America was still in black and white in 1954

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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Wow. More AI-voiced crap, written by someone who did 7th-grade level research and glommed onto one scientist's papers. I fear this is evidence that the true history of technology is going to be obliterated in favor of AI hallucinations in the future.

~24:07 Shows a late 1960s RCA receiver ad with the stupidly incorrect date of 1954 above it. There were no rectangular tube sets sold before the late 60s.

I have the same worries about AI stuff and I wish YouTube would put a warning on AI videos for people who don't want to watch them.


One small nit to pick.
The first rectangular color sets were sold by Westinghouse and CBS in 1957...They ended up mostly recalled, but a few survived that. There's even a Sam's Photofact on them.
https://earlytelevision.org/westinghouse_h22t155.html

Didn't the 23EGP22 sets come out in late 1964 as 65 models?