Myths about early color proven wrong

[radiotvnut]

A friend, who's father passed away in 1980, said his Dad refused to own a color TV for the exact reasons mentioned above. His Mother, who lived until the late '80's, was the same way.

When I first started picking up used TV's to fix and sell, back around 1990, I had no problem selling decnet working B&W sets to older people who did not want a color TV.

Last April, me and some other VK'ers cleaned out a TV shop in SC. Among the sets we brought back were a couple of Sylvania solid state 22" B&W consoles from '78. The shop owner explained that as recent as the '80's, they still had customers who either had fears of X-ray exposure or claimed that a color TV didn't look right and was too much trouble to keep adjusted. Customers such as these were the reasons this dealer kept large screen B&W consoles in stock for as long as he could get them. I think the last large screen B&W was made by Zenith in '81.

I'm sure many of these people had bad memories of the early days of color TV and either didn't realize that later color TV's had improved or they simply didn't want to take the time to examine a later model color TV.