Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!telecom-request From: sjr@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (Sander J. Rabinowitz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Early Color Television Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 91 17:25:06 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: sjr@mcimail.com Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 31 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 144, Message 5 of 10 H> john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) B> Richard Budd (18 Feb 91 20:15 CDT) H> No color television? Speak for yourself, Pat. [...] H> I distinctly remember watching (of all things) the Perry Como show on H> NBC on Saturday nights because it was very much in color on the H> neighbor's RCA color TV. (The first color TV I ever saw was in 1956.) B> Actually, color television has been around longer than either Pat or B> John (if I deduce correctly from their high school graduation dates B> that they were born in the early 1940's). It's been available since B> the early 1930's, though before World War II it was strictly B> experimental. Hmmm ... that's very interesting. It seems like if color television was around _that_ early, that it must be of the mechanical, spinning disk variety. Having said that, how long has the NTSC-compatible color TV system been around? B> Color television wasn't rare, but color television programming B> certainly was before 1965. What I find amazing was that there was technology to _record_ color TV through videotape in the early 50's. I believe that was done with the late Mary Martin's "Peter Pan" TV special in 1954, and that has got to be the earliest videotape on record. Sander J. Rabinowitz | sjr@mcimail.com -or- | +1 313 478 6358 Farmington Hills, Mich. | sander@attmail.com | 8-)