Quick little correction for this video. Vault 76 wasn't one of the first vaults constructed. What I meant to say is that it was one of the vaults displayed to the public in such an open manner. The debut was on the tercentenary of the US (2076), which even further justifies the claim that there would have been a coloured tv broadcast for that event :) Thank you to Randal Smith for correcting me! Together we are a smarter Fallout community :)
LoneVaultWanderer It's funny that you say that because civilians as far as a we know didn't have access to color TV's so that broadcast being in color seems odd. The color TV's instances that you showed were High-tech shit in Mariposa military base meaning that most likely the primitive color TV's were only for military use. Not even the rich, so once again, it's VERY unlikely civilians aired programs in color because absolutely no one had color TV's in their houses. So, what's my theory? Bethesda just neglected the lore again
Bethesda had consistently kept with the lore in this area throughout FO3 and 4, and made a point of displaying the colors on the test pattern screen when showing the tease. I disagree that this is something as simple as Bethesda just "ignoring the lore".
The Ninjaneer Yes, but they had consis tell screwed the lore of other things. So what keeps them from doing it now with color TV's? Although to be honest, the color standby thing might tip something off. I just hope they at least explain why there's that in civilian hands. Not just leave it out there as if it was normal, that's all I ask
I think the video went over why it was NOT in civilian hands. What if this was a prerecorded speech recorded JUST for the Vault 76 dwellers? Sure, maybe news crews got a B&W recording for "civilians", but Vault-Tec recorded a color version for their own purposes, like having it play on loop/on demand in the vault during special occasions? I can't say anything for the lore in general, all I can say is that I am looking forward to seeing more on what the game entails during their E3 presentation.
Watermelon Monsterman Really? I got my revenge by getting some bald fellow to kill the owner. It was of mutual benefit. Something about his wife, but I hadn't asked much more of it.
color tvs were avaible and prototyped for ages ( before ww2 ) in our world , so it makes sense for fallout 76 to feature them ,they exist but are not popular
It makes sense. It took much, much longer for the hipster movement to come to Fallout America. Color TVs were too mainstream, so they stuck with black and white. Thankfully the bombs fell before they could do any more damage.
B&W Tvs were just stupid cheap to produce. More obtainable to the average person. Heck. You could even make a BW Tv to color using a spinning disk of colored plstic synced to the CBS Color BroadCast Signal
tylerrip11 that would be reiquiere little tecnology but would be terribly expensive for a quality tv, it was vaccuum tubes that cheapned tvs and then transistors in the case of color Tvs (used to eliminate ntsc artifacts )
Diego Antonio Rosario Palomino no it doesnt make sense, it would make it possible, but not any sense as precedence dictates that tvs are BW in the fallout universe.
The sign for E3 Bethesda have put up also shows the typical vault boy mascott going from black and white to colour. So the colours certainly do have some significance in this game.
DJ May - I think he means it sucks because it didn’t resemble New Vegas, which is ridiculous . (But why the fuck don’t they do NV 2? It’s not that hard to figure out lol.)
I feel potentially the reason colou tv is absent post Fallout 2 is because technology eventually breaks through usage and 200 years after (year fallout 3 is set in) any more tvs were likely produced is enough time to see the 10% or so population of tvs that are colour to have eventually broken and for parts not be available to fix them so the fact that Fallout 76 is most likely going to be prequel to all other fallout games this has a factor is the colour TVs being present Anyway Top Video Lone
Before I even watch the video let me say this, the radiation King TVs in Fallout 3 had a switch to turn on color I honestly can't find the link right now but if you Google it you can find pictures
You are correct, but those were monochrome displays I believe. The "color" switch likely swaps it between black/white and a single color, then the "tint" switch changes the color/hue like how you can change the color on a pipboy. This is why I didn't mention it in the video, as we were analysing full color displayed tvs :)
LoneVaultWanderer oh thanks I wasn't trying to undercut you or anything I don't want to come across that way I just seen a post about this and actually had Googled a couple pictures of the radiation King TV sets actually to look for myself and just wanted to see if I could predict what the video was about.
Hey don't stress buddy it's okay! I absolutely don't mind being corrected or questioned on Fallout lore. I certainly don't make myself out to know everything :) Thank you for watching my video!
Yes quite serious in fact. If the game is set in part of WV. WV while rich in coal does not have any military base which would have been targeted i.e. no bombs. While yes I realize that nucular fallout would have been carried on the wind and rain and caused damage to the area it would not be as devastating as it is in areas where the bombs did fall. However, I would expect a more barren dead landscape on the WV boarders of Pa, Va and Md where the bombs did fall.
vaultgirl145 yeah, I think your right, the most eastern area of the map which is closest to the 4 cities that got bombed should be super bleak, and the western side more lively, but I hope it's limited, because in lore, apparently it is not safe to be out for long periods of time
From the trailer it takes place ~25 years after the war. According to FO lore after the bombs there was about a decade of nuclear winter. Most all vegetation would have been wiped out at that point even in places like WV due to the NW even if no bombs directly dropped. So about 15 yrs, fighting the fallout, for new growth? I wouldn't expect much green honestly.
So i just remember that when you vist the hubris comic set they have a color light test. So i think we could of relized that there was some color programming in the game. This is a great video lone!
Or it was possible to have been for effect in Black and white as varies colored clothes and varies colored make-up was used to help things like shading and such to make films and shows look good
One thing that was not mentioned is that in Fallout 3, when you enter simulations (just Anchorage? Can't recall if that's the only one in color), it's in color. That would also indicate colorized screens existing, if these simulations are viewed through a headset. Another thing worth pointing out is that a majority of the televisions we encounter in Fallout are not powered on, are broken, or just displaying static screens. With that in mind, we conceivably could have encountered color televisions without ever knowing it. As for colorized screens on terminals, it would seem the technology for that most likely did not exist or was extremely high end.
Bethesda generally does kinda respect previous lore and leaves links to past games, it's just the minor oversights and retcons that people get mad about, despite them generally fitting in with the lore sensibly.
Dead Fox If I remember correctly the retcons were kinda minor in that game too, but tons of characters talk mostly about Fallout 1-2. Only things I remember that was strange was the Enclave being implied to be national with bases in Illinois when previous games state they got booted off the west coast and went straight to DC, Robco being named after a guy instead of the word robot, and Big MT being responsible for all kinds of stuff nobody knew about.
for me the colored tv is just one more sign that they are making Fallout 76 with a 1970ths atmosphere, even though the game is a prequal, looks like they are going to make everything there like we were at 1976. For me the main proof of that fact are the followings: - Jon Denver song from the 70ths - Fallout "76" is a reference to a year in the 70ths - Colored tv was common among the public in the early 70ths.
