Why the color tv sets where so expensive at the beging?

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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Why in the early days the color tv sets where so expensive? It was becuase manufacturing cost where high (no printed boards, a lot of time to assamble the components, delta color picture tube where more expensive and harder to adjust) and that 1964 selling boom of color tv sets camed because by that time printed circuit borads and semiconductors camed into tv set, making them more easy to be manufactured?

In this country, producing volume reduces cost of manufacturing!
Before the mid-60's color boom, there was only one network that had a lot of color programing.
Most of the TV buyers, were still buying B/W sets in the late 50's, early 60's.