Why the color tv sets where so expensive at the beging?

[tvcollector]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Why in the early days the color tv sets where so expensive? It was becuase manufacturing cost where high (no printed boards, a lot of time to assamble the components, delta color picture tube where more expensive and harder to adjust) and that 1964 selling boom of color tv sets camed because by that time printed circuit borads and semiconductors camed into tv set, making them more easy to be manufactured?

It's kinda like today with cars.. They've been producing electric cars for over 10 years, and hybrids even longer, but yet people are still buying all gas cars the most.. But then again I don't think the technology is there yet with 100% electric cars or they are still way too expensive for average consumers..