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Old 05-08-2008, 02:34 PM
Jon Noring Jon Noring is offline
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Originally Posted by ChuckR View Post
Not to be contrary, however, I wouldn't be surprised it the 1950 CBS field sequential public broadcasts provided the first high quality color television available to the public. From what I have been told by those who saw the system, it was very impressive (color-wise, not the mechanics) as vivid as technicolor. Considering the 405 lines, 144 fields per second display rate, it was providing a lot of visual information. Just a thought from an occasional poster.
The CBS test used a different standard than the one finally settled upon in late 1953, the NTSC color.

I guess I wasn't clear in my original message where I wanted to focus on the NTSC color television receivers, the ones actually sold to consumers.
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