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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Yes, absolutely true. And just about the time the networks got their acts together on this problem, analog cable came in, with the chance for individual burst and chroma errors on each of dozens of channels, plus the multiplicative degradations of cascaded analog amplifiers before the signal got to your house.

When color TV market penetration was still ramping up, people who knew I worked on it would ask me "Do you think they'll ever perfect color TV?" I'd reply "I hope not- that's my job!"

I can tell you I never saw well adjusted color on the early 50’s sets. In my opinion, the color chain just was not as capable as what we have today.