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In which country did they try to prevent the development of color television due to fears of social stratification?

When color televisions appeared in Israel in the 1970s, the government saw them as an unjustified luxury that contributed to social stratification and instructed TV channels to continue broadcasting in black and white and to remove the color component from imported programs and films.

To do this, the so-called sync pulse was suppressed at television stations, due to which a special module in television receivers interpreted color as noise and removed it. However, engineers immediately came up with an "anti-suppressor" device, which was sold in stores for 10% of the price of a new TV. The inconvenience was that about once every 15 minutes the color disappeared, and the audience had to twist a special knob to restore it.

A few years later, officials found that the vast majority of viewers had bought anti-suppressants and lifted the ban.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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