[oldtvman]

I agree with a lot of things you guys say, but for those of you who lived way back when, the distractions that exist today were non-existant back then, most families had one television the world outside television at the time was the movies, radio and a few events such as local sporting events, but for most of us kids we were left up to what we could invent to do, so I say that is why color back then for me was such an amazing event. Sure I watch HDTV, but there is also dvd's, computers, 500 channel cable systems, and so on and so on. I guess the magnitude of color back then with the intense hard core engineering was a marvel for the time.