I am 95% sure fallout 76 is set in space. Theres Jangles, the spaceship, the stars in the sign ups and the hotel ad. That would also explain the fact that they dont show the outside, (as we dont see it before we get abducted), and the fact they mention Vault 76 in Zeta. The Take me Home Country Roads is actually a link to going home to vault 76 (Since bethesda vaults have the big "Welcome Home" at the entrance). Also, Bio-med gel, the thing which helps robobrains, was made by aliens. Not only that, but the Giddy-up Butter cup somehow has to be linked to the fact its the alien's favorite thing.
Here’s something I always kept note of: Back in 1998 when the FO2 trailer came out, it featured an entirely in-color Civil Defense film intermixed with gameplay. This was the first sign of color TV existing in Fallout to me. In fact, the original 1950’s clips they were using aired in B&W, and I have no idea who later colored them (interplay? Black Isle?). Either way, thought that was an interesting thing to keep in mind: th-cam.com/video/5fr1KDYGkeo/w-d-xo.html
Great video, fun to learn the lore on Color TVs, this Real World game has some in-depth lore. still the most common misconception in the community is that fallout was the "1950s" and not the 2070s, things still happen over there after the 50s like a Moon landing and ending segregation, and they even had hippies.
Yet they stick to listening to music from 120+ years prior to the bombs falling. It's one of the more glaring issues with the games lore in my opinion. Also the need for the same old bulky looking tech isn't really justified. People redesign and reinvent and innovate all the time,(could you imagine 120+ years of 1950's everything?!) throughout history. I'm talking fashion,art,music, technology etc. Human's in the Fallout universe just seem to be stuck in a 1950's cultural vacuum. All for the sake of "retro-futurism." Fallout's or Beth's take on retro futurism is too tame and too stuck in that 1950's aesthetic. It's just so damn distracting.
art-Santiago Avida was an painter, along with we "seen" tons of new movies and comics. Artruical also changes too, look at the Hi-Tech Building in Voston. music-Vera Keyes is a singer with a catalog of songs (this one you really have to chuck up to cost/efficiency there, I'm still blown away that they had Magnolia in 4, hiring Lynda Carter to write 5 songs) technology-an whole line of robots, AI programming, energy weapons, rocket engines to mars, terrafroming devices, the creation of the transistor at some point (really muddy when), son on progression-civil rights, hippies, so on did happen. Culture may be 50s based but it's not stuck in a Vacuum, and it's not the first time in human history that we didn't throw out everything every decade, i mean look at Ancient Egypt.
Gerald I'm not sure if you understood my point. Theres a painter robobrain sure, and we got to see movie posters and comic book covers but that shit is stuck in 1950's aesthetic. Why? I know we finally got some post war music, Im REALLY glad we did, but it's for whatever reason stuck in that vacuum. They can't break away from it. Where's the originality? I mean they make stupid amounts of money from their games we all know they can afford to budget in original post war music. Their tech is all muddled in 1950's aesthetic. Bulky and clunky just for the sake of it. Wasnt saying they didnt make new shit, just that its all stuck in that 50's vacuum. Its all too 50's. I don't believe we would've stuck to that aesthetic for that long just because some component wasnt invented early on. People constantly redesisgn and reshape shit and as far music goes, why would the world be listening to the inkspots or Roy Brown in 2077? Also what the fuck is up with this obsession with atomic fallout themed music? Its all so on the nose that it just ends up being distracting to me.
And i'm saying having the 50's aesthetic isn't the same as being "stuck in", the culture was still functioning and advancing, a culture doesn't have to have new skins every decade (hell ours been defaulting back to 80s for nostalgia). as for the atomic fallout themed music, i'll give you that one, someone at Bethesda is trying a bit too hard there.
Gerald Theres a reason why so many people look at me dumbfounded when I tell them the world of Fallout didnt end in the 1950's and I can't blame them. Bethesda went overboard with the whole 1950's aesthetic. I understand that the Fallout universe made social progress and invented new things but it's just all so damn tied to that 50's look and feel that it ends up feeling weird and not believeable. Like there was a sudden stop in creating new things. Could you imagine if we suddenly stoped redesigning stuff? I mean you'd have to choose a stopping point and go from there but just imagine how bizarre thatd be. We all use bulky loud beige pcs and beepers and giant tube tv's , and monochrome cellphones casette players for music and VCR etc. Another thing is the lack of making shit safe. It ties in to the 1950's thing of "what the fuck were they thinking?!" But its also a reason why shit gets redesigned. You dont really see that here, for the sake of hammering in that 1950's vibe. I mean its a staple of the series but it also goes agaisnt how we do things in real life.
Why hasn't anyone thought that this game is set with a 70's vibe instead of a 50's vibe? I mean the song in the trailer was released in the 70's. The colored TV screen, the color scheme for the furniture and environment fit the era and the posters on the wall and game itself mentions the number 70. Call me crazy but I think i'm onto something.
I still think that it takes place in an alternate universe where culture stopped in the 70s. Mainly because the song in the trailer was released in 1971 and the technology in the game looks more advanced than the previous games.
Honestly confused as to why someone would dislike this video. He literally just gave us a history lesson. It was interesting and weighs as a very likely possibility for why we see color in the trailer. So that one person that disliked the video...I hope a deathclaw steals your bottle cap collection
I think you're falling into the trap of thinking of "pseudo-fifties" Fallout as the actual fifties. It might be reasonable for color televisions to be rare in the 1950s when they were developed, but it seems unlikely they would remain rare 120 years later. Judging from the images you presented, I posit that color television was common, but color broadcasts were not. Even events recorded in color were broadcast in b/w. Possibly due to the heavy military use of the airwaves and limitations on broadcasting licenses?
I thought the reason might be as simple as monochrome means single-player and multi-color means multi-player. Thanks for putting the effort into sharing this aspect of the mystery that is Fallout 76.
I'm sorry if my comment made it seem as if multi-player was confirmed. I only meant that I was guessing multi-color might mean multi-player. My apologies. This may be a false alarm, but we will have to wait until Bethesda reveals more.
I did a google search of images for please stand by. The only images you find of the please stand by screen in multi color are Bethesda's. This matches my memory as a child. I only ever saw the please stand by screen in black and white. However, when the please stand by screen was commonly in use I only had access to a black and white television set. I cannot say definitively that it was never broadcast in multi-color but I never saw it in color and apparently neither has google.
Besides the color TV I was also curious about “take me home country road” that came out in 71 does that fit the lore of fallout? I thought all other music in the game was from the 50s, 60s
The most recent real-life music featured in a Fallout game to this day is "In the Shadow of the Valley", wich was made in 1998, in New Vegas. It isn't about the time period, it's about the theme and how it fits. Personnally, I find that all those rockabilly songs in Fallout 4 were much less "Fallout-friendly", even thought they are closer to the 50's than the one I mentioned. "Country Roads", here, even thought I, I'll admit, was unsure about it the first time I saw the trailer, to me totally fits what seems to be the setting and the general tone of Fallout 76.
