Thank you so much pal! Hope I did your country's TV history justice!

@@AdamMartyn You certainly did, possiblity the best document of how it all begun that I have seen in some time, especially the use of specific era accurate footage.

I’d be very intrigued to hear the angle story 😄

I'm amazed that they could use the phrase "shut up!" on TV back then without the censors stepping in.

They sold b&w TVs into the 2000s.

@@xaverlustig3581 I find that trully remarkable. Do we mean new never previously owned, or used from a VAT registered business?

@@keancv No new ones, but the ones you could buy after 2000 were small portable ones.

@@xaverlustig3581 big or small still ticks the box. With Tube TVs there isn't room for one with a huge screen like with modern TVs.---I'd just love to know a genuine real reason anybody would want one even back then. I doubt that there was a sudden increase in the Timex 1000/ ZX81 popularity.

@@keancv If you wanted a really really cheap portable, or tv at all. Or as a monitor for a b&w CCTV camera.

I say by the mid 70ies color tv manufacturing had matured a lot since the 60ies, and indeed was rapidly moving away from vacuum tubes into transistors which in turn lowered price and improved reliability. And i imagine also for TV stations, they had much more options and cheaper too, better smaller more reliable cameras, etc for the same reason.

I guess it's the expense of making the switch, in that you need to throw out just about everything, cameras, mixing desks, editing studios. Oh, and sets having to be repainted, especially for children programs. I'm glad to have been born into the world of colour, I remember the small black and white tv that my parents go when they married. Funny I don't recall any of the programs on it from back then.

​@@Ivan-bw6iw That's crazy! The only B&W set I remember having was a small portable TV that I'm sure was meant for camping, but we never did that and frankly I don't remember when we got it and this was in the mid-200s that I remember first having it, it's still in the basement last I checked (I wonder if it's digital?🤔 Because otherwise it won't pick up anything in N. America!). I think back in the 1990s - that's when I use to live on Colombia (the country) - there was a nextdoor neighbor that had one or at least I think that's what I remember, it wasn't their main set as it was in one of the bedrooms.

Thank you Simon! Fingers crossed 🤞

It did for me in Australia. A very accurate and intersting presentation. Might add that Rank Arena was a widely used colour TV in the early years here.

ah,good ol religion, it knows a lot about negative influences

In Italy 56 too, with winter Olympics in Cortina with a huge outside broadcast coverage

PAL-D CCIR system B only got ratified in 1968, and ABCB mandated it in 1972 so not that long for a better colour system

Yes, way better than NTSC which is dubded Never Twice The Same Colour!

Thanks pal! It's fascinating how different nations introduce colour differently! I'd certainly look into it, depends on how much footage is available! I got lucky in that there was an abundance for Australia!

Also on KZfaq is HSVs colour test transmission from the Royal Melbourne Show in 1968, featuring children's television veteran Happy Hammond and future cabaret and recording artist Jamie Redfern.

Glad it sparked the nostalgia!

Cheers Phil!

Really glad you found it an engaging watch my love 🥰❤ it's a great transition isn't it! And Aunty Jack is a character that's hard to forget 😂

@@AdamMartyn for sure!!

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it!

That makes two of us

Thanks pal!

I was amazed to see it. As an Australian teen in the seventies I had never seen the centre photo used in Australia. Seems the higher numbers of UK expats in Western Australia, where the card is from, may have influenced the use. The Australian test patterns, as they were called here, on KZfaq do not show the girl and clown you. Watched the Aunty Jack transition show. But just on a black and white TV. Anything from those performers back then was a must see for me.

Cheers pal!

Thank you Chris! Really glad you're enjoying the videos! More will be coming 😊

@@AdamMartyn Thank you. I binged the BBC 2 idents videos recently. I loved how interesting they were...

@@AdamMartyn I adored the reviews of the BBC 2 idents from the 90s.. they were great bits of Art.. I loved Dog and Car most.

Thank you!

Thank you Aidan! Glad you liked it 😊

Thanks Roger! I'd love to cover some other countries history with TV! Just depends on the available info out there!

@@AdamMartyn This is great, BTW about that, there is a really good book that I found, it's called Transnational Television In Europe: Reconfiguring Global Television Network By Jean K. Chalaby, and it's a book about the history of international satellite channels since the 1980s until 2010 (that is the year the book was published) But it's a very compelling read, it's available on Amazon Kindle for just £2, so it's full of ideas for future videos, I can't recommend it enough Adam!

The whole 1974-75 Ashes series was broadcast in colour as TV stations were allowed to do outside broadcasts in colour. We had a colour TV and saw the whole series, all six tests. Made me a cricket fan. Lillee and Thomson in full cry

Thank you! 😁

Still expensive in 1975 Australia but real prices and quality had improved by then. Much more affordable than black and white sets when launched in 1956. It was common the for people to watch by looking through shop windows at night or lots of visiting, usually invited, of friends with TV. People did cave in the expense rapidly though.

