Start of German color tv in 1967 on SABA color tv set

This video shows the SABA T2000 color tv set with 27 tubes, made in 1967. It was one of the first PAL color tv sets in Europe. The tv set is fully restored and after more than forty years still in working condition.

The tv set displays the start of German color television on the international radio exhibition Berlin 1967. The German secretary of state, Willy Brandt, pushed the red button with which color should switched on. But a technician in the studio switched color on some seconds before Brandt pushes the button.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Color
• television
• PAL
• 1967
• Willy
• Brandt
• Funkausstellung
• Berlin
• Startschuss
• Farbfernsehen

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

How come germany didnt start color broadcasting until 67?

[TeslaMaster]

There was a long delay of television in Germany due to WW2. Public television with private tv sets at home started in 1952, while the U.S. had television since 1939.

[TeslaMaster]

A R.F. modulator was modulated by the vision and sound signal of the video recording. The VHF output was connected with the antenna input of the tv set. That's all.

[anorak2]

There was a European agreement to broadcast colour in 625 only, even before the choice of colour system was settled (which it never was as we know). 625 with NTSC or SECAM were options, and the BBC tested those.

[musicfreak1967]

Welch ein mega-peinlicher Fehler ist denn da wohl dem Bildtechniker unterlaufen, dass das Bild bereits farbig war, bevor Willy Brandt überhaupt den Knopf drückte???

[sk83502]

how could you make this video in color, when the color only started at the time the guy pressed the button? :D so no way you could have filmed this in color. my life is destroyed now...

[filmnet]

@MerleOberon I wasn't even alive back then. The USA had colour a few years before the UK, true. You forgot the negatives: constant immoral advertisements. Then cigarettes advertised in childrens programmes. Now prescription drugs like Viagra are sponsors... of the news(!) Talk about low. And adverts right after the titles and before the end credits, no thanks. Our domestic programmes were huge ratings winners vs. Gilligan's Island!

[Psyblader501]

@MerleOberon But I don't care for NTSC or PAL etc, Digital TV is the future :D

[MerleOberon]

@Psyblader501 I don't need to read it, I watched it, It was fine, I don't remember any real problems with it, The Wizard of Oz etc. were displayed just fine, full rich, natural color (colour)

[MerleOberon]

@filmnet well haha, you were sitting there watching your B&W boring Euro TV whilst we were enjoying Green Acres and Gilligans Island in full color (colour)

[Psyblader501]

@MerleOberon lol NTSC is shit compared to PAL you can read it everywhere

[Psyblader501]

@CommodoreCaravan1981 Dann kauf einen LED LCD TV, da sind sie wieder schön kräftig :D

[Habboelfe]

@Postbus22 this was the first mistake in german color tv :D

[Postbus22]

You can see the color was before he pressed the button xD

[AidanLunn]

@anorak2 It wasn't, Britain was the first.

July 1st 1967 :)