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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
Sheesh, you have had to be a station very on top to afford a camera that costed like that. More then 1,000,000 U.S. Dollars in today's money. And you didn't need just one camera, you needed to. With the price of 2 cameras you could get the S.D. equypment of one studio.
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You must realize that this price was paying the full development cost, because the makers knew that the market was only for a few while the HDTV system specifications were being developed. Once the system was standardized and broadcasts could start, the prices could drop to about 10-15% of the experimental model. Still not for the casual user, but something the broadcasters could afford.