My word, this takes me back. I can remember in great detail the day my parents got their first colour tv set, they'd had the same old b/w box with a tiny screen since they got married in the 1950s, it was 1973 when they finally got a colour set, a rented curtain-burner from Rediffusion. Television sets were still quite expensive at that time, a new one cost a hefty chunk of your wages, so it was more economical for many people to rent one. Looking back it was a piece of old junk, terribly unreliable, but the day it arrived it was like a doorway to a new world. Vibrant colour! Things you'd only ever seen as old grainy monochrome suddenly looked new and real, even surreal. I was awestruck. For several hours I just sat and stared, entranced, at any old nonsense simply because it was in colour; even Everbore Farm and a public information film about household safety. I was particularly happy when Star Trek (TOS) came on that evening and I saw it in colour for the very first time (did not know that Orion slave girls were green until then.. )
Back then there were only three channels, tv transmissions went off in the afternoon for a few hours, and closed down completely well before midnight, although we were rarely allowed to stay up that late. So there wasn't a huge amount to watch to being with, and even then many programmes were older repeats made in black & white anyway.
Thanks for letting me relive that blast from the past, the tv being finally in colour but with nth to watch!
First color tv was in 1928 "The Baird Mechanical color system. Although the screen technology used was different from CRTs the color emulation was still compatible but a little pricey. Did Bethesda really think that having monochrome tv sets 150 years after the first color sets was Futuristic? Retro-style or not, it was sort of stupid.
i feel like they were gonna add tv shows, in diamond city everyone has a tv set up like they watch them, and we are able to turn them on in settlements. it feels like they thought about it or cut it but I'm sure someone would have found that evidence in the files.
Yeah, rocket ships, laser weapons and Frank Sinatra, the pinnacle of the human race, but TVs are all black and white for some reason, thanks for the fix.
In real life, the transition from black and white TVs to color wasn't an "all or nothing" thing. There was a time when both options were available to consumers with similar TV designs. That being said, this is a cool mod, but it doesn't really "fix a problem."
Call me crazy but this would be great as a standalone post-war Institute retextured TV. I held out hope that someone would make the vault 76 TV but hey.
Thanks... Since they actually existed in real life (albeit not in a commercially viable way) both Vault-Tec and the Institute could create it with little effort.
Simple continuity reason that up until Fallout 76 we didn't see color TVs: Fallout's universe either missed specific technological leaps, or got them much later than the real world. Among these things that were delayed in being, or were never invented include but are not limited to: The transistor, the integrated circuit, and the microchip(a product of both of the prior). The transistor and integrated circuit were required to make color TVs practical, efficient, have a reasonable sized, and most of all be affordable. So as a result color TVs were probably relatively rare luxury items, which were prohibitively expensive in Fallout's universe. As a result they also probably didn't have too much support in programming either. The fact that radio and holotape plays and shows were really popular still points to the idea that even black and white TVs were pretty expensive and hadn't reached full market saturation.
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Back then there were only three channels, tv transmissions went off in the afternoon for a few hours, and closed down completely well before midnight, although we were rarely allowed to stay up that late. So there wasn't a huge amount to watch to being with, and even then many programmes were older repeats made in black & white anyway.
Thanks for letting me relive that blast from the past, the tv being finally in colour but with nth to watch!
it feels like they thought about it or cut it but I'm sure someone would have found that evidence in the files.
Take it or leave it? Heck yeah I'll take it. The TV looks fantastic!
I held out hope that someone would make the vault 76 TV but hey.
Since they actually existed in real life (albeit not in a commercially viable way) both Vault-Tec and the Institute could create it with little effort.