Actually a lot of Bioshock Infinite's plot revolve around portals and time paradox. It is actually explained in the game via voxophones that Fink's brother (if I remember correctly) heared music from the future coming out of portals, and remade it in a 1910s fashion so he could be perceived as a musical genius.
Yeah, the pip-boy in fallout 3 and new Vegas were model 3000. Fallout 4 looked like a different version of the model 3000. The one seen in Fallout 76 is a model 2000.
Another point to add is that electronics up into the 1980s and 1990s often used crystal oscillators for color calibration. If these oscillators were not calibrated, after a decade or two their color would start to be slightly off and after many years without calibration their signal would lack color information. It's quite possible that many of the displays we see in Fallout games were once color units but centuries of disrepair are making more and more become black and white. Taking place just a couple decades after the war, it makes sense for crystal-based color calibration to still be mostly functional while hundreds of years later only well-maintained displays can still display color.
Wow, finally some in-depth and actually fresh analysis. Thank you! Too many people are now getting obsessed about multiplayer and other unconfirmed leaks. Really nice to see something new :).
You deserve a fuck-ton more subs mate. Appreciate your content. Peace from Brisvegas! The other thing we as wanderers in this amazing world have to remember every terminal we hack or look at in the FO3&4 versions of the game take place many hundreds of years later...i.e. there is no one 'broadcasting' in colour anyways..whereas you quite rightly point out this colour standard and colour promo vid was most likely all the go when Vault 76 was being promoted on the networks prior to the bombs dropping in 2077. I dare say the Overseer in Vault 76 probably had many colour recordings from Vault Tec that were to be aired regularly during their stay inside the facility, many propaganda films for the inhabitants of V76 to watch as the 20-25yrs rolled by. Many dying, many new borns growing up on the info feed from Vault Tec and no doubt they were well a truly primed for the ' Unlocking' of the Vault on Reclamation Day. I think the game is going to be so exciting from the standpoint that it is so early...its before the BOS, its before the NCR and all the other factions. Hell , how long does it take to make a ghoul?...will their be mutants of ANY kind...?? Its certainly going to take every Lone wanderer, Soul survivor, Courier, Initiate, Chosen One & Warrior...ect out of their comfort zone that's for sure.
I think in the end of fo4 the main character goes to West Virginia to go see his or her brother or sister to give them some far harbour and nuka world stuff that would explain no one is in vault 76 and that the pipboy 3000s were gone and that the pip boy 2000 time display were on some spiny stuff and that was the last date of the spiny thing is when the trailer was shot
Cinema had film in colour even earlier than that, early film was ‘tinted’ by hand and the first film / movie was shot in colour as early as 1918 - I think the main issue was finding a way to send a colour signal and have a receiver that could decode and display the image...
Part of why I love Fallout is because I'm an older guy and first learned to repair electronics when tube-type audio/video were still in wide use. Let me tell you, it's a whole different world building/repairing tube-type electronics, almost voodoo compared to solid state. Color TVs in particular were truly odd beasts in color, the complexity and power requirements were orders of magnitude more than their B&W or monochrome counterparts. Fallout is so great because they draw on such fundamental realities to create their fantasy world. The devil is in the details, as they say.
What if colored TVs were extremely pricy, only available to the wealthy. If so, then Vault 76 could be home to the wealthiest or most powerful people in Country.
That makes more sense than anything I’ve read. With all the military spending, taxes would be very high, meaning very small homes and few consumer goods for the middle class. I’ve thought about that on cars as well; with relatively few sold, there’s less pressure to change styling. Only a commie would change the style or buy a color TV instead of war bonds, comrade.
CSR Swazzy Think Soviet Bloc nations. If owning a car - any car - is a rare honor, then tempting people with new styles and features isn’t necessary. More to the point, there’s no profit to pay for redesigning and retooling. This would be reinforced if (because of petroleum shortages) cars used way more expensive and presumably longer lasting fusion engines. Your point would be more valid if cars in general are selling well, but one particular brand isn’t selling. Then that brand HAS to redesign, even if the cost is ruinous. We saw that in the American fifties as some brands, left behind in the growing auto sales boom, spent far more than they could afford to risk after the slow sales of the war years on modernization. Most of those brands went under because they could afford only one shot whereas companies like Chrysler and Chevrolet and Ford, having profited from lucrative military contracts, had the profit for continual modernization. But poorer countries like Italy had much slower changes in style and technology during the same period.
Secondary note, the red Solo Cup shown in the trailer was not invented until the 1970s and the decor of the room we are shown definitely has a 70s vibe to it. Perhaps this game is more 70s themed than 50s themed? Don’t know for sure, but cool to think about. Edit: also “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver (the song from the trailer) was released in 1971.
The transistor in fallout I believe exist as it is referenced by Proctor Quinlan in Fallout 4. I think he was talking about a transistor radio. It could be that maybe the transistor was developed way later and was harder to manufacture in the Fallout universe.
For a little bit I was wondering why a vault even had a luxurious full color tv but yeah I suppose they did want to give the idea that these vaults were all a comfy luxury type of deal.
When I first saw the color, I immediately wondered if color television was present during the pre-divergence era. So I checked Wikipedia on May 28, and saw this very site page.
In Fallout 2, there was a time where you were able to talk to a enclave soldier on a computer and it was in color. Maybe by that logic, color tv was a strictly military/Strictly Local thing just like the T-60 suit power armor?
I was born in 1994 and my grandparents still had black and white TVs around their homes when I was growing up (my city dwelling grandparents also had color TVs), so it's not unreasonable to think that if color TV was relatively new in 2077 then most people would still be using black and white TVs.
Honestly it never really made sense to me why a culture who obv has advanced technology still watches tv in black and white. I get the whole 50's theme but if your driving around cars with a nuclear fusion engine youd think someone would of also had invented color tv lol.
You are the best Lone. I love your work. This video really shone a light on ome of Fallouts history, it's good to have an explanation on those colour tvs
The tv is shown in colour not to the vault person. So my very wild guess is that it is to indicate to us it is either a fresh take (enhanced) maybe of the fallout world or even that because it is so close after the bombs dropped that the destruction and ensuing chaos that happened during it is still fresh/new.
I Think That vault 75 is like a luxury vault, and that's why it has coloured TVs. Vault 75 also looks like it has more interior to it than all the other vaults it the fallout series
I thought maybe it had something to with this game taking place only 25 years after the war the TV would be coloured but over time some component would break down between then and 200 years and the TV would only display black and white like in all over Fallout games
I’m feeling a 70s theme with all the 76 and such. John Denver, red solo cups, and more colur tv. I know it’s a different timeline that is drastically different from ours, but that is just what I felt from the game. Please no long “comebacks” I know it’s a 50s aesthetic.
