I was in television broadcasting in1965, at an ABC affiliate in the Mountain West. Until we purchased our first video tape recorders that summer (both were Ampex), everything in our studio, control room and our mountaintop transmitter were all RCA. (We didn't originate any live color. Our studio cameras were RCA TK-30's.) And of course, almost exclusively vacuum tube-driven. Occasionally, the camera circuitry would generate "noise" in their video output and the control room engineer's instruction was always: "Slap the side of the camera with your hand!" It ALWAYS cleared the problem! The stuff was built like Sherman tanks. It's heartbreaking to realize that today, RCA is nothing more than a mostly forgotten name. A sad demise of a once great American company, all mostly destroyed by their own stockholders, who were only concerned with the value of their shares. Plus, we failed to see that Japan, while not necessarily inventors, were genius at innovation and improvement. BTW, I'm not bitching; merely observing.
I have been working in tape since it was invented. Ampex made the finest videotape machines in the business. Cant say the same for RCA. I worked on every broadcast video tape machine that Ampex made. The AVR-1 was thier best machine. So good the the AVR-1 electronics were used in the AXR-25 (which RCA copied as the TCR-100) RCA had developed the color circuitry for the Ampex machines and would share it with Ampex in exchange to allow RCA to develop and sell thier own version of the "quad". Ampex came out with a far superior color circuitry 6 mo later on thier own. Ampex was always the best at magnetic recording I did have the misfortune of working on a RCA TR-70, TR-600 both i wouldn't use as a door stop. I got out of the biz when 1" was coming into play. Don't even get me started with helical....
Some things are worth bishing about and the loss of companies like RCA are an unfrogiveable loss. The backstory and actors behind the curtain are even more important but, some idols are heavily protected from ciritcism.
I just checked and in 1964, RCA announced list price of their cheapest models as $450. With inflation that is equivalent to about $4500 today! As a kid in the late-sixties I would visit a certain Quasar Television store to marvel at the color TVs on display.
Those early RCA color TVs were outstanding. My parents purchased a 1965 RCA 25" Console TV with the square type tube and that TV lasted about 20 years. Every year we'd have to replace a tube, and maybe 4 or 5 times the TV repair guy had to do more than swap a tube out, but we got tens of thousands of hours of quality entertainment out of that set, and a great picture.
And how about giving the 1950 tru 1960s tv,s a """BOOST""" to WAKE UP the PICTURE BRIGHTNESS on our OLYMPIC TV SET we had from 1958 tru 1978 and by 73 it recieved its FIRST BOOST and ONCE MORE IN 75 but the TV could only take 2 BOOST and then """PASSED AWAY QUUETLY""" and the old REAL WOODEN CABINET MISS OLYMPIC resided in is STILL WITH US !!!!! Never heard of that cursed word back then when every CAR & APPLIANCE lasted 35 or MORE years and that word is == RECALL !!!
Yup. I remember watching TV shows, "In Living Color!" on our B&W TV. We finally got a real color TV (21" Magnavox) in 1968 and it was just amazing to see for the first time. I also remember the privilege of getting to take the tubes out every year, put them in a bag, and ride them down to the Rexall Drug Store on my bicycle where they had a tube tester and racks of replacement tubes. I really loved doing that.
@@JiveDadson The Magnaox color TV we got in 1968 had an Instant On feature. The picture tube and tube cathode heaters were on all the time and that let the TV come on right away. It used a lot of power while off though and Dad didn't like the way the electric bill went up after we got it. He eventually turned off the Instant On switch in the back and told us to just wait for the TV to come on.
The whole technology and the manufactoring process of those color tv’s were/are just mind blowing. Hence the term “ behind each ordinary lies an extraordinary”😁
Bandersentv has got 2 color roundies he just received. He just recently posted some triage/resurrection videos of those. Shango is the king of roundies though. Rat turd infested and all, he gets them to come to life again. He is truly gifted.
@@garp32 Shango is honest with his videos no grandstanding just enjoying his life. I have learnt a lot from him that I should have known fifty years ago or maybe I did and have forgotten. Best Wishes
@@garp32 Unfortunately, no one is rebuilding the tubes anymore. After 60 years, the laminating resins deteriorate and cloud over. Fortunately, through the 1960s, they developed other implosion protections, such as tension bands around the rim.
@@dougbrowning82 Shango066 seems to be successful in removing the 'cataract', we need YT "Glasslinger" to learn to re-gun the tubes with a fresh cathode he is very skilled at making Valves (tubes).
