Real Date of Australian Color Intro?

[NewVista]

Wikipedia states 1967 but system not approved until 1970s Labor Govt

[wa2ise]

Someone over at http://vintage-radio.com.au/default.asp?f=6 will know. That forum is the Aussie version of VideoKarma, though less traffic.

[NewVista]

Thanks for link

[AndrewM]

The information on that Wikipeadia link is misleading.

It does correctly state the official start date of colour as March 1 1975.

While colour transmissions occurred before this date they were not intended for large scale public viewing.

[NewVista]

How would New Zealanders feel now hearing "Australia beat them to Color"?

This is a Propaganda Porky worthy of Kim Jong-un.

[6GH8cowboy]

Amazing there was about a 15 year lag from the color heyday of the early 60s in the US to 1975 in another country. Wow.

[Carmine]

Couple interesting dates so far, if they can be believed...

Cuba: color in 1959, resumed in 1975!

North Korea has color TV for years before South Korea!?

Really makes you want to see some of the old sets in far-off nations that used NTSC color early on, when the US made color TV sets instead of simply drooling in front of them.

[AVeturri]

I really got a kick out of that color tv introduction list. How some countries did not have color TV until the 80s..is amazing to me.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

While [1967] colour transmissions occurred before this date they were not intended for large scale public viewing.

Not the commencement of service.
Someone needs to FIX that Wiki entry.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by NewVista

Not the commencement of service.
Someone needs to FIX that Wiki entry.

Anyone can, but be sure to quote a good reference to back up your edits, say a book about Aussie television, magazine article from the day, or newspaper. A reference good enough to use in a term paper in college. Maybe the Aussie FCC web page says something.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Couple interesting dates so far, if they can be believed...

Cuba: color in 1959, .

When you click the DATE, you can see ascending chronological order:
Cuba 1958, NTSC for instance.

Then there is the "1st PAL country: Australia June 1967
Wow, 2 Months ahead of Germany, inventor of PAL

[austvarchive]

Australia didnt get color until 1975

There were a few test transmissions done by ATV0 in the late 60's, but this was NTSC broadcast using a camera borrowed from the states - it would not have been viewable or compatible with any of the equipment


There were also color demos at the royal melbourne show around the same time, but these were closed circuit and not aired.

We were to go with PAL in 69/70 around the time the british did, but it was delayed and delayed by the government, until the official start date in early 1975.

Most videotape machines were color capable and some broadcasts prior to the official date were possibly color, but they got into trouble many times so were forced to kill the color signal at the transmitter.

There were however very few models of cameras prior to 1974 in australia, most cameras were still monochrome image orthicon models up until 75, most stations ordered in color cameras around 1974, and the release of the models used here usually co-incides with that date.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by AndrewM

Wikipeadia link is misleading.

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I suppose it could be easily edited, but I'm having way too much fun
with this Outrageous Antipodean Rodomontade

[colorfixer]

There's a number of statements online that cite Cuba having NTSC on CH12. Since they were supplied by RCA it wouldn't be inconceivable.

[Labrat]

Austvarchive mentions in his posting of 11 May 2013 that there were demonstrations of Colour Television at the Royal Melbourne Show in the early 1960's I saw my first colour TV there in about 1967. I would have been about eight at the time.

From memory, a single colour TV was set-up in the window of a building with people queuing up outside to view it. The crowd was immense. I was sitting on my dad's shoulders to see over the mass of people. After quite a long time, we got close enough to see the TV from a distance.

I still remember the single image that was being displayed on it at the time. There was a white building on a gentle up-hill slope, with a brilliant blue sky above, and the greenest of green lawn in front. This image is burnt into my memory so strongly because I couldn't believe that we had waited so long just to see a picture of a building.

Years later, I believe that this was a picture of Parliament house in Canberra. Perhaps there are others who were there who can give further information.

I guess this is what is called living history, because, I was there.

Wayne