I first thought that the colored please standby image was hinting at fallout 3 and new Vegas remaster because the two colors in the image is green and yellow
I agree, it is possible. I think it goes even farther though. As their debut vault, Vault 76 was the ticket in. It had to showcase the best. So, Vault-Tec wanted it notice by both high-ranked government officials and other business leaders of the time. Both those types of individuals most likely had color tvs, so paying for that color broadcast was in Vault-Tec best interests. In the same vein, color tv was undoubtedly view as a high-class by the common man, so by having at least one color tv in this vault would allow them to reason a higher price for vault entrance both on Vault 76 and later vaults. In my opinion, the color tv was nothing more than a numbers game to Vault-Tec.
You know, in the games series, the fact that the TVs have a Please Stand by means there is a station transmitting a signal. Wonder why it was never found and used by someone.
I believe those TVs were monochrome though. So the color switch changed it from black and white to a single color. And then the tint switch changes the color that is shown
Or it could be that they are going for a more 70's style theme with this game. Hence John Denver's song and the prominant use of color Tv's. Not to mention the style and decor of the vault rooms that you don't see in any other game.
To make things even more interesting, early color TV concepts used a fast spinning color-wheel, rather than a shadow-mask as the commonly known color CRT television sets used. If you wanna know more about it, the TH-cam channel "Technology Connections" has a great in-depth video about that subject. Enjoy.
Technically color was invented in the 20's, although very expensive. The Wizard of Oz was filmed in Technicolor. It was very expensive so they were close to breaking even. The fallout divergence happened during the sixties.
In our history, the Indian head test pattern was only broadcast in black and white. for color test patterns there was a different display. There is actually a purpose for everything on the test pattern in order to ensure that the cameras being used, the monitors in the studios and the home televisions were all adjusted the same for the best possible user experience. It would make no sense to make the image color as there would be no purpose to it. The various other color test patterns were more functional and accurate for that purpose. My point is, regardless of "lore" having the pattern in color is a mistake and should not have been that way.
Lone I love all your videos and really appreciate all the hard work you put into them gathering info and details regarding fallout lore. I hope you are feeling the love from your community!
I'm an old man and I can tell you color TV was a very big deal. I remember Sunday nights the whole neighborhood going to one neighbor's house to watch "Bonanza" because they had the only color TV in the neighborhood. Most people just couldn't afford color TVs and they were really kind of rare. Nice video.
Liked the video and all the info as always Lone. In this video you got me thinking a bit actually. What if the whole trailer is an actual ad for Vault 76, you mention how the vault was a premier vault and showed off to the public. Maybe this video was showing the public what a wonderful place the Vault is, the nice living quarters with all the house hold items one needs and a spacious vault, the focus of the ad inviting the peoole to the vaults and showing in a short clip that the vaults will have all you could as for, all the latest house hold gadgets and a beautiful living space for anyone. With the main focus so reclaim the country in the event of a nuclear fallout. So maybe it isn't really 20 years after and the date on the pipboy was just a random one featured in the 'ad' for the vault
Maybe the B&W TVs were just more durable and lasted longer, which is why we see more of them later in the timeline. Also, the parts and tubes to repair the B&W screens would've been easier to find. Think of how long they had to be maintained.
Makes sense. I always assumed it was because the people in this vault were probably richer so could better afford that technology (like maybe you’re seeing the overseers vault). But I like the detail and history you added to it.
Real world fact color filming was done in world war two this is why cameras recorded in color as well. Even the b29 bomber has remote controlled turrets with the Gunner used monitors and hydraulic joysticks
Another possibility if Bethesda was feeling super realistic is that the colour phosphors burn out over time so that while a 25 year old CRT tube that is only lightly used will only have slightly muted colours. A 200 year old one will appear black and white.
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Quick little correction for this video. Vault 76 wasn't one of the first vaults constructed. What I meant to say is that it was one of the vaults displayed to the public in such an open manner. The debut was on the tercentenary of the US (2076), which even further justifies the claim that there would have been a coloured tv broadcast for that event :)
Thank you to Randal Smith for correcting me! Together we are a smarter Fallout community :)
LoneVaultWanderer It's funny that you say that because civilians as far as a we know didn't have access to color TV's so that broadcast being in color seems odd. The color TV's instances that you showed were High-tech shit in Mariposa military base meaning that most likely the primitive color TV's were only for military use. Not even the rich, so once again, it's VERY unlikely civilians aired programs in color because absolutely no one had color TV's in their houses. So, what's my theory? Bethesda just neglected the lore again
Bethesda had consistently kept with the lore in this area throughout FO3 and 4, and made a point of displaying the colors on the test pattern screen when showing the tease. I disagree that this is something as simple as Bethesda just "ignoring the lore".
The Ninjaneer Yes, but they had consis tell screwed the lore of other things. So what keeps them from doing it now with color TV's? Although to be honest, the color standby thing might tip something off. I just hope they at least explain why there's that in civilian hands. Not just leave it out there as if it was normal, that's all I ask
Consistently*
I think the video went over why it was NOT in civilian hands. What if this was a prerecorded speech recorded JUST for the Vault 76 dwellers? Sure, maybe news crews got a B&W recording for "civilians", but Vault-Tec recorded a color version for their own purposes, like having it play on loop/on demand in the vault during special occasions? I can't say anything for the lore in general, all I can say is that I am looking forward to seeing more on what the game entails during their E3 presentation.
There is a sign in novac in fallout new Vegas that says yes we have color tv
I know, I sued them for false advertisement over it...
Watermelon Monsterman Really? I got my revenge by getting some bald fellow to kill the owner. It was of mutual benefit. Something about his wife, but I hadn't asked much more of it.
dovaborn777 xD
also, the old world blues add on had a color presentation in that 50s style at the start.
Bagpuss Unleashed that could have been film
Makes sense, a control vault would be designed to be perfect.
Yeah it would be great! Thank you for watching Connor :) Stay tuned for more Fallout 76 videos!
LoneVaultWanderer Thank you for the response, subbed now :)
color tvs were avaible and prototyped for ages ( before ww2 ) in our world , so it makes sense for fallout 76 to feature them ,they exist but are not popular
Diego Antonio Rosario Palomino more expensive to
It makes sense. It took much, much longer for the hipster movement to come to Fallout America. Color TVs were too mainstream, so they stuck with black and white. Thankfully the bombs fell before they could do any more damage.
B&W Tvs were just stupid cheap to produce. More obtainable to the average person. Heck. You could even make a BW Tv to color using a spinning disk of colored plstic synced to the CBS Color BroadCast Signal
tylerrip11 that would be reiquiere little tecnology but would be terribly expensive for a quality tv, it was vaccuum tubes that cheapned tvs and then transistors in the case of color Tvs (used to eliminate ntsc artifacts )
Diego Antonio Rosario Palomino no it doesnt make sense, it would make it possible, but not any sense as precedence dictates that tvs are BW in the fallout universe.
The sign for E3 Bethesda have put up also shows the typical vault boy mascott going from black and white to colour. So the colours certainly do have some significance in this game.
