Westinghouse 22 inch color restoration

[John Folsom]

What can I say? Fantastic!

Now I will speculate: It has be supposed that he reason this 22" rectangular set "failed" was that the convergence was "no good". But I offer another hypothesis. The convergence was OK, but the cost of the CRT was high, and by 1958, the color TV market had hit rock bottom. By the next year, only RCA fielded a set, using their round CRT. No manufacturer wanted to spend any more money to develop or market a rectangular CRT into a color TV market that was loosing money for everyone. So for the better part on a decade, the easy to produce round CRT, funded and developed mainly by RCA, was the CRT available. It was not until the mid 1960s that the burgeoning color TV market justified reinvestment in development of a next generation rectangular CRT.

Just my theory of how it was....