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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
So it was hard for a family in 1974-1978 to get a second tv set in the house?
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Depends most people by the early 60s had a monochrome set. If in the early 70s a family bought it's first color TV and didn't or couldn't trade in their existing monochrome set then they would keep that older monochrome set as a second TV.
There were probably also cases where a family started with a cheap mid 50s portable someone had before marriage, upgraded to a 21-23" monochrome console a few years later when married and on better financial ground, and a few years later in the late 60s early 70s upgraded to color without ever trading anything in and ended up with 3 working TVs.
Some color sets were cheap IIRC in 1968 a base model portacolor was around 200 and the cheapest roundy (a metal cabinet Philco) was something like 50-100 more than the Portacolor.
Working class folks back then often were craftsmen and tinkerers and in addition to the option of buying second hand TV (trade ins, sets elderly people going in to nursing homes were selling off etc) they also might know enough to take a set from the trash and fix it to use as a second set... Many members here got their first set off the curb and made it work.