Thread: Commercial Television is 70 years old today.
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Old 07-01-2011, 03:38 PM
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525 is from 1940
Actually, the system that the FCC approved for commercial broadcast in May 1941 and officially launched on July 1 1941 is what we have today (or at least until recently). Namely 525 lines and FM sound.

The first NTSC in 1940 saw to that. 441 was moribund in 1940.
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