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Originally Posted by stromberg67
The one I like best is that RCA had to pay royalties to CBS for the color CRT patents CBS developed to improve the tubes. I'll bet Sarnoff wasn't pleased.
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RCA engineers couldn't see the forest for the trees so to speak. The 15HP22 and 19VP22 were a huge leap forward, and it would have been insane for RCA to release what essentially amounted to a 19 inch 15GP22 with the suspended dot plate. The 15GP22 never should have been released in production sets. The CBS 19VP22 was about the first truly practical, more modern color CRT, and even that was a bit of a dog due to very poor quality control. The 21AXP22 was better yet.