The US went all-color in primetime with the beginning of the 1966-1967 season in September '66. Daytime... took longer.

PAL was a solution to a real problem existing video links and transmission chains had gain & phase inequalities with PAL using alternative 0/180 phases the inequalities were balanced out

We used CCIR B. That is, 625 line, negative video modulation, FM sound. Basically the same as British 625 line but VHF and 5.5 MHz sound I.F. rather than UHF and 6.0 MHz. UHF services did come later though.

405 lines was basically just the British Isles. The rest of the world was on either 625 or 525.

@@paulkennedy8701 Interestingly, New Zealand did have a 405 line service briefly in the late 1950s. I think very few sets for it were sold though, NZ adopting 625 line soon afterwards.

Correction: I can't tell you how Alan Hulme pronounced his name, but Robert Menzies was definitely pronounced as in this video. He did not use the Scottish pronunciation.

@@paulkennedy8701 one ABC News reader did famously transition from Menzies to the Scottish way. Prime Minister Menzies was also disparigingly referred to as Ming the Merciless. From the Flash Gordon serials.

@@johnd8892 An _ABC_ newsreader did that? I thought the corporation had a department whose job was to ascertain and ensure the correct pronunciations of proper names. Yes, his nickname displayed a knowledge of the traditional pronunciation, even though his name didn't use it.

@@paulkennedy8701 newsreader Bruce Menzies for many years then one day we heard him on ABC Radio saying Bruce Mingus from the on. Recall being the newsreader on the then flagship 7pm radio long news bulletin. Less often on TV. Quite a stir for a while.

@@johnd8892 Oh. I see. I thought you were saying he took to deliberately mispronouncing the PM's name in news reports about that gentleman. That would be completely unprofessional. But changing how he pronounces his _own_ name. That's fine. No argument against it if it's a standard realisation of the name. Unusual but not unheard of. Can be done pretentiously or to make a break with the past or due to a new-found awareness or to wind up your family. There's an Australian composer called Philip Bračanin, originally /bɹə'kænən/, later /'bratʃənin/. (He may have added the kvačica to his "c" at the same time.)

I don't think it ever got screened over here!

@@AdamMartyn Aunty Jack was a great aussie show, I could share this show to my friends.

Never shown, unfortunately. Being in black and white would’ve counted against it as by then most British TV was in colour (bar repeats, old films, and regional news). I think it would’ve definitely been a cult hit with young people, though, being in the Python and Goodies vein of humour.

@@NickSamon you better do, unless you want to lose your arms...

Digital television is simply a digital version of the old standards. It is significantly better, but the old standards still apply. The new standards have their own names, but in very basic terms, they are a digital version of their predecessors

@@CrazyTobster Aside from using the same bandwidth (aka channels) not very. For transitioning most ATSC tuners could also do NTSC, i guess maybe they still do but you don't have NTSC broadcasts anymore... Unlike my country where it still going. There is a "test" digital ISDB-T broadcast which is now a decade old, but despite what they said in the past, they never did an analog shutdown and to this day NTSC exists with a few channels of the UHF used for ISDB-T. But i only watch internet and lost interest in TV. By now even the countries that went digital are preparing for the next upgrade, which is 4k and h265 codec, maybe 8k; but i can obtain such content now now online instead of waiting politicians forever. Europe went with DVB and most PAL/SECAM countries went with DVB. China did their own and only Cuba adopted it for political reasons. ISDB-T is Japan and most of south America and some few Asian countries. Plenty of info in wikipedia and tests here in youtube; notably Peru testing the main 3 digital formats from a moving car or inducing interference with common household items next to a receiver to see how they each fare; will quickly explain to you why they went with ISDB-T. Oh and Japan dropping all licensing fees. ISDB-T was designed to acomodate all the world, it can use the other bandwidths (6/7/8mhz) but for the same historical reasons, a world standard didn't happen, we just got a different split. In perfect conditions (stationary, pointing to the broadcast) all look the same, the difference is when you start moving or interfering the signal, clearly Japan did the best one, and its the only one that still allows indoor antennas and of course moving at any speed in cars or trains which the others just can't do, maybe the Chinese for being such a late comer probably copied what they wanted from the others, but never seen tests of it. That test signal, I'm literally using a 1m wire shaped like an 8 to receive it just fine indoors.

1978. Infamously, among the requirements of the Eurovision Song Contest by the 70s was to broadcast in color. RTE did not have this ability in 1972 so the show was produced "with assistance from the BBC".

@@stanwbaker TVE in Spain did something similar as well when they hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 - they had to rent color cameras from ARD in Germany because they had none of their own at the time.

@Mark Jackson The UK Wimbledon colour transmission was in 1967.

@@stanwbaker Same in France in the early 70s. ORTF would have to produce European Broadcasting Union shows like Jeux Sans Frontieres in colour, but showed them in France in black and white until 1975.