge! I was absolutely buzzing with the awesomeness of it! and never watched that old B & W in my playroom ever again lol!
it’s amazing how since then TVs have gone a long way! what with size and quality and are just no big deal now really! but back in the day if ya had a color tv which was a 26” instead of the usual norm 20” or 22” you were considered a bit spoilt or maybe a bit of a snob!
Same here - we didn't get our first Colour set until 1979.
I still think the set was bloody jinxed - we had the set during August 1979; two weeks later ITV went on strike - and the station was off air until October.
Leaving us with BBC1 and a bit of BBC2 offerings only.
Then in 1980, during a massive thunderstorm, our aerial was struck and it blew the thing up - during an afternoon episode of "Playschool".
Just as they were going through the Arched window too.... so that did royally p*** me off. (It was always the interesting stuff behind the Arched window).
If you were a viewer in the Channel Islands - they didn't get colour TV until the summer of 1976.
As the IBA and BBC struggled to find a way of getting the signal from the mainland. They had to develop a new aerial capable of getting the signal as far as Alderney, and then use a relay signal from there to Jersey.