I'm loving the Fallout 76 hype train, bringing me back to pre fallout 4 days.
For sure man. The excitement is electric!
then get disappointed after the hype and then repeat again with another fallout game
Angelo Luna I disagree. I was never disappointed with Fallout 4
DJ May - I think he means it sucks because it didn’t resemble New Vegas, which is ridiculous . (But why the fuck don’t they do NV 2? It’s not that hard to figure out lol.)
got ee different company
Excellent.. The first time I ever get a comment featured and not only is it just straight wrong, but also there's a typo. That's great. :p
Haha dude dont stress. I even made a mistake in this video too. So tough to be 100% accurate with fallout lore :)
LoneVaultWanderer Looking at you, Bethesda. /s
You can edit your comments, you know.
Good that people are asking the real questions
Hahahaha
I feel potentially the reason colou tv is absent post Fallout 2 is because technology eventually breaks through usage and 200 years after (year fallout 3 is set in) any more tvs were likely produced is enough time to see the 10% or so population of tvs that are colour to have eventually broken and for parts not be available to fix them so the fact that Fallout 76 is most likely going to be prequel to all other fallout games this has a factor is the colour TVs being present
Anyway Top Video Lone
Doesn’t the TV from Fallout 4’s prologue play black and white?
did you guys all forget about the Silver Shroud Recording Studio in Fallout 4?
Literally had Colour Testing Lights for the Cameras.
I think you need some more fallout merchandise in the background
You're absolutely right. I don't have enough :D
9 minutes for a simple question
My bad :D Hope you enjoyed it though
I did
i glad you made this video because i have been bugged by the color tv for since the "please stand by went up"
Before I even watch the video let me say this, the radiation King TVs in Fallout 3 had a switch to turn on color I honestly can't find the link right now but if you Google it you can find pictures
You are correct, but those were monochrome displays I believe. The "color" switch likely swaps it between black/white and a single color, then the "tint" switch changes the color/hue like how you can change the color on a pipboy. This is why I didn't mention it in the video, as we were analysing full color displayed tvs :)
LoneVaultWanderer oh thanks I wasn't trying to undercut you or anything I don't want to come across that way I just seen a post about this and actually had Googled a couple pictures of the radiation King TV sets actually to look for myself and just wanted to see if I could predict what the video was about.
Hey don't stress buddy it's okay! I absolutely don't mind being corrected or questioned on Fallout lore. I certainly don't make myself out to know everything :) Thank you for watching my video!
LoneVaultWanderer reading some of your reply’s has showed me you are an absolute legend, kind and respectful. subbed
My hope is that the color tv is a hint that we will have a more colorful landscape in the game i.e. trees with leaves not just dead branches.
vaultgirl145 this was 25 years after the bombs dropped I highly doubt that sir, buildings? Yes trees? No
Yes quite serious in fact. If the game is set in part of WV. WV while rich in coal does not have any military base which would have been targeted i.e. no bombs. While yes I realize that nucular fallout would have been carried on the wind and rain and caused damage to the area it would not be as devastating as it is in areas where the bombs did fall. However, I would expect a more barren dead landscape on the WV boarders of Pa, Va and Md where the bombs did fall.
vaultgirl145 yeah, I think your right, the most eastern area of the map which is closest to the 4 cities that got bombed should be super bleak, and the western side more lively, but I hope it's limited, because in lore, apparently it is not safe to be out for long periods of time
vaultgirl145 that actual makes sense
From the trailer it takes place ~25 years after the war. According to FO lore after the bombs there was about a decade of nuclear winter. Most all vegetation would have been wiped out at that point even in places like WV due to the NW even if no bombs directly dropped. So about 15 yrs, fighting the fallout, for new growth? I wouldn't expect much green honestly.
So i just remember that when you vist the hubris comic set they have a color light test. So i think we could of relized that there was some color programming in the game. This is a great video lone!
Or it was possible to have been for effect in Black and white as varies colored clothes and varies colored make-up was used to help things like shading and such to make films and shows look good
Lloyd Landrum also possible
One thing that was not mentioned is that in Fallout 3, when you enter simulations (just Anchorage? Can't recall if that's the only one in color), it's in color. That would also indicate colorized screens existing, if these simulations are viewed through a headset.
Another thing worth pointing out is that a majority of the televisions we encounter in Fallout are not powered on, are broken, or just displaying static screens. With that in mind, we conceivably could have encountered color televisions without ever knowing it. As for colorized screens on terminals, it would seem the technology for that most likely did not exist or was extremely high end.
Since vault 76 was Televised i believe they had the best equipment in order the promote and persuade people to buy a place in a vault.
Thought the colour TV was some kind of mistake from Bethesda, but I'm glad you proved me wrong! Excellent video
Bethesda generally does kinda respect previous lore and leaves links to past games, it's just the minor oversights and retcons that people get mad about, despite them generally fitting in with the lore sensibly.
Kris Handsome also people who hate on Bethesda for the retcons on F3/4 like to ignore the ones in NV
Dead Fox
If I remember correctly the retcons were kinda minor in that game too, but tons of characters talk mostly about Fallout 1-2. Only things I remember that was strange was the Enclave being implied to be national with bases in Illinois when previous games state they got booted off the west coast and went straight to DC, Robco being named after a guy instead of the word robot, and Big MT being responsible for all kinds of stuff nobody knew about.
for me the colored tv is just one more sign that they are making Fallout 76 with a 1970ths atmosphere, even though the game is a prequal, looks like they are going to make everything there like we were at 1976.
For me the main proof of that fact are the followings:
- Jon Denver song from the 70ths
- Fallout "76" is a reference to a year in the 70ths
- Colored tv was common among the public in the early 70ths.
I just figured that Bethesda decided they didn’t have to cram the 50s up the ass of everything in Fallout anymore...
I am 95% sure fallout 76 is set in space. Theres Jangles, the spaceship, the stars in the sign ups and the hotel ad. That would also explain the fact that they dont show the outside, (as we dont see it before we get abducted), and the fact they mention Vault 76 in Zeta. The Take me Home Country Roads is actually a link to going home to vault 76 (Since bethesda vaults have the big "Welcome Home" at the entrance).
Also, Bio-med gel, the thing which helps robobrains, was made by aliens.
Not only that, but the Giddy-up Butter cup somehow has to be linked to the fact its the alien's favorite thing.
Here’s something I always kept note of: Back in 1998 when the FO2 trailer came out, it featured an entirely in-color Civil Defense film intermixed with gameplay. This was the first sign of color TV existing in Fallout to me. In fact, the original 1950’s clips they were using aired in B&W, and I have no idea who later colored them (interplay? Black Isle?). Either way, thought that was an interesting thing to keep in mind: th-cam.com/video/5fr1KDYGkeo/w-d-xo.html
Great video, fun to learn the lore on Color TVs, this Real World game has some in-depth lore.
still the most common misconception in the community is that fallout was the "1950s" and not the 2070s, things still happen over there after the 50s like a Moon landing and ending segregation, and they even had hippies.