The first time I saw color TV, in the early 60s, was a commercial for Folgers coffee. I remember like it was yesterday because it made such an impression.
Meanwhile, at the Osaki West Technology Center, Sony was working on a much better CRT, with inline electron guns for better convergence and geometry and a slotted shadow mask, which allowed far more electrons through for a brighter, more contrasty image. They also developed the "Sony Red" phosphor with a deep, ruby-red color, the RCA phosphor was always kind of brown.
We did not get one till 78 and it was a used Admiral TV set that still used tubes. We would have to go to the 7-11 to test them when they would go bad on the little standup console that has a bunch of knobs and a thick phonebook sized manual where you would look up the tube number and then dial up the knobs on the tester to verify the tube. They had boxed replacement boxed tubes in the bottom section.
Here in South Africa, we only got colour television and colour broadcast in 1976. The same year that I was born. Growing up, I considered it a first birthday gift to me. 😄
This film was made circa 1963, perhaps a year or two later, not 1953. There were no rectangular color picture tubes in 1953. The TV shown at 18:56 is much newer than 1953. The first rectangular color CRT TV's hit the market circa 1965. I enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting.
I remember the ads for RCA products during "Walt DIsney Presents" every Sunday night. Also I had RCA records, especially the Heifetz recordings of violin concertos. In the 80's the RCA brand still had value but cd's under that label were made by "BMG", a German music company.
I must have changed at least 100 CRTs (picture tubes) out of TV sets back in the early 1970s when I spent sometime as a TV technician. Boring work but there was plenty of it. Just a memory now though.
I was home the afternoon when our first color TV was delivered and installed. Star Trek was on and the tech said that the show's colors were strange and he had trouble adjusting them.
A primeira gravação teste de um filme à cores que tem aqui no YT é de 1900. O cinema à cores começou a ser impulsionado nos anos 30 e 40. Era questão de tempo para isso parar dentro de um tubo na sala de uma casa.
I can still hear mt grandfather saying, "Why would I spend good money on a color TV set when everything I want to watch is in B&W?" He had a good point (and a Zenith console) and it would be another decade before the family had a new 25" Magnavox Color TV! My other grandparents had RCA, but watched the moon landing on a B&W 19" Panasonic with rabbit ears.
Well there are some that think that steam locomotives were better than diesel’s. Obviously diesel is better in all levels but steam is just a novelty now and fine for museums.
The "frit" is a mix of powdered glass and lead. Lead is also used in the phosphorus coatings. I worked at a CRT factory in 2000, and for most of the processes shown here, we wore serious hazmat type masks because of the lead exposure risk. These maskless people in the video are being exposed to dangerous levels of lead dust. I shudder to think of what happened to them.
At 8:28 the tube volume tests looked like they pumped a whole lot of mercury up the funnel. At 6 minutes there is a liquid cleaning step that probably wouldn’t pass these days. Really fantastic movie! Thanks for posting.
You younger folks may not believe this but once upon a time, not only did we make these in America, but EVERY part of the raw materials sourcing and supply chain was in America. We had American workers involved in every part of manufacturing. Now it all comes on a ship from China or South Korea... Where the hell did we go so wrong? 😞
Almost every American manufacturer sued in Federal Court over unfair trade practices by the Japanese (dumping.) Every presidential administration from Nixon to Reagan had it thrown out for fear of offending our ally Japan.
Whenever I see stuff like this, I remember that Family Guy episode with old man turning a lamp on and off: "What? You don't think this is amazing? When I saw this at the 1904 World's fair, I nearly crapped my pants!"
1:57 I really, but really find that hard to believe. I had to listen many times and turned on the captions to hear this, "investment of 130 billion dollars". The inflation calculator says, $130 billion in 1953 would be approximately $1.53 trillion in 2024. 1 I think the narrator misspoke.
The technology for TV is related to the technology for Radar, which RCA had been involved in for about 15 years by 1953. With a bit of elastic accounting it probably is around 130 billion. It depends what you include under the heading “TV research”.
And within a year, RCA would start the development of the Videodisc (CED) A product so revolutionary that it would take a mere 17 years for it to be released to the public.
Ah to good old days when the US made quality products before the shipped it off shore to elcheapo China. What were the round picture tubes used for , radar or traffic control. I can't imagine watching a TV program on a round screen..
Ads for color TVs never have been able to beat the one problem they all have: Your new TV may have the greatest colors ever, but how do I tell when I'm watching it on my old crappy screen?
