Progress Report on NBC Color Television - 1955 (courtesy of Paul Garbarczyk)Ĭolor filters - an inexpensive way to get color TV (CTI/Sleeper system) (1947)Īutomatic color TV coil engineering samples Mexican color television (Guillermo Gonzales Camarena) (1964)Ĭolor Television, Inc. Thomson-CSF field sequential system (1963) John Logie Baird electronic system (1943-45) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Color System (1950)īritish experimental field sequential system (1953) John Logie Baird mechanical system (1928) Turner field sequential color film system (1902) 1970 was the first year that color set sales exceeded black and white. Another factor that helped color set sales was the popularity of the Disney show The Wonderful World of Color, which began in 1961. In the late 60s color sets became more reliable and cheaper, and more network TV shows were televised in color, so color sales accelerated. Improved, prices came down, and more color programming became available. Sales were slow until the mid 1960s, when the reliability of sets Trade-in of up to $400 for their black and white sets towards theīy the end of 1957 only 150,000 color sets had been sold. Color In 1955, Raytheon introduced a 21 inch set for $795 and CBS offered a New York Times said "Set Buying Lags - Public Seen Awaiting Rented color sets for $200 for the first month and $75/month thereafter.īy the summer of 1954 there was already a shakeout. GE sold its 15 inch set for $1,000, Sylvania's cost $1,150. Introduced the CT-100 a few weeks later, at a price of $1000 (about 4000 were made). The first set to be manufactured in significant quantites (approximately 500) was made by Westinghouse, and sold for $1295. Raytheon, Admiral or Philharmonic may have been the first company to offer color sets for sale to the public. The most comprehensive website on early color history is by Ed Here are magazine and newspaper articles and advertisements about the two competing color systems. Manufacturers made 15 and 19 inch sets, most in very small quantities. Sets were made with a 21 inch picture tube. Later that year, 19 inch sets were made, and by 1955 all Television sets for this system were sold in 1954. In late 1953, the FCC adopted the RCA compatible system, commonly referred to as the NTSC system. RCA, meanwhile, continued to improve their system. Manufacturers were reluctant to make sets for the CBS field sequential system, and very few sets were made.
Here is a 1950 film taken off the screen of a CBS receiver. Here is a paper delivered by the Chairman of the FCC describing the thinking that led to the adoption of the CBS field sequential system.įor a few months in 1951, test broadcasts were done using the CBS field sequential system. At that time, the RCA system produced poor picture quality, and CBS was successful in getting the FCC to adopt their system. In 1950 the FCC tested the CBS system, along with a compatible system by RCA. The system was simple and produced excellent pictures, though it had many drawbacks, including low resolution, flicker, and most signifcant, it wasn't compatible with existing black and white broadcasting. While a similar wheel rotated in front of the television screen, Segments of red, green, and blue rotated in front of the camera, Image in each of the three primary colors sequentially. In the early 1940s, CBS pioneered a system which transmitted an The first color system was developed by John Logie Baird in 1928. Early Television Museum Early Color Television
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