Early color required a touch most customers didn't have.

[oldtvman]

Time after time I would go on service calls in the early 's on color sets and it was evident that most customers had little skill in both setting up picture controls as well as having an acceptable signal source. I would see pink faces, bright green gray scale, ghosting and any number of problems that were common back then. I'm sure most dealers didn't tell customers that those sets needed periodic attention.

These problems were pretty consistent up until the manufacturers stepped in and added things like auto deguassing, vir, and pretty made the sets fool proof some for most people they were able to achieve reasonable results.

To me a lot of these problems contributed to the opinion that color tv's were not able to produce a good color picture and color was not ready for prime time. I'm sure if any of us would have been a color customer in the 50's or early 60's we could have shown some pretty jaw dropping pictures.