Did people in the 50s and 60s have black and white TVs or colourful ones?
In the U.S.: The first NTSC standard was developed in 1941 and had no provision for color TV. (NTSC governs and standardizes all television broadcasts in North America and some other parts of the world, such as parts of East Asia and South America.) NTSC did not incorporate color into its specifications until 1953, and the first color broadcast took place in fall 1954. Color televisions did not become common until the 1970s. In fact, black-and-white TVs were mass-produced well into the early ’80s. Color TVs were too expensive and didn’t work well enough for most people to buy in the late ’50s and ’60s, and at that time many broadcasts were still in black-and-white. So in general, most TVs in the ’50s and ’60s were monochromatic (black-and-white) More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_telev… For future reference, this question would have been better suited for Consumer Electronics > TVs than th
