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Originally Posted by Steve McVoy
Small screen was only one part of the reason CT-100s didn't sell. They were expensive ($1000 at a time when you could get an excellent 21 inch black and white set for around $200), poor performance, complicated so they broke down frequently, very little programming in color. It would be the late 60s before these deficiencies were cured. 1970 was the first year that more color sets were sold than black and white.
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Nothings changed. The few working CT-100's still break down frequently! Sarnoff, after all the money & time invested, wasn't about to let other manufacturers offer color sets before RCA. Although Westinghouse, at least, beat them to the marketplace by a month or so.
-Steve D.