What a waste. They would have saved time and money if they had just listened to the detractors and knew that color tv would just be a fad and never really catch on.
Because projectors were capable of showing color, TV's were not. All those films you saw were recorded with a film camera, and meant for projection onto a screen. Color movies existed at that time, too.
Color existed in theaters for a long time. Most of the Bugs Bunny cartoons were originally shown in theaters in the 40's and 50's (they even did special cartoons specifically for soldiers in World War 2.)
When color TV's hit the market, companies could start broadcasting those movies in color.
I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
...which is why so few of them were sold. it'd be the equivalent of someone buying a widescreen hd flatscreen 10 years or so ago. new technology is always expensive, remember bluray just a couple years ago?
It was an analog system so there isn't a direct way of comparing 'number of colors' which makes sense in a digital model but not in an analog one. You can look up charts of the colors within the NTSC color standard that apply and I'm guessing this set couldn't do the full standard but there is no number to quantify this.
Most LCD monitors "say" they can display 16.9 million colors but most "lie" as %90 of LCD monitors are cheap 6-bit TN panels they only display apx 262,000 colors. They use cheap dithering methods to fake 16.9 million.
Avoid most cheap 6-bit "TN" panels and make sure you are getting a true 8-bit (or higher) panel like an "S-PVA" or "H-IPS" panel. These are found in higher end professional monitors that say a graphic designer would need. No dithering, no faking colors. Also the blacks don't "glow" when you look at it from an awkward angle. Mine's bad for that just a little too low and the blacks and darks look like crap.
I do appreciate your information but I wonder how I as an ordinary consumer can find out which models of television offer the superior s-pva and h-ips technology since this spec if very rarely listed in the documents. Do you have a way of telling which models have which technology?
There are groups pushing for manufactures to have to display these specs as right now they don't have to. Read trusted reviews. Sony Bravia series for example use 10-bit S-PVA as does high end Samsung. H-IPS is LG and NEC. Fact is numbers on a box are meaningless. Response times and Contrast ratios too. Some manufactures do response tests on full color range, others only on black to white. Sometimes high contrast numbers = no gray scale response. Read reviews. That is all you can do.
RCA, and its broadcast TV subsidiary, NBC, were virtually the only companies to "push" color TV in 1954; ABC didn't have the resources to "go" color at the time [and wouldn't until Septmeber 1962, with only two color series on their fall schedule, one being "THE FLINTSTONES"], and CBS presented a limited amount of color programming {mostly specials} until they "dropped out" in 1958, due to their rivalry with RCA/NBC, and wouldn't begin regular color telecasts until the fall of 1965!
hoping to find one of these before I die
peugteobike 2 months ago
25 people would rather watch theater
BamesJeres 7 months ago
What a waste. They would have saved time and money if they had just listened to the detractors and knew that color tv would just be a fad and never really catch on.
toucansam3 7 months ago
@wiiplayer9isback Oh no i have a Philips black and white tv from 1956 for 1600 and it was ex antenna and installation
SamanthaRichards19 8 months ago
now explain why there are color films of world war 2 XD
MrBolibob 11 months ago
@MrBolibob
I think because of the technology now they are able to make it color. Back then in the '40s it was unheard of color tv
SoCoNFuSeD1993 11 months ago
@MrBolibob
Because projectors were capable of showing color, TV's were not. All those films you saw were recorded with a film camera, and meant for projection onto a screen. Color movies existed at that time, too.
Draknfyre 10 months ago
@Draknfyre oh you mean like super eight cameras?
MrBolibob 6 months ago
@MrBolibob
Kind of.
Color existed in theaters for a long time. Most of the Bugs Bunny cartoons were originally shown in theaters in the 40's and 50's (they even did special cartoons specifically for soldiers in World War 2.)
When color TV's hit the market, companies could start broadcasting those movies in color.
