Yeah, I remember hearing about those kinescopes, they were shown at the ETF convention in 2007. I wish I was there to see those, but living in Australia with a mediocre income made it impossible.
I have heard of a great colour recovery program someone in UK has developed which can recover colour from B&W 16mm kinescope film prints as on B&W monitor screen the colour pictures show the dots of variable intensity which represent each primary colour and the program can decode the pictures colour content restoring a lot of the colour (depending on quality of the kinescope film), this was made for PAL but the mind boggles on the possibilities of someone developing a similar program for NTSC kinescopes. Here are the links:
http://www.techmind.org/colrec/
http://colour-recovery.wikispaces.co...olour+recovery