color televisions

Non-monochrome broadcast receivers

Color televisions are television sets that display images in full color rather than black and white.

The technology became standard in American homes during the 1960s and 1970s, replacing earlier monochrome sets.

The term now sounds dated—nearly all televisions have been color for decades—but persists in historical contexts and among older speakers: My grandparents got their first color television in 1968.

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luminance · PAL · plasma · saturation · picture tube · technicolor · screen · big screen · led · NTSC · pixels · TV dinners · CRT · test pattern · resolutions · golden age · channel surfing · intensity

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display technology

color televisionsblack-and-white televisions

Early broadcast receivers without color

radio · silent films · phonographs

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G