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Originally Posted by ceebee23
That the tape still exists is a Christmas miracle itself! Despite the technical limitations it is still amazing. I do wonder how many people saw it in color in 1958.
BTW Christmas Day 1958 was a Thursday....
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I probably did. My uncle had a color set ... about one mile from the transmitter.
One thing I remember from back then (1954-1960) is color pictures
created locally (our local NBC was all-color for in-studio productions) were
better than ones from the network. I'm pretty sure I would have not been able
to say why ... just "it looks better". It did look exactly the same ... if the home set was adjusted right ... at home as in the studio audience looking
at the color monitor as I remember. By 1960 our next door neighbors also
had color .. we were 3.5 miles from the transmitter. By 1957 I was a very expert color set user control tuner. Most people didn't know how to set the
fine tuning.