Real Date of Australian Color Intro?

[NewVista]

How would New Zealanders feel now hearing "Australia beat them to Color"?

This is a Propaganda Porky worthy of Kim Jong-un.

[6GH8cowboy]

Amazing there was about a 15 year lag from the color heyday of the early 60s in the US to 1975 in another country. Wow.

[Carmine]

Couple interesting dates so far, if they can be believed...

Cuba: color in 1959, resumed in 1975!

North Korea has color TV for years before South Korea!?

Really makes you want to see some of the old sets in far-off nations that used NTSC color early on, when the US made color TV sets instead of simply drooling in front of them.

[AVeturri]

I really got a kick out of that color tv introduction list. How some countries did not have color TV until the 80s..is amazing to me.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Couple interesting dates so far, if they can be believed...

Cuba: color in 1959, .

When you click the DATE, you can see ascending chronological order:
Cuba 1958, NTSC for instance.

Then there is the "1st PAL country: Australia June 1967
Wow, 2 Months ahead of Germany, inventor of PAL

[austvarchive]

Australia didnt get color until 1975

There were a few test transmissions done by ATV0 in the late 60's, but this was NTSC broadcast using a camera borrowed from the states - it would not have been viewable or compatible with any of the equipment


There were also color demos at the royal melbourne show around the same time, but these were closed circuit and not aired.

We were to go with PAL in 69/70 around the time the british did, but it was delayed and delayed by the government, until the official start date in early 1975.

Most videotape machines were color capable and some broadcasts prior to the official date were possibly color, but they got into trouble many times so were forced to kill the color signal at the transmitter.

There were however very few models of cameras prior to 1974 in australia, most cameras were still monochrome image orthicon models up until 75, most stations ordered in color cameras around 1974, and the release of the models used here usually co-incides with that date.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by austvarchive

...this was NTSC broadcast using a camera borrowed from the states ..

But Wikipedia says this "First broadcast" of Australian color was "PAL"

And Broadcast News article says camera was integrated into broadcast chain to sub for failed ATV-0 camera (a CCIR TK-60?)

And they were able to "compare its color + B&W image" on racetrack control room monitors.

But the B&W monitors were not dual standard back then? (but may have locked up
in 525/60 monochrome tuning the wide range H & V Hold knobs?
(with lots of dotcrawl shifting Gamma)(no notch filter)

Then on-sight RCA man says "this is as good as any color back home" implying NTSC
(Apples-to-apples comparison - not apples-to-oranges NTSC/PAL)

However, article implies Dual Standard scan TK-42 image integrated into 625/50 broadcast using its luminance only signal?
But color viewed only as far as studio by 20-mi μwave link. So really closed circuit
as very doubtful ABCB authorized color broadcast?
But chroma & burst may have been sneaked to air, risking heavy fine & banishment to Port Arthur, Tasmania

[Glenz75]

Colour was introduced into New Zealand in 1973 and went to air in 1974 for the commonwealth games.