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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Never have understood why it took y'all SO long to get "Colour TV" down there...Or so many other places...It's not like Oz was some 3rd world shithole w/no infrastructure or anything like that..And you see articles/mags like this, & you'd think they just invented the wheel...By '72, color TV was a reasonably mature product, no big surprises left in it, except figuring out how to make them cheaper & cheaper....
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I think it has been mentioned before, but color research was handicapped by marauding bands of kangaroos, which were strongly attracted by their hyper-sensitivity to the combination of scan rate and color test bars.
These rabid kangaroos would often use their strong feet to kick-in the doors of research labs when the engineers were away consuming comically huge cans of beer. Once inside, prototype sets were ruined, setting research back again and again. Below is a rare photograph captured by a brave security guard...
By the early 70s, it became legal to shoot rabid kangaroos and sell the meat to the newly established American steakhouse known as "Outback".
Once the kangaroo population began to decline around the research labs, things began to progress as normal once again.