Draknfyre 6 months ago
@MrBolibob Color film has been around since the 1920's. It was just too expensive to use.
itsmegp46 6 months ago
@itsmegp46 @MrBolibob people already had hand-coulored cinematics around 1900, search the great train robberry colour, you're bound to find it then :D
MrBolibob 6 months ago
@MrBolibob Thanks for the information. However I was referring to celluloid film.
itsmegp46 6 months ago
@wiiplayer9isback It's too expensive now! To buy a new computer at £300 is a rip-off!
boffinme80 1 year ago
@wiiplayer9isback My Granddad paid over $600 for a black and white tv in 1950.
itsmegp46 1 year ago
@itsmegp46 My grandpa spent $550 for a 19" B&W Tube TV in 1953!
XmegaPresident 6 months ago
@wiiplayer9isback
A new Bel-Air was 1500$, this TV was only 500 less then a car:)
thedarkone2134 1 year ago
Germans had to wait another 14 years, but still use the better system ;-)
DominikDrinkhahn 1 year ago
Nice video!
mig189189189 1 year ago
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I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
stevekosareff 1 year ago
I have a related video on YouTube you might be interested in about how television sets were sold from the 1950s-1970s entitled, "TV MAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE LAST INDEPENDENT DEALER."
stevekosareff 1 year ago
$1000 in 1954 would be like $7000 in 2009
hectube1 1 year ago
...which is why so few of them were sold. it'd be the equivalent of someone buying a widescreen hd flatscreen 10 years or so ago. new technology is always expensive, remember bluray just a couple years ago?
rockabillycat1954 2 years ago
It would be about $8000 in today's dollars. People were paying more than that for plasmas when they first came out.
bfaulguy 2 years ago 2
for more information about this tv.Early tv history
peugeotrider2012 2 years ago 3
What did it cost back then?
CampKohler 3 years ago
Internet source says $1000 and only 5,000 were sold.
indenr 3 years ago
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peugteobike 3 years ago
i wonder how manny colors onsceen the first color tv was able to view at once.
today,s color tv,s could produce over 16,9 million colors atonce!!??
johneymute 3 years ago
It was an analog system so there isn't a direct way of comparing 'number of colors' which makes sense in a digital model but not in an analog one. You can look up charts of the colors within the NTSC color standard that apply and I'm guessing this set couldn't do the full standard but there is no number to quantify this.
idenr 3 years ago
Most LCD monitors "say" they can display 16.9 million colors but most "lie" as %90 of LCD monitors are cheap 6-bit TN panels they only display apx 262,000 colors. They use cheap dithering methods to fake 16.9 million.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago 5
How can I know which LCD monitors are able to display more colors and which less?
indenr 2 years ago
Avoid most cheap 6-bit "TN" panels and make sure you are getting a true 8-bit (or higher) panel like an "S-PVA" or "H-IPS" panel. These are found in higher end professional monitors that say a graphic designer would need. No dithering, no faking colors. Also the blacks don't "glow" when you look at it from an awkward angle. Mine's bad for that just a little too low and the blacks and darks look like crap.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
I do appreciate your information but I wonder how I as an ordinary consumer can find out which models of television offer the superior s-pva and h-ips technology since this spec if very rarely listed in the documents. Do you have a way of telling which models have which technology?
indenr 2 years ago
There are groups pushing for manufactures to have to display these specs as right now they don't have to. Read trusted reviews. Sony Bravia series for example use 10-bit S-PVA as does high end Samsung. H-IPS is LG and NEC. Fact is numbers on a box are meaningless. Response times and Contrast ratios too. Some manufactures do response tests on full color range, others only on black to white. Sometimes high contrast numbers = no gray scale response. Read reviews. That is all you can do.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
RCA, and its broadcast TV subsidiary, NBC, were virtually the only companies to "push" color TV in 1954; ABC didn't have the resources to "go" color at the time [and wouldn't until Septmeber 1962, with only two color series on their fall schedule, one being "THE FLINTSTONES"], and CBS presented a limited amount of color programming {mostly specials} until they "dropped out" in 1958, due to their rivalry with RCA/NBC, and wouldn't begin regular color telecasts until the fall of 1965!
fromthesidelines 3 years ago
I want one of these tvs
peugteobike 3 years ago
The television set ton the picture is aRCA CT-100. Yhe Chassis model is CTC 2
632838 5 years ago
does that mean the advertizing graphic artist put a different chassis on the CT-100, one that it wouldn't really have had when it was made.
idenr 5 years ago