Happy Birthday 1953NTSC Color :)

[Pete Deksnis]

Tried to interest the local Big Rapids newspaper in this bit of December 17, 1953 TV history, but to no avail

Sixty years ago today, television burst into color.

It was a long time coming, mid-1941 to late 1953, and long to be accepted by the black-and-white-TV-enamoured '50s public.

But the Big Rapids Pioneer didn't buy it.

This 'n That

As for behind-the-scenes developers of analog color television, these are some of the companies who contributed to the 1953 NTSC color television standard:

• American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
• Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation
• General Electric Company
• Hazeltine Research, Inc.
• N. V. Phillips' Gloeilanpamfabricken
• Philco Corporation
• Westinghouse Electric Corporation

It's a list that was compiled by RCA and appears on a label inside the cabinet of every CT-100 made.

In honor of the occasion, I have benched my CT-100 (see pix) and am giving her an electronic massage of sorts: fix a drifting brightness control (poor C7 ground), recalibrate the hue control, and so on...

I'll also investigate another CTC2 modification (the set had a composite input added in 2007 that was based upon a 1956 RCA circuit.) I hope now to add an S-video input based upon WA2WISE's concept presented here on AudioKarma a number of months ago. If successful, it should completely rid the 15GP22 image of all 'sparkling' around fine print and other such cross-color. Thanks to Cliff Benham who has loaned me a composite interface adapter for the project.

Full circle. Also, things keep moving forward and the future of TV is already here, due in no small part to one of our own members here at AudioKarma. A short quote if I may: "Working together with a team of Zenith research engineers, Wayne Bretl, Richard Citta, and Wayne Luplow created the digital high-definition technology now mandated by the FCC to replace the nation's ... old analog system." Not to worry, we'll all be keeping the old one alive

Pete