Yet they stick to listening to music from 120+ years prior to the bombs falling. It's one of the more glaring issues with the games lore in my opinion. Also the need for the same old bulky looking tech isn't really justified. People redesign and reinvent and innovate all the time,(could you imagine 120+ years of 1950's everything?!) throughout history. I'm talking fashion,art,music, technology etc. Human's in the Fallout universe just seem to be stuck in a 1950's cultural vacuum. All for the sake of "retro-futurism." Fallout's or Beth's take on retro futurism is too tame and too stuck in that 1950's aesthetic. It's just so damn distracting.
art-Santiago Avida was an painter, along with we "seen" tons of new movies and comics. Artruical also changes too, look at the Hi-Tech Building in Voston.
music-Vera Keyes is a singer with a catalog of songs (this one you really have to chuck up to cost/efficiency there, I'm still blown away that they had Magnolia in 4, hiring Lynda Carter to write 5 songs)
technology-an whole line of robots, AI programming, energy weapons, rocket engines to mars, terrafroming devices, the creation of the transistor at some point (really muddy when), son on
progression-civil rights, hippies, so on did happen.
Culture may be 50s based but it's not stuck in a Vacuum, and it's not the first time in human history that we didn't throw out everything every decade, i mean look at Ancient Egypt.
Gerald I'm not sure if you understood my point. Theres a painter robobrain sure, and we got to see movie posters and comic book covers but that shit is stuck in 1950's aesthetic. Why? I know we finally got some post war music, Im REALLY glad we did, but it's for whatever reason stuck in that vacuum. They can't break away from it. Where's the originality? I mean they make stupid amounts of money from their games we all know they can afford to budget in original post war music. Their tech is all muddled in 1950's aesthetic. Bulky and clunky just for the sake of it. Wasnt saying they didnt make new shit, just that its all stuck in that 50's vacuum. Its all too 50's. I don't believe we would've stuck to that aesthetic for that long just because some component wasnt invented early on. People constantly redesisgn and reshape shit and as far music goes, why would the world be listening to the inkspots or Roy Brown in 2077? Also what the fuck is up with this obsession with atomic fallout themed music? Its all so on the nose that it just ends up being distracting to me.
And i'm saying having the 50's aesthetic isn't the same as being "stuck in", the culture was still functioning and advancing, a culture doesn't have to have new skins every decade (hell ours been defaulting back to 80s for nostalgia).
as for the atomic fallout themed music, i'll give you that one, someone at Bethesda is trying a bit too hard there.
Gerald Theres a reason why so many people look at me dumbfounded when I tell them the world of Fallout didnt end in the 1950's and I can't blame them. Bethesda went overboard with the whole 1950's aesthetic. I understand that the Fallout universe made social progress and invented new things but it's just all so damn tied to that 50's look and feel that it ends up feeling weird and not believeable. Like there was a sudden stop in creating new things. Could you imagine if we suddenly stoped redesigning stuff? I mean you'd have to choose a stopping point and go from there but just imagine how bizarre thatd be. We all use bulky loud beige pcs and beepers and giant tube tv's , and monochrome cellphones casette players for music and VCR etc. Another thing is the lack of making shit safe. It ties in to the 1950's thing of "what the fuck were they thinking?!" But its also a reason why shit gets redesigned. You dont really see that here, for the sake of hammering in that 1950's vibe. I mean its a staple of the series but it also goes agaisnt how we do things in real life.
Why hasn't anyone thought that this game is set with a 70's vibe instead of a 50's vibe? I mean the song in the trailer was released in the 70's. The colored TV screen, the color scheme for the furniture and environment fit the era and the posters on the wall and game itself mentions the number 70. Call me crazy but I think i'm onto something.
Wasn’t the Last Silver Shroud Episode Supposed To Be In Color ? - In Fallout 4 at Hubris Comics
nice in depth analysis, i was taught this in uni but I had completely forgotten about it till this video, great job matey
Thank you as always final :)
Love your settlements bro
I assumed it was to distinguish it from the Fallout 3 stand by image
Reece Cowell Is it not similar to the fallout 4 one as well?
I still think that it takes place in an alternate universe where culture stopped in the 70s. Mainly because the song in the trailer was released in 1971 and the technology in the game looks more advanced than the previous games.
ive been a subscriber for years. this dude is my hero when it comes to Fallout info.
Honestly confused as to why someone would dislike this video. He literally just gave us a history lesson. It was interesting and weighs as a very likely possibility for why we see color in the trailer. So that one person that disliked the video...I hope a deathclaw steals your bottle cap collection
How about a Fat Man mini-nuke to the face?
Dream_Overlord That is a fate worse than death.
Sean and Samuel Rivera I just hope we never have to go through it
Am I remembering it wrong? Wasnt the TV of the newscaster in colour at the beginning of 4?
Nope. Black and white :)
I think you're falling into the trap of thinking of "pseudo-fifties" Fallout as the actual fifties. It might be reasonable for color televisions to be rare in the 1950s when they were developed, but it seems unlikely they would remain rare 120 years later.
Judging from the images you presented, I posit that color television was common, but color broadcasts were not. Even events recorded in color were broadcast in b/w. Possibly due to the heavy military use of the airwaves and limitations on broadcasting licenses?
They had color footage of the attack on pearl harbor so it makes sense.
Thank you so much for this. It had me stumped when I first watched the trailer. Great work and research!
Thank you so much foxy! Stay tuned for more fallout 76 videos :)
LoneVaultWanderer
I’ll definitely be sure to stick around now that I’ve subbed.
Thanks again.
Fallout 76 takes place in the green bryer resort in West Virginia (the bomb shelter for the president) shhhh you didn’t hear it from me
I thought the reason might be as simple as monochrome means single-player and multi-color means multi-player. Thanks for putting the effort into sharing this aspect of the mystery that is Fallout 76.
I'm sorry if my comment made it seem as if multi-player was confirmed. I only meant that I was guessing multi-color might mean multi-player. My apologies. This may be a false alarm, but we will have to wait until Bethesda reveals more.
Military had color displays in 1942...... Ww two showed the world the first smart bombs German the first Jets and yes the first color TV
I did a google search of images for please stand by. The only images you find of the please stand by screen in multi color are Bethesda's. This matches my memory as a child. I only ever saw the please stand by screen in black and white. However, when the please stand by screen was commonly in use I only had access to a black and white television set. I cannot say definitively that it was never broadcast in multi-color but I never saw it in color and apparently neither has google.
Besides the color TV I was also curious about “take me home country road” that came out in 71 does that fit the lore of fallout? I thought all other music in the game was from the 50s, 60s
The most recent real-life music featured in a Fallout game to this day is "In the Shadow of the Valley", wich was made in 1998, in New Vegas. It isn't about the time period, it's about the theme and how it fits.
