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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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Well, i think the main reason is that domestic TV manufacturers were lobbying against the introduction of color TV, I don't know much about the Australian electronics industry, but the Italian industry's way was to build fancy modern cabinets around their bulky decade-old handwired B/W tube chassis... they wanted to spend none of their money on R&D, and they saw color TV as a threat rather than an opportunity
So when color TV finally came, they were blown away by Philips, Telefunken, Grundig and so on... today, the only surviving Italian TV manufacturer is Mivar.