Some convention highlights....

[rca2000]

Just returned from the ETF conventon. Quite good. Got to see the experimental philco 15" color set, that has been discussed here, in OPERATION. also, got to see TWO of the CBS mechanical color sets(no, I'm not talking about a DLP, ),One, was a "combination " unit, that would display both bw and color(the color wheel control circuitry was on the tv chassis), the other, a Gray research monitor. I was IMPRESSED!. Steve had put together a "scan converter", to reproduce the CBS standard, and the sync problem with the sets , trying to run on ntsc, was GONE. the Gray was VERY good, hardly anymore flicker or rainbows than a DLP has. (the converter is all digital, SMD design, and is a little bigger than a pack of cigarettes!)

There was also a Western television mechanical set on display(operational, as well as a pre-war ge, that was probably a one-off(no model #).

Several nice sets were sold by collectors, an RCA 621ts went for over $1000, and a 630 , operational, went for $400.

There was a discussion(debate!) about Philo Farnsworth, as to whether he had really made the discoveries that he had claimed. (I do not think the issue is any more resolved than before).