Personnally, I find that all those rockabilly songs in Fallout 4 were much less "Fallout-friendly", even thought they are closer to the 50's than the one I mentioned.
"Country Roads", here, even thought I, I'll admit, was unsure about it the first time I saw the trailer, to me totally fits what seems to be the setting and the general tone of Fallout 76.
It's like how bioshock infinite had slaves singing fortune son. Some events in their chronology differ from ours.
Actually a lot of Bioshock Infinite's plot revolve around portals and time paradox. It is actually explained in the game via voxophones that Fink's brother (if I remember correctly) heared music from the future coming out of portals, and remade it in a 1910s fashion so he could be perceived as a musical genius.
Maybe our pip-boy screen will be in colors too. Vault 76 MasterRace!
Omed Hani that wouldn't make too much sense. Especially with the pipboy looking like an older model
Yeah, the pip-boy in fallout 3 and new Vegas were model 3000. Fallout 4 looked like a different version of the model 3000. The one seen in Fallout 76 is a model 2000.
Some people just dont understand jokes ^^
Maybe a prototype colored pipboy
The screen is costimizable through the menu.
Another point to add is that electronics up into the 1980s and 1990s often used crystal oscillators for color calibration. If these oscillators were not calibrated, after a decade or two their color would start to be slightly off and after many years without calibration their signal would lack color information. It's quite possible that many of the displays we see in Fallout games were once color units but centuries of disrepair are making more and more become black and white. Taking place just a couple decades after the war, it makes sense for crystal-based color calibration to still be mostly functional while hundreds of years later only well-maintained displays can still display color.
Wow, finally some in-depth and actually fresh analysis. Thank you! Too many people are now getting obsessed about multiplayer and other unconfirmed leaks. Really nice to see something new :).
Good research No issue with lore here Vaul-tec is part of the government so it makes sense they would have TV in color
If you noticed, the Think Tank in the Old World Blues DLC for New Vegas had color flatscreen monitors
Anybody else notice that the TV footage and the vault door just has that Fallout 1 and 2 art style?
You deserve a fuck-ton more subs mate. Appreciate your content. Peace from Brisvegas!
The other thing we as wanderers in this amazing world have to remember every terminal we hack or look at in the FO3&4 versions of the game take place many hundreds of years later...i.e. there is no one 'broadcasting' in colour anyways..whereas you quite rightly point out this colour standard and colour promo vid was most likely all the go when Vault 76 was being promoted on the networks prior to the bombs dropping in 2077. I dare say the Overseer in Vault 76 probably had many colour recordings from Vault Tec that were to be aired regularly during their stay inside the facility, many propaganda films for the inhabitants of V76 to watch as the 20-25yrs rolled by. Many dying, many new borns growing up on the info feed from Vault Tec and no doubt they were well a truly primed for the ' Unlocking' of the Vault on Reclamation Day.
I think the game is going to be so exciting from the standpoint that it is so early...its before the BOS, its before the NCR and all the other factions. Hell , how long does it take to make a ghoul?...will their be mutants of ANY kind...?? Its certainly going to take every Lone wanderer, Soul survivor, Courier, Initiate, Chosen One & Warrior...ect out of their comfort zone that's for sure.
I think in the end of fo4 the main character goes to West Virginia to go see his or her brother or sister to give them some far harbour and nuka world stuff that would explain no one is in vault 76 and that the pipboy 3000s were gone and that the pip boy 2000 time display were on some spiny stuff and that was the last date of the spiny thing is when the trailer was shot
Cinema had film in colour even earlier than that, early film was ‘tinted’ by hand and the first film / movie was shot in colour as early as 1918 - I think the main issue was finding a way to send a colour signal and have a receiver that could decode and display the image...
Part of why I love Fallout is because I'm an older guy and first learned to repair electronics when tube-type audio/video were still in wide use. Let me tell you, it's a whole different world building/repairing tube-type electronics, almost voodoo compared to solid state. Color TVs in particular were truly odd beasts in color, the complexity and power requirements were orders of magnitude more than their B&W or monochrome counterparts. Fallout is so great because they draw on such fundamental realities to create their fantasy world. The devil is in the details, as they say.
What if colored TVs were extremely pricy, only available to the wealthy. If so, then Vault 76 could be home to the wealthiest or most powerful people in Country.
That's actually really smart. I feel like that probably it. Lol
That makes more sense than anything I’ve read. With all the military spending, taxes would be very high, meaning very small homes and few consumer goods for the middle class. I’ve thought about that on cars as well; with relatively few sold, there’s less pressure to change styling. Only a commie would change the style or buy a color TV instead of war bonds, comrade.
Mike Whitfield If the cars aren’t selling, wouldn’t that just encourage them to change the style?
CSR Swazzy Think Soviet Bloc nations. If owning a car - any car - is a rare honor, then tempting people with new styles and features isn’t necessary. More to the point, there’s no profit to pay for redesigning and retooling. This would be reinforced if (because of petroleum shortages) cars used way more expensive and presumably longer lasting fusion engines. Your point would be more valid if cars in general are selling well, but one particular brand isn’t selling. Then that brand HAS to redesign, even if the cost is ruinous. We saw that in the American fifties as some brands, left behind in the growing auto sales boom, spent far more than they could afford to risk after the slow sales of the war years on modernization. Most of those brands went under because they could afford only one shot whereas companies like Chrysler and Chevrolet and Ford, having profited from lucrative military contracts, had the profit for continual modernization. But poorer countries like Italy had much slower changes in style and technology during the same period.
Mike Whitfield I see what your saying now
Thanks for replying😃
Imagine if we could see the thoughts and memories of the Sole Survivor. Like, we could learn so much from the events of the Sole Survivor's life.
Secondary note, the red Solo Cup shown in the trailer was not invented until the 1970s and the decor of the room we are shown definitely has a 70s vibe to it. Perhaps this game is more 70s themed than 50s themed? Don’t know for sure, but cool to think about.
Edit: also “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver (the song from the trailer) was released in 1971.
The transistor in fallout I believe exist as it is referenced by Proctor Quinlan in Fallout 4. I think he was talking about a transistor radio. It could be that maybe the transistor was developed way later and was harder to manufacture in the Fallout universe.
For a little bit I was wondering why a vault even had a luxurious full color tv but yeah I suppose they did want to give the idea that these vaults were all a comfy luxury type of deal.
When I first saw the color, I immediately wondered if color television was present during the pre-divergence era. So I checked Wikipedia on May 28, and saw this very site page.
Thanks, I was wAndering about this
You're more than welcome rumba :)
That's lame. You ended up spelling a different word so the joke sucks. Lame.
The color probably signifies that the Control Vault is filled with state of the art.
In Fallout 2, there was a time where you were able to talk to a enclave soldier on a computer and it was in color. Maybe by that logic, color tv was a strictly military/Strictly Local thing just like the T-60 suit power armor?
