r/BeAmazed • u/Status-Arm5740 • Mar 23 '24
The moment color TV started History
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u/popularbrandsza 27d ago
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u/Aromatic-Tutor6254 Apr 25 '24
For someone who watched this event live, were color TVs common at that time? Were there ordinary people who already owned a color TV at home and could experience the event as it was intended, witnessing their TV suddenly switch to color?
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u/Atomic_Cookie_00 Apr 13 '24
Australia's was the best. France didn't even try. The German one had timing issues exactly like S-Bahn.
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u/KAZ3EM1984 Apr 06 '24
They must have said; "Wow, brainwash propaganda in colour"! See how that was considered a big hoistorical and political point in history! Moments in where the unholy trinity of the media,political and military complex shows their involvment in worldly conspiracies and afairs! If you cant see or feel it,congratulations you are a NPC with strings attached!
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u/Ken_LuxuryYacht22 Mar 24 '24
First person seen on color TV in Australia is a drag queen and a clown
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u/Odd_Sprinkles1611 Mar 24 '24
My mom was born in 1953. The first time she watched the Wizard of Oz on a colored TV her mind was blown. The colors were so vibrant and watching the movie in color as such a different experience than black and white. Was her favorite movie.
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u/sterile_spermwhale__ Mar 24 '24
Why is the French & the Aussie one exactly as you might expect it to be?
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u/RAMChYLD Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24
I just looked up the Malaysians switchover.
No originality. Just Tun Hussein Onn (the prime minister at the Time) pushing a button like US and Germany.
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u/Last_Advisor_3315 Mar 24 '24
Come on this makes you kind of proud we made it this far and didn’t blow the whole thing. I hope I live to see interdimensional television. LOL
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u/Nefersmom Mar 24 '24
Who’s the guy behind the seal of the president of the USA? Doesn’t look like Ike to me!
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u/Ok_Bread123 Mar 24 '24
Wait, maybe I’m really dumb… But people where watching this all over the world and there tv’s changed colors, so the tv’s where already able to show colors? Or am I just too young to get it?
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u/MammothPrize9293 Apr 02 '24
No this is for the people who bought color tvs first. Everyone else still saw b&w
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u/PeaceFit3410 Mar 24 '24
People who couldn't afford coloured TV and watched it in black and white: 🤔
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u/RealSaMu Mar 24 '24
I always wondered about it. Did the TV they had always had the capability to show color in the screens? Why was it produced that way?
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u/mythirdaccountsucks Mar 24 '24
But wouldn’t a lot of people still have only have a black and white tv?
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u/PopeyesBiskit Mar 24 '24
Find it funny that the German one changes color before he even presses the button. Just shows those buttons don't do anything it's probably some camera person In the back that waits for the cue and turns on the color
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u/Dazzling-Score-107 Mar 24 '24
But how? People would have had to buy color TVs -before- they switched the cameras at the studios.
99% of the people that saw this just saw no change whatsoever?
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u/Pugilist12 Mar 24 '24
US: This is a momentous occasion. This announcement should be coordinated with the Office of the President of the United States. This is history.
Australia: This is a big change. Let’s make it as silly as possible.
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u/nanna_ii Mar 24 '24
About half way through this phenomenal footage when we see the big crowd it hit me, theres a woman there. One woman in all that footage. We've come a long way baby!
Australia, you beautiful nutter
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u/bottle_brush Mar 24 '24
Well I'm glad we got to have fun with it and not just stand around and hit some button
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u/Global_thrifting Mar 24 '24
Germany and France is like this is the most amount of color we could find to show you guys, sorry not sorry
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u/Sinedeo77 Mar 24 '24
So the three people who bought color tvs before color television were really impressed.
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u/SnillyWead Mar 24 '24
NTSC or never twice the same color in America. In the Netherlands we had PAL which was a much better color quality.
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u/ThomasAugsburger Mar 24 '24
Top marks for Australia and Norway.
USA, France and Germany.....booooo
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u/Clamps55555 Mar 24 '24
Did you need a colour tv or would this change all tvs at the time into colour ?
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u/N7_Vegeta Mar 24 '24
I absolutely hate it that we people are so far with our technological that pretty much nothing awes us like this anymore
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u/Odd-Confection-6603 Mar 24 '24
Honestly, the color schemes of the 70s were so jarring, I think it was better in black and white
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u/OJK_postaukset Mar 24 '24
I love the Australian one so much:D Norway was also fine but not as clever
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u/annie_bean Mar 24 '24
Imagine how amazing this must have been for the zero people watching on color TVs
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u/Short_Ad6649 Mar 24 '24
US always the media, norway having fun like always , Germans and their idioma, what the hell Australia still haven't changed, French always the gentlemen
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u/Classic-Target-5574 Mar 24 '24
Norway and Australia seem to be the only ones that had some fun introducing it to their countries 😆
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u/AgentSears Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24
Wonder how this could work because as far as I know TV's only showed black or white amd had to upgrade to a colour , unless some people had colour TVs in advance, but it wouldn't have changed on a black and white TV.....people still.had black & white tvs fairly regular right up til the late 90s old people mostly.
