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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
I especally want ot know what other sets besides R.C.A. had also good picture?
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I think it depends on the adjustments rather than in the technology. Again and again I read in old books and also here in the forum that the early Kinescope crt's have low brightness so you have to wait until evening or you have to dim the room to watch tv.
In a German history book for the development of color tv, Walter Haas, "Farbfernsehen - ein Geschenk unseres Jahrhunderts" (Color tv - a gift of our century), written 1967, I read in a passage about a German foreign journalist in New York 1964, who had trouble with his color tv receiver:
"... It lasts a long time until the licenced t.v. serviceman arrived. 'You need a transformer', he said, while he fetched the beer from the refrigerator. 'Remember the poor people', he added, 'which bought a color tv receiver in 1956. They have to sit in dark rooms. When lovers switch off the lights at that time, they want to see color tv..."
I think the old tv sets are made worser than they really were. With a good and fresh crt and well adjusted circuits there is also tv watching with daylight possible. Here is a comparison with a 1968 PAL hybrid set with a strong Permachrom tube (A66-120X). Remember, the 21APX22A is nearly 50 years old.
The minor sharpness and color fringings on the ctc-5 depends on artefacts while converting the PAL signal to NTSC.
But to avoid a wrong impression: I have a robust NTSC signal source without any drift in the color carrier. The contrast range of the PAL y-signal is larger than in NTSC, therefore I get a contrast-richer picture here than in the U.S.. My PAL to NTSC converter is a 30-EUR-cheap one from the U.K., which only converts the color carrier frequency and lower the video response down to 3 Mc. Color programs in the 1950's weren't as natural as today's programs. Fleshtones aren't reliable enough because of camera technics, and tv-servicemen hadn't the experience in adjusting a set like those in the 1960's or 1970's. What I'd like to demonstrate is to show, that the possibility of true living color reproduction was almost given in the 1950's.