Color Television was disappointing when first introduced?

[yagosaga]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

I don't know why U U.S.A. folks complained in the '50's and early '60's that a colour tv was 3-4 salaryes. If a "Telecolor" would cost only 3-4 slarayes, by 1989 unless 25% of the house holds would had had colour tvs (colour televison was introduced in Romania in 1983).

What was the price difference in Romania?

[Telecolor 3007]

A "Telecolor" was about 15,000 lei (fifteenthouthand lei), an "Cromatic" (which had a bigger diagonale) was about 17,000 lei and an Soviet "Elcrom" 13,000 lei.
A sallary was about 1,200-2,200 lei.

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

...a Soviet "Elcrom" 13,000 lei.
A sallary was about 1,200-2,200 lei.

Was that 1200 to 2200 lei a year? Ten times the average salary for a color TV?

IIRC in the '54-'55 school year when you could still buy a $1000 CT-100 from the showroom floor (where and when I first saw a CT-100), my spanish teacher was making $3800 a year. Four times more than the price of a CT-100; but it didn't matter, there was no way he could afford one either after living expenses (he had a family).