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There was also the problem of how far away the transmitter was and adjusting the rabbit ears antennas that most people in the mid to late 50's were using to bring in color.
Multi path distortion (ghosting) was a problem then and still was a problem in the 60's. In 1966 I installed the largest, strongest roof top antenna I could find with a rotator to minimized the ghosting. I was also DX'ing the Chicago stations from Milwaukee 90 miles away.
Once you had the rabbit ears just right, then one had to constantly fine tune the set. There was no AFT or auto circuits. The signal would drift and had to be adjusted. Another problem was vertical sync. I remember getting up constantly to stop the picture from rolling.
Then there was the problem of NTSC color (never the same color). Often people would have a green cast to their faces.
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