Color Television was disappointing when first introduced?

[oldtvman]

I have lived thru the early stages of developement of the color television products, I still say that when RCA jumped the gun and practically claimed credit for the the entire ntsc system, other manafacturers were left in the cold, and as well all know competition is one of the key factors in a product being more readily available and the cost then starts to drop. After the 1st initial surge of color models, all the other companies basically set on the sidelines and said "ok Rca you sell color to the public". and until the early sixties you saw little or no product from the majority. You also have to consider that most of those manufacturers had plenty of stock on components to build b & w sets, they wanted to exhaust those supplies before jumping head first into the color market.