TIL - B&W was switched to color TV by a button in a lot of countries. Australia, I don't know what you were up to.

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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 67d (1 reply)

Et voici, le colour

The Germans demonstrating the button wasn’t hooked up to anything.

plyth@feddit.org · 0 pts · 67d

People could have noticed already then that SPD politicians weren't the ones making the decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Brandt

RollyJeho@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 67d (1 reply)

Well, we must admit that Australia had made the least boring color enabling TV show.

lemmylommy@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 67d

German Color tv is so efficient it turns on before the button is pressed.

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 67d (2 replies)

France. So chill.

halfapage@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 67d (1 reply)
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felykiosa@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 67d

La rance

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 61d

"And now, for something very slightly different."
cut to wide shot of cleese staring indifferently at the camera, an anticlimactic pop sounds as the picture changes to colour