[Westlander]

Recall the 'tube testing machine' stores would have? The add on box to get maybe one UHF channel on your solid wood cabinet VHF b/w tv? The multi color plastic film you'd tape to your tube to make it look like color? And we survived.

[SatinDoll]

My parents didn’t buy a TV - then it was black and white - until 1957. Yes, I remember the tube testers. And my grandfather had one of the first color televisions made, I beleive it was by Motorola.

Grandpa liked to watch baseball on TV. The fields and areas inside the diamonds were, well, sort of green. It wasn’t until 1960 that TVs really captured green all that well!

[tet68]

RE: colored film

As kids we used to watch a program called Rinky Dink
that was probably the first example of interactive media,
you could send off and get a plastic film that you’d
put over the screen and then using some kind of grease
pencil you could play games on the program like connect
the dots, word games, etc.

Yes, I’m older than saran wrap.