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Originally Posted by etype2
Larry, I agree, but being there as you were, my memories were of compromised color akin to the restored tape of “An Evening With Fred Astaire”. I saw my first color TV in 1956. The technology of the broadcast color chain back then could not exploit the capability of color TV receivers.
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Not completely related, but I'm going to retell a story my dad used to tell. Back in 1959, my dad bought an Admiral 21" color TV. Admiral built the cabinet, but it was an RCA supplied CTC11 and CRT.
My dad had a customer interested in buying a color TV, and since there was no color broadcast during regular hours or weekdays, dad invited him to our house on Sunday night to watch NBC (Walt Disney I believe it was).
The man sat quietly for an hour and when the show was over, stood up and told my dad that he came to laugh at the color TV. He never expected to see something so beautiful as what he saw that night.
I don't recall if the man bought a color TV or not (dad is gone now almost 20 years so I can't ask him), but I always got a kick out of that story.
John