Very, very early CoLoR TV

[David Roper]

The mirror lid color prototypes are properly called triniscopes and a couple survive, one of which is for sale and can be yours if you've got 20K burning a hole in your piggy bank.

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by David Roper

The mirror lid color prototypes are properly called triniscopes and a couple survive, one of which is for sale and can be yours if you've got 20K burning a hole in your piggy bank.

Incorporating the base of the CRT into the leg of the cabinet seems like a profoundly bad idea. So on that basis, I'll pass.

Very interesting none the less. Who made this contraption, and when?

[David Roper]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Who made this contraption, and when?

One or another division of RCA for sure. IIRC it was the very last triniscope made, so probably early 1950.

[Robert Grant]

Originally Posted by David Roper

One or another division of RCA for sure. IIRC it was the very last triniscope made, so probably early 1950.

I thought I saw somewhere that a color set using the three-tube principle was actually put into production in Japan, circa 1963. I doubt they actually produced more than a few of them.