I was born in 1994 and my grandparents still had black and white TVs around their homes when I was growing up (my city dwelling grandparents also had color TVs), so it's not unreasonable to think that if color TV was relatively new in 2077 then most people would still be using black and white TVs.
Honestly it never really made sense to me why a culture who obv has advanced technology still watches tv in black and white. I get the whole 50's theme but if your driving around cars with a nuclear fusion engine youd think someone would of also had invented color tv lol.
I love fallout man its just so sick
I know right :)
I just assumed the multicolour was a hint at multiplayer. I'm probably wrong
exert2020 anhh shitt
Single color old teasers: single player. Multiple colors: multiple players.
I was watching this channel for the first time on this and I got that rewarding experience when I heard the fallout 4 level up noise XD
With theory that the character depicted in the trailer it would make sense for him to have a colored TV
Some of the TVs in Fallout 3 and NV actually have dials for adjusting color on them
"4 years before transistors where not invented" is a rare sentence
You are the best Lone. I love your work. This video really shone a light on ome of Fallouts history, it's good to have an explanation on those colour tvs
The tv is shown in colour not to the vault person. So my very wild guess is that it is to indicate to us it is either a fresh take (enhanced) maybe of the fallout world or even that because it is so close after the bombs dropped that the destruction and ensuing chaos that happened during it is still fresh/new.
I Think That vault 75 is like a luxury vault, and that's why it has coloured TVs. Vault 75 also looks like it has more interior to it than all the other vaults it the fallout series
In fallout 2 ( one of those games that pretty much no one has played) you talk to an enclave soldier at a powerplant through a colored video chat.
I thought maybe it had something to with this game taking place only 25 years after the war the TV would be coloured but over time some component would break down between then and 200 years and the TV would only display black and white like in all over Fallout games
I think it also exposes the type of people who were in the vault. AKA the richest and most powerful at the time.
I’m feeling a 70s theme with all the 76 and such. John Denver, red solo cups, and more colur tv. I know it’s a different timeline that is drastically different from ours, but that is just what I felt from the game. Please no long “comebacks” I know it’s a 50s aesthetic.
Vault 76 is probably some rendezvous point for the Enclave
I first thought that the colored please standby image was hinting at fallout 3 and new Vegas remaster because the two colors in the image is green and yellow
I agree, it is possible. I think it goes even farther though. As their debut vault, Vault 76 was the ticket in. It had to showcase the best. So, Vault-Tec wanted it notice by both high-ranked government officials and other business leaders of the time. Both those types of individuals most likely had color tvs, so paying for that color broadcast was in Vault-Tec best interests. In the same vein, color tv was undoubtedly view as a high-class by the common man, so by having at least one color tv in this vault would allow them to reason a higher price for vault entrance both on Vault 76 and later vaults. In my opinion, the color tv was nothing more than a numbers game to Vault-Tec.
I really need to play them old Fallout 1 and 2 games again. I'd actually forgotten they had color displays in those.
You know, in the games series, the fact that the TVs have a Please Stand by means there is a station transmitting a signal. Wonder why it was never found and used by someone.
God this reminds me of the good old fallout 4 days of speculation...I love this
In Fallout NV if you look close up to a TV in Novac the TV has an option to turn on color like an early color tv
I believe those TVs were monochrome though. So the color switch changed it from black and white to a single color. And then the tint switch changes the color that is shown
Or it could be that they are going for a more 70's style theme with this game. Hence John Denver's song and the prominant use of color Tv's. Not to mention the style and decor of the vault rooms that you don't see in any other game.
To make things even more interesting, early color TV concepts used a fast spinning color-wheel, rather than a shadow-mask as the commonly known color CRT television sets used. If you wanna know more about it, the TH-cam channel "Technology Connections" has a great in-depth video about that subject. Enjoy.
Lol I haven't watched your channel in over a year (at least). I was super surprised by seeing your face
Haha well im glad to see u come back :)
pearl Garden 1994 I never wanted to see his face, he's lamer than my image in my head
Technically color was invented in the 20's, although very expensive. The Wizard of Oz was filmed in Technicolor. It was very expensive so they were close to breaking even. The fallout divergence happened during the sixties.
In our history, the Indian head test pattern was only broadcast in black and white. for color test patterns there was a different display. There is actually a purpose for everything on the test pattern in order to ensure that the cameras being used, the monitors in the studios and the home televisions were all adjusted the same for the best possible user experience. It would make no sense to make the image color as there would be no purpose to it. The various other color test patterns were more functional and accurate for that purpose.
My point is, regardless of "lore" having the pattern in color is a mistake and should not have been that way.
Let's not forget that "Country Roads" was written in 1971.
YEAH I was so excited seeing the tvs in color because it made me think that WOAH WASTELAND PEOPLE FIGURED OUT COLOR
Lone I love all your videos and really appreciate all the hard work you put into them gathering info and details regarding fallout lore. I hope you are feeling the love from your community!
I'm an old man and I can tell you color TV was a very big deal. I remember Sunday nights the whole neighborhood going to one neighbor's house to watch "Bonanza" because they had the only color TV in the neighborhood. Most people just couldn't afford color TVs and they were really kind of rare. Nice video.
Some how i went from watching stuff like "everything we know about vault 76" to learning about colored TV. To be honest i dont regret a thing
Liked the video and all the info as always Lone. In this video you got me thinking a bit actually. What if the whole trailer is an actual ad for Vault 76, you mention how the vault was a premier vault and showed off to the public. Maybe this video was showing the public what a wonderful place the Vault is, the nice living quarters with all the house hold items one needs and a spacious vault, the focus of the ad inviting the peoole to the vaults and showing in a short clip that the vaults will have all you could as for, all the latest house hold gadgets and a beautiful living space for anyone. With the main focus so reclaim the country in the event of a nuclear fallout. So maybe it isn't really 20 years after and the date on the pipboy was just a random one featured in the 'ad' for the vault
Based on the lore the transistor was invented before 2023 in the Fallout reality (Cabot House, Fallout 4).
This channel is evolving into something very special! Keep it up Lone!
Maybe the B&W TVs were just more durable and lasted longer, which is why we see more of them later in the timeline. Also, the parts and tubes to repair the B&W screens would've been easier to find. Think of how long they had to be maintained.
Makes sense. I always assumed it was because the people in this vault were probably richer so could better afford that technology (like maybe you’re seeing the overseers vault). But I like the detail and history you added to it.
Real world fact color filming was done in world war two this is why cameras recorded in color as well. Even the b29 bomber has remote controlled turrets with the Gunner used monitors and hydraulic joysticks
Another possibility if Bethesda was feeling super realistic is that the colour phosphors burn out over time so that while a 25 year old CRT tube that is only lightly used will only have slightly muted colours. A 200 year old one will appear black and white.
It might be in greenbrier shelter, which is an actual government bomb shelter in West Virginia, which would explain color TVs