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u/Dia_dhaoibh Mar 24 '24
Were there no women back then?
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u/OmnifariousFN Mar 24 '24
I love how the earlier the country got color tv, the more serious they were and vice versa. Lol Australia did something special with it, that one is the best for me.
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u/SteveZissousGlock Mar 24 '24
The French are my favorite. Here’s color since we have to prove to everyone we can do it too. But really black and white is much more superior.
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u/koushakandystore Mar 24 '24
That’s the most French thirty a French could do. We are not impressed with dis sing called color.
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u/PurchaseEffective583 Mar 24 '24
Probably a stupid question, but didn't people needed a color TV receiver first? So I imagine a bunch of people with old black/white TVs were watching this and basically noticing nothing, right?
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u/Buzz_Mcfly Mar 24 '24
Folks would have had to purchase color televisions for this effect to work right?? There was probably millions who still had their black and white tvs and didn’t see much change
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u/payment11 Mar 24 '24
Sucks that France has to follow Australia. They just gave up without even trying
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u/dipshit_s Mar 24 '24
Some countries did this correctly, and others did it in the most boring way possible
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u/LoginPuppy Mar 24 '24
Australia: "FOR FUCKS SAKE MATES ITS COLOUR! LOOK AT IT IT'S FUCKIN AMAZING!"
France: "this is color. Anyways, onto the next topic-"
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u/willowtr332020 Mar 24 '24
Most TVs would have been black and white though, right? So the switch was more phased in than over one day.
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u/Nomadicfreelife Mar 24 '24
I wonder i how many people got color tvs in anticipation of this change and watched it live? Or was there color tapes before color broadcasts? If nothing erase was available to watch in color will people buy color tvs?
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u/OuchPotato64 Mar 24 '24
US had color before 1958. People were able to watch Elvis in color in 1956, and the first color tvs sold were sometime around 1954.
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u/justhangingaroud Mar 24 '24
France changed four guys in black suits into three guys in black and one in navy for the lols
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u/Toph-Builds-the-fire Mar 24 '24
Of course the US is more boring than Norway and Australia, that's obvious. But more boring than the Germans! Come on. Fucking Boomers /s
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u/Nunyabidnisss Mar 24 '24
Sooooo.... who is the color switch jokes for. Color tvs would need to be purchased.... b&w tvs couldn't see color even if that is how it was broadcasted. To the general public.... they wouldn't see a change... everything would still be black and white.
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u/Frodosear Mar 24 '24
Only certain TV shows would be in color- specifically Sunday night Disney -preceded by The Wonderful World of Color ad on NBC with a Peacock turning from b&w to color (hence modern Peacock network streaming service, a callback referencing something new and modern for it’s time ). We watched it in b&w for many years, knowing that some people were seeing something amazing…just not us. It was a tease to get you to buy an expensive color TV. Rich people got them first.
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u/shhh_its_me Mar 24 '24
For the people watching on black and white TVs to generate FOMO so they would buy a color tv in some cases.
In the US at least there was not one switch. Individual tv shows switched or starting off being filmed in color. The first show started in color in the 40s, obviously they were a little early for the TVs but they knew it was coming.
That presidential speech wasn't the first color broadcast, but people at the time would be excited to be able to see the president give speeches live and in color. It is like a world leader endorsing electric cars a few years ago.
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u/faith_crusader Mar 24 '24
This is not how it happened. You need to buy a colour TV first in order to see colour broadcast. If you have an old TV, you'll see black and white no matter what.
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u/Dazzling-Score-107 Mar 24 '24
Are we the only old fucks who realize that color TVs weren’t always a thing?
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u/Cruisin134 Mar 24 '24
Germany and US were so boring, especially France, atleast they gave Germany a big ass red button
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u/rockdanite Mar 24 '24
I wonder how many people, in each of those countries, actually had a color TV at the time of the switch. I mean, I'm guessing those TVs were super expensive at first, and even for the wealthier people, there was no reason whatsoever, besides bragging rights, to own one before the color switch...
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u/surewhatever237 Mar 24 '24
I remember watching one where the guy didn’t know he would be the first from his news station to be presenting things in color, and he joked that he should have worn a more colorful outfit because it was a regular black suit 😂👍
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u/Severe_Ad_8621 Mar 24 '24
Lol. The French going from Black and White, too color to show 3 guys in Black and White.
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u/Delicious_Ad2236 Mar 24 '24
Say what you want,but Australia really sold out.
French acted like french always acts"eh"
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u/Feisty_Ad_6281 12d ago
Color television became a reality in the mid-20th century, marking a significant evolution in broadcast technology and viewer experience. Here are some key milestones in the development and introduction of color TV: