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

[Electronic M]

In the states hybrids were rare till the end of the 60's....A decent number of sets had 1-2 transistors between 1962-68 but most all were majority tube or majority SS. Most all mostly SS sets prior to 1968 were portable monochrome sets. SS sets were typically twice as expensive as their based tube equivalent models.

Really it was all economy of scale...In the early days color sets were expensive and little was on. they tried to keep the price the same or make it cheaper over time, and as the number of receivers increased programming increased, and so did demand eventually demand reached economies of scale that put color in a competitive position with monochrome, and then color took off.
When the late 60's color boom (/tv shortage) hit most color sets were all tube and all sets except GE portacolors were deltagun.

If you have need x employees in a factory, they are making 10 sets a day when it would be possible for them to make 100 or 1000 what happens to TV set price when consumers decide they don't want enough for 10 a day anymore, but more like 100 or 1000 a day?