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Color difficult depends on the era of the set, what's wrong with it and the knowledge, or lack there of, of the person working on it.
Different collectors like different things. There's some guys that only collect pre-war, others that are only interested in late 40s sets, some who only want TV station broadcast monitors, some who only like early color, some who only like soild state sets.
I personally collect everything I can afford and can justify saving over something that takes up similar space. What that translates to so far is mostly tube sets and hybrids from 46-75. I tend to favor early post war, interesting looking portables of the 50s and 60s, color, remote sets, and sets that represent interesting technological advances, hight points and failures, as well as transition such as the hybrid sets. By the late 50s console design was fairly standard between color and monochrome consoles and the circuits in monochrome were well standardized so if I can get a cool Danish Modern Zenith as monochrome or color why not save the color set and have something that I can watch modern content on without missing color?
My interest strongly tapers after the end of hybrids. I've got some early SS Zenith sets, some handheld sets, the SS sets Ive had since new and was using when analog cable ended, and a 34" 1080i HD-CRT Sony with HDMI in as a daily watcher (it also represents the peak of technological development CRT TVs experienced) and that's it.
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