I don’t know if they would’ve broadcast such a long film very often, maybe it was for a venue other than TV. Also remember, that in 1963, there weren’t big box stores. You could probably go to a local department store, or even local small television shops, and see demonstrations of all the new color television sets.
Many families only had B&W tv sets. So the problem was how to make color broadcast signals that B&W tv sets could receive. RCA engineers found a way to do it and so we could then watch shows broadcast in color on our B&W sets.
I'm skipping the fancy-pants color models. Don't need 'em. Black and white is fine with me. I'm sticking with my black and white TV until the picture tube blows.
Some of those 60 year old B&W tubes are still going strong today. As long as they give good emission and cut off, they will deliver a decent picture, it's mainly the supporting electronics that need restoration. Just watch out for laminated screens with cataracts.
Round tubes are such a waste compared to the rectangle, when in its case there’s overlap and unused area on the round one where the square one uses its whole face.
And you just figured this out? Trying to keep the alignment (RGB) in color tubes was tough and it got harder in the corners. The manufacturers spent decades trying to get those corners 'square'. By the early 1970's the radius of the corners was almost square but i think Sony was the first really square cornered display in the late 1970's. The last advance for CRT display was going bigger than 25 inches which only became a thing in the late 1980's. That required a lot of signal processing because at broadcast resolution the edges of lines were all blurry in broadcast resolution when you went much larger than 25 inches.. The appearance of digital HD TV solved the big screen resolution issue.
The rectangular picture tube production shown here must've been awfully new; I don't think the U.S. rectangular sets were in the market until the '65 model year (autumn '64). That probably explains the (disappointing) absence of much detail about them here. Too bad - the differences between a roundie and a rectangular were significant (funnel...) and complicated (deflection...)!
@@dougbrowning82 Right, much easier, and not solely because of the glassware; the deflection circuitry was also a different animal. Illuminating a rectangular screen from the same signal that illuminates a round one requires different logic, whether B&W or color ("Like going from algebra to calculus" ~ what was linear in a roundie had to be parabolic in a rectangular). Still wonder how they blew (spun?) the glass for the rectangular ones. I'll bet there were some clever solutions in place; also, somewhere they were able to merge the two lines for the last few finishing steps.
Picture tubes production moved to Malaysia, and around 2006, the engineers abandoned the factories and left the workers to Mickey Mouse picture tubes together. LCD sort of sucks. I like OLED and NTSC, not digital.
@@AdamBorseti I realize that, but they look like a patch that would normally go on the shoulder or front of a uniform. Generally patches on the back of a coat or jacket or something like that are huge, 9 inches in diameter, 12 inches in diameter, whatever. These look like someone was drunk that day at the uniform factory and sewed them in the wrong spot.
Another comment said he actually said million. It did sound like billion to me also but that couldn't possibly be correct. $130 billion in 1965 is equivalent to roughly $1.3 trillion today.
This film could NOT have been from 1962. The RCA CTC-19 was the first rectangular RCA color television to hit the market in 1965. The RCA CTC-17 the first rectangular 23 (25) inch set was released a year later. It would not be logical to make a marketing video 4 years before the sets were introduced as it would have stifled the market until there release.
This is the definition of skilled labor. What an impressive process.
I was in television broadcasting in1965, at an ABC affiliate in the Mountain West. Until we purchased our first video tape recorders that summer (both were Ampex), everything in our studio, control room and our mountaintop transmitter were all RCA. (We didn't originate any live color. Our studio cameras were RCA TK-30's.) And of course, almost exclusively vacuum tube-driven. Occasionally, the camera circuitry would generate "noise" in their video output and the control room engineer's instruction was always: "Slap the side of the camera with your hand!" It ALWAYS cleared the problem! The stuff was built like Sherman tanks. It's heartbreaking to realize that today, RCA is nothing more than a mostly forgotten name. A sad demise of a once great American company, all mostly destroyed by their own stockholders, who were only concerned with the value of their shares. Plus, we failed to see that Japan, while not necessarily inventors, were genius at innovation and improvement. BTW, I'm not bitching; merely observing.
Ironically Japan today followed the same fate.
I have been working in tape since it was invented. Ampex made the finest videotape machines in the business. Cant say the same for RCA. I worked on every broadcast video tape machine that Ampex made. The AVR-1 was thier best machine. So good the the AVR-1 electronics were used in the AXR-25 (which RCA copied as the TCR-100)
RCA had developed the color circuitry for the Ampex machines and would share it with Ampex in exchange to allow RCA to develop and sell thier own version of the "quad". Ampex came out with a far superior color circuitry 6 mo later on thier own.
