16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
12:14 p.m.
On 16 Dec 2011 at 11:19, Christian Kennedy wrote:
Then there's the political angle; if RCA
hadn't sued to stop
deployment of the CBS system we might have all grown up with spinning
color wheels :P
Why? Do you think that development of the tri-color CRT would have
been prevented by adoption of the field-sequential color system?
Instead, we had to put up with terrible color for decades. I
remember the CBS color system--some CBS-branded sets of the time even
had octal (or dodecar) sockets at the back of the chassis for the
colorwheel adapter.
Compared to the green skin tones of the RCA system, the CBS color
rendition was superb. Europe had the right idea--instead of rushing
something half-baked to market.
Granted, I saw only demonstrations of the CBS color system, but I
remember that the local electronics surplus dealer had big wooden
crates full of now-useless color wheels. I'm sorry that I didn't
pick up a few.
--Chuck