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Originally Posted by trinescope
What, then, in your opinion was the Westinghouse set? Were they also pushing for FCC acceptance, or just trying to be first on the market with new technology?
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I've read less history on the Westinghouse set but given it beat RCA to market you can bet that it's electronic design was started well before the FCC approved compatible color. I think I've read of Westinghouse sets found with CRTs labeled with the developmental ID number that preceeded the 15GP22 number being assigned to it, and I think I have read of prototype models of it existing.... I'm probably going to go back and do some reading on this when I get a chance.
Many manufacturers even ones that waited nearly a decade to sell color sets to consumers (I'm looking at you Zenith) had FCC demonstration prototypes.