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Originally Posted by Celt
Ah, okay! Ted Turner strikes again! 
Being an old fart, I grew up with B&W. Color film for cameras was only used on special occasions. B&W was the norm and when I was little virtually everything was broadcast in B&W. So to me it's nothing unusual and I've always appreciated the wonderful use of contrast and lighting on B&W. |
I am almost 50 years old and also grew up with b&w TV. Every TV my folks owned was monochrome, starting with a 1954 RCA Victor 21" console, then a 21" Crosley Super V in the early '60s, followed by a Sears Silvertone b&w portable in 1965. I eventually got my hands on a 1964 Sears Silvertone 21" roundie color set in 1970 (a trash day find that lived in the basement), but the first color set in our living room was my grandmother's Sears 25" console, when she moved into our house after my dad got married and moved into his second wife's house. The Silvertone remained until I moved out of the house I grew up in, in 1999, even though by now (29 years later) the set no longer worked. The Silvertone roundie followed me to my dad's second wife's home, but met its demise in 1973 when the video output tube socket cracked out of the video PC board.
I wound up watching a 1961 Philco 19" portable, yes, black and white, the next two years. Didn't get my first new color set until 1979, a Zenith L1310 13" portable, followed by a Zenith 13" with electronic (varactor) tuning, followed in 1995 by a Zenith Sentry 2 19" which I still have. The small portables were gotten rid of when I moved to where I live now. I brought the Sentry with me and bought a new RCA 19" for the living room of my then-new apartment. The Sentry is in my bedroom and is used only to back up the living room set (it will replace the RCA when the latter eventually goes West).
BTW, regarding colorized TV programs, I don't think that was a good idea. Colorizing classic TV shows destroys their authenticity, IMHO. If these shows were meant to have been shown in color, they would have been filmed that way except, of course, for very old shows that were filmed in television's early days, before video tape and before the NTSC color standard was adopted in this country in the mid-'50s; even though color telecasting began then, NBC did not introduce its color peacock, with the announcement "The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC", until 1956 or so, and ABC was hesitant to announce that certain of its shows were being presented in color in the '60s because not all ABC affiliates were equipped for color telecasting at the time; ABC did not want to confuse viewers by announcing that a program was in color when the network knew full well the program would be telecast in b&w in many smaller markets.