Were Color TV's a big thing in 1975 since Lamont buys Fred a Color TV in the episode

[TVFactFan]

Masquerade Party? Color TV was also on display on the Game Show Wheel and Deal. So i was wondering was it the NEW Technology in mid 70's?

[Pitooey]

No way.............. Remember you're seeing the show in color in the 70's. Just about everyone had color TV's back then.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Pitooey


No way.............. Remember you're seeing the show in color in the 70's. Just about everyone had color TV's back then.

That maybe true but maybe some couldn't afford it in 75. My mom still had a BLACK AND WHITE in 82

[W.J. Griffin]

Then, as now, color tv's were expensive, and buying one back in the seventies was a major purchase($500.00 and up for a 21'' screen console back in the day was a LOT of money...a couple of month's pay!) Of course, with the improvements in tv technology, the price went down so that today you could get a 21'' screen for less than $150.00 today (depending on where you buy it!)

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
Then, as now, color tv's were expensive, and buying one back in the seventies was a major purchase($500.00 and up for a 21'' screen console back in the day was a LOT of money...a couple of month's pay!) Of course, with the improvements in tv technology, the price went down so that today you could get a 21'' screen for less than $150.00 today (depending on where you buy it!)

Ok, so that's why the Color TV was a big deal in that episode because it expensive during that time. Probably how DVD recorders are today.

[Mr. Television]

We had a color tv back then but it broke and we were stuck with a black and white tv for about 3 or 4 years.

[Jrnygrl]

And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.

[Mr. Television]

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.

We never had a remote control in the 70's. The first time I saw one we stayed at a motel.

[W.J. Griffin]

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
And remember some of the color tv sets didn't alway come with a remote control, those were the really expensive ones. Oh my gosh just talking about this brings back so many memories of not having a color television and now we take them for granted.

If you think THAT takes you back, dig this:

As a small boy, I can remember my father going to the drug store (that's right...the DRUG STORE!!) to buy tubes for our tv. What you would do is buy the tubes, then go to this weird-looking contraption called a 'tube tester' and put your just-purchased tube in the holder to see if it worked...if it did, fine, but if it didn't, you had to buy another tube (I don't recall this drug store having a "money-back" gaurantee), and you'd be out...two bucks, I think (which, back during the time this was occuring {1966-68} was a LOT of money!!)

And speaking of color...I can remember, before we got our first set (in 1966, when all the tv programs were made in color for the first time, and, I think, the prices went down low enough so even a Black family that had just moved from the projects could afford one) my father had bought a sheet of plastic with red, yellow, and green stripes on it, that you would place in front of your standard black-and-white console (ours was a "Zenith"), and the idea was that this would simulate "color" tv (it didn't...it just hurt your eyes). Needless to say, we bought our first color tv a few months later...(ahh, you young kids just don't realize how lucky you all are these days!!)

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
If you think THAT takes you back, dig this:

As a small boy, I can remember my father going to the drug store (that's right...the DRUG STORE!!) to buy tubes for our tv. What you would do is buy the tubes, then go to this weird-looking contraption called a 'tube tester' and put your just-purchased tube in the holder to see if it worked...if it did, fine, but if it didn't, you had to buy another tube (I don't recall this drug store having a "money-back" gaurantee), and you'd be out...two bucks, I think (which, back during the time this was occuring {1966-68} was a LOT of money!!)

And speaking of color...I can remember, before we got our first set (in 1966, when all the tv programs were made in color for the first time, and, I think, the prices went down low enough so even a Black family that had just moved from the projects could afford one) my father had bought a sheet of plastic with red, yellow, and green stripes on it, that you would place in front of your standard black-and-white console (ours was a "Zenith"), and the idea was that this would simulate "color" tv (it didn't...it just hurt your eyes). Needless to say, we bought our first color tv a few months later...(ahh, you young kids just don't realize how lucky you all are these days!!)

So do you think DVD's should be a BIG THING to viewers who watched sAnford and son during it's original run and other shows since RECEPTION wasn't the best back then? And getting the DVD, all the viewers who watched Sanford and Son can say to their self-"this is the picture I was deprived of in the 70's."

[W.J. Griffin]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
So do you think DVD's should be a BIG THING to viewers who watched sAnford and son during it's original run and other shows since RECEPTION wasn't the best back then? And getting the DVD, all the viewers who watched Sanford and Son can say to their self-"this is the picture I was deprived of in the 70's."

Digital videos have been around for years, now (At least since the mid-eighties and the "video-disks"{remember them? They were the same size as 78rpm record albums!!}, and a lot of shows from the seventies were "digitally restored" on videotape...including "Sanford and Son"!), so, if anything, you probably got the best picture you were going to get back in the day. (remember, at the time, NBC was a subsidiary of RCA...which is now a subsidiary of Westinghouse...which I belive is NOW owned by GE {I give Radio Shack another couple of years....} )

[FredFan55]

........that color TV was, in fact, an expensive luxury in the mid 1970s. Most middle and upper income households had one, but any other TVs around the house were likely black and white. True color portables were seldom seen, and many households had but one TV to begin with.

FredFan55

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by FredFan55
........that color TV was, in fact, an expensive luxury in the mid 1970s. Most middle and upper income households had one, but any other TVs around the house were likely black and white. True color portables were seldom seen, and many households had but one TV to begin with.

FredFan55

So like DVD recorders are today, i guess that's how color TV were in 1975.

[marvin g]

Fred was a poor junkman! A color t.v was a luxury to him!! Color t.v's were a big thing in the mid 60's! That's when alot of t.v show starting filming in color. The only one who had one was my aunt. She had a big floor model and it had a remote. We didn't get one til around 1975!

[HuskerOne]

It was around 1990, my dad and I were watching a baseball game on our color TV and (big ugly dish) satellite, when all of a sudden it started to storm and the electric came through and struck the TV. Then my dad got mad because he bought that television right before I was born, (14 at the time). He said I've had this tv for 14 years. So we went out and bought a new tv. It lasted all of about 2 years before it quit working. So I guess the point of my story my family got a color television in 1976. Plus things aren't mad the way they used to be made