Colour TVs stole most of the limelight at last week’s radio and TV shows with manufacturers making an all out attempt to get sales moving against the tide of credit restrictions and somewhat alarming customer disinterest. That’s how a story starts in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 3rd 1969.
The story continues: Prices of British manufactured colour sets now range from around £230 for a 19 inch single standard to about £370 for a 25 inch dual standard receiver.
They could soon face stiff competition from the Japanese Mitsubishi group, whose distributors in the UK, Teletron, announced that they could have a set available by the end of the year selling at around £150.
If this set is a 19 inch model using a shadow mask tube, then the British manufacturers could be in trouble but, at this price, it seems most unlikely.
Sony already have a 13 inch single standard colour receiver available £200. It used a single Trinitron tube which, although producing an acceptable picture on a 13 inch screen would, it is generally agreed, be hard pushed to do so on a screen as large as 19 inches.
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