I feel like such luxuries would have been few and far between back then.
Remember, color tv sets were expensive, hence motel ads would say "color tv" in the 80s given it was still a selling point.
I can picture a color tv in a communal room, or waiting room, but someone's individual room?
I'm not buying it .
1971 yes
1981 no , color tv was pretty much ubiquitous in society.
Color tv's were not a luxury in the 80's. Born in 75, I grew up in the 80's and color tv's were already a mainstream thing.
Now I don't remember visiting a hospital during that period, though. It's possible that some hospitals would still have some old black and white tv's in their rooms.
Agree. The 80s is not the 50s.
shareYou sound young. Colour TV was not a "luxury" in 80s.
We don't care if you're buying it.
Classic YDF, Young Dumb Fuck syndrome. These are the same people who think all video/films were of crappy quality before the 2010s ("whoa, this movie from the 70s looks so new! why grainy tho? what are analog film?!"). Some don't even understand how videos existed before Youtube... thinking that upload dates equate to release dates. "whoa, Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was released in 2009! so long ago!!" Yes, comments like this actually exist.
shareI think this is a fair point.
Yes, it's true that color TVs were common and yes you could expect larger sets to be color even in a hospital. However the smaller box like portable TVs (the ones with a handle on top and long radio like antenna) were almost always black & white affairs.
The color versions of these devices - popularised by Sony - did not appear until much later in the decade...
By the eighties those little TVs were few. They would likely be limited to college dorms or young adults just starting out. Most families would have a color set. Most TVs would still use antennae (though cable was quite common as well), but the antennae would be on the roof and connected by a cable.
shareI thought at first you may have found a plot hole but in 1981, color TV was standard
shareIf a motel had a "color TV" sign in the 1980s, all that meant was that it had been there for years and they were too lazy to get rid of it.
shareabout 100% actually
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