1953 Compatible Color TV Announcement

can you imagine trading in a TV today? They just keep getting moved to other rooms at most houses or possibly on the lawn for a garage sale .. and most of the ones people own need converters

Black and White broadcasts did not officially end until June 2009 when HDTV transmissions became mandatory. Today, when you watch a black and white broadcast, it is just an altered color signal in digital. Black and White television had a life cycle of over 79 years here in the US. It has served us well.

My family did not have a television receiver until 1970, and then a big B/W console.

It had a variable frequency control for the UHF channels.  There were no local stations there, but I did hear amateur radio operators on the edges which was fun to listen to.

True, but it's very interesting to note that Sarnoff had no problem making all of Armstrong's FM receivers obsolete by getting the FCC to move the FM Broadcast band.

Money hungry BASTARD, that's what David Sarnoff was.

This makes me sick. RCA stole the work of Philo Farnsworth, who invented electronic television.

Everytime I hear the words "General David Sarnoff" I want to throw up. Sarnoff was not a General, except in his own mind.

He was nothing but a peddler who stole half the patents he used. Because of "General Asshole Sarnoff" we still have AM radio, which was obsolete in 1934!

Burn in hell "General" Sarnoff.

By US standards my family was working class in the 70s (I was born in 1969). We got a 36" GE colour set for the living room in 1973. No cable, no remote. No TV in my room until I was 14; it was used, tiny, B/W. My grandparents had a mid-60s big Zenith cabinet colour TV at their house with a wired remote!

I'm too young to remember any announcement of a show being in colour, so anything up to 1973-74 is all history to me.

I Went to Best Buy to buy a Color TV they told me never to come back again

I'm Going to Buy one right now at Best Buy