Color Television was disappointing when first introduced?

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I don't know why U U.S.A. folks complained in the '50's and early '60's that a colour tv was 3-4 salaryes. If a "Telecolor" would cost only 3-4 slarayes, by 1989 unless 25% of the house holds would had had colour tvs (colour televison was introduced in Romania in 1983).