[ceebee23]

Folks, the reason colour was delayed in OZ was that the government didn't want to spend money to update its own broadcasting network and the development of improved colour systems in the form of SECAM and PAL meant that someone had to decide on standards. We had colour test from the late 50s.

When colour did arrive the take up rate was phenomenal. Within 12 months of the introduction of colour 65% plus of homes had colour television.

This was the fastest colour take up anywhere and far greater than expected.

I suspect because the the difference between colour and black and white was so great and out television stations were broadcasting 100% in colour and of course by 1975 all the bugs had been ironed out in the sets themselves. Almost no sets released in Oz had tubes ...a few hybrids but most sets were 100% transistor or IC based.