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Originally Posted by wa2ise
Heard what is likely just an urban legend about a world series or pennants being broadcast in CBS's sequential color system, back around 1950 or so. And that a rich baseball fan had a TV engineer or serviceman modify a B&W set to show, in B&W, the video of the game. So he could watch. Seems unlikely that a TV station would broadcast in a mode that almost nobody could view... 
Back in the early 50's, they probably had one TV camera, or maybe two cameras at most. Probably one of those cameras were located beyond the outfield, behind the shortstop, so you could see the pitches and the batter and the strike zone. |
CBS field sequential was not outside the usable adjustment range of some black and white sets....Might not have even needed a service man.