So in the Fallout universe we have advanced artificial intelligence, molecular synthesizers, and virtual reality that can simulate environments in vivid detail. And yet...television is http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/fallout.gamepedia.com/2/22/Fo1_Intro_Radiation_King_OR.png and http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/fallout.gamepedia.com/thumb/1/1e/MWSnap115_2015-06-15%2C_04_57_02.png/800px-MWSnap115_2015-06-15%2C_04_57_02.png?version=7376454b3526d13f914ca97ead75adbc. Heck, the Wizard of Oz was in color back in the 30s. Why hasn't the FO universe developed color T.V. yet? Do people not like it?

in the trailer for, uhm, was that fallout 1 or 2... you saw a tv in a ruined building playing a corvega commercial.

this was clearly 4c.

and for your general assumption, it wasn't before the 80ies that the average computer display went color, and it ok wasn't exactly the virtual reality age then , but computers had gone a pretty long way. (pretty much the same with tv's around here too, in 1980, a colored tv was considered high luxury for wealthy folks

i'm actually pretty sure without games, and computers going consumer ff, they'd still be black/white-green-amber-whatever, there's just not much need for color in a text or table calculation prog etc

If the VR Anchorage pod can render colored environments, why not simple color on a T.V.? There actually were color broadcasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKqHZcXvUAs

well because they had vr so nobody watched tv anymore anyway, so there just was no use in developing colored ones ,-)