Though I have been assured that flicker was a real problem in 1950 when CBS demonstrated their system, I have yet to see it on the 10 inch Gray Research monitor in the musuem. Could the problem have been in the camera back then, and solved now by the use of Darryl Hock's standards converter?
http://www.earlytelevision.org/gray_monitor.html
Another serious problem with the CBS system is resolution. The picture is only 405 lines, compared to 525, but more importantly, with 4 mHz of video bandwidth it is only possible to get about 250 lines of horizontal resolution. On a 21 inch screen that would look pretty bad.