Ampex was always the best at magnetic recording
I did have the misfortune of working on a RCA TR-70, TR-600 both i wouldn't use as a door stop.
I got out of the biz when 1" was coming into play. Don't even get me started with helical....
Some things are worth bishing about and the loss of companies like RCA are an unfrogiveable loss. The backstory and actors behind the curtain are even more important but, some idols are heavily protected from ciritcism.
I am impressed by the production back then, highly advanced at the time.
I just checked and in 1964, RCA announced list price of their cheapest models as $450.
With inflation that is equivalent to about $4500 today! As a kid in the late-sixties I would visit a certain Quasar Television store to marvel at the color TVs on display.
Those early RCA color TVs were outstanding. My parents purchased a 1965 RCA 25" Console TV with the square type tube and that TV lasted about 20 years. Every year we'd have to replace a tube, and maybe 4 or 5 times the TV repair guy had to do more than swap a tube out, but we got tens of thousands of hours of quality entertainment out of that set, and a great picture.
And how about giving the 1950 tru 1960s tv,s a """BOOST""" to WAKE UP the PICTURE BRIGHTNESS on our OLYMPIC TV SET we had from 1958 tru 1978 and by 73 it recieved its FIRST BOOST and ONCE MORE IN 75 but the TV could only take 2 BOOST and then """PASSED AWAY QUUETLY""" and the old REAL WOODEN CABINET MISS OLYMPIC resided in is STILL WITH US !!!!! Never heard of that cursed word back then when every CAR & APPLIANCE lasted 35 or MORE years and that word is == RECALL !!!
You must not have watched a lot of TV. Our set from '67 didn't make it to '73.
Yup. I remember watching TV shows, "In Living Color!" on our B&W TV. We finally got a real color TV (21" Magnavox) in 1968 and it was just amazing to see for the first time. I also remember the privilege of getting to take the tubes out every year, put them in a bag, and ride them down to the Rexall Drug Store on my bicycle where they had a tube tester and racks of replacement tubes. I really loved doing that.
We had one also. It warmed up fast.
@@JiveDadson The Magnaox color TV we got in 1968 had an Instant On feature. The picture tube and tube cathode heaters were on all the time and that let the TV come on right away. It used a lot of power while off though and Dad didn't like the way the electric bill went up after we got it. He eventually turned off the Instant On switch in the back and told us to just wait for the TV to come on.
The whole technology and the manufactoring process of those color tv’s were/are just mind blowing.
Hence the term “ behind each ordinary lies an extraordinary”😁
At that time, television was a favorite and felt like fun with the family. Not being an individual who is busy with social media like today.
It amazing these marvels of technology actually worked. B/W tube TVs were so much simpler.
The 1960s was a little before my time. It seems like a whole different world. Thank you for saving this piece of history.
Shango066 tirelessly resurrects Roundy TV's his channel is a good watch.
Bandersentv has got 2 color roundies he just received. He just recently posted some triage/resurrection videos of those. Shango is the king of roundies though. Rat turd infested and all, he gets them to come to life again. He is truly gifted.
@@garp32 Shango is honest with his videos no grandstanding just enjoying his life. I have learnt a lot from him that I should have known fifty years ago or maybe I did and have forgotten. Best Wishes
@@garp32 Unfortunately, no one is rebuilding the tubes anymore. After 60 years, the laminating resins deteriorate and cloud over. Fortunately, through the 1960s, they developed other implosion protections, such as tension bands around the rim.
@@dougbrowning82 Shango066 seems to be successful in removing the 'cataract', we need YT "Glasslinger" to learn to re-gun the tubes with a fresh cathode he is very skilled at making Valves (tubes).
The first time I saw color TV, in the early 60s, was a commercial for Folgers coffee. I remember like it was yesterday because it made such an impression.
Meanwhile, at the Osaki West Technology Center, Sony was working on a much better CRT, with inline electron guns for better convergence and geometry and a slotted shadow mask, which allowed far more electrons through for a brighter, more contrasty image. They also developed the "Sony Red" phosphor with a deep, ruby-red color, the RCA phosphor was always kind of brown.
OMG! And now it's all obsolete. I was there. It was amazing.
We didn't get our first color set until 1970 - we thought it was the greatest thing ever invented LOL!!
We did not get one till 78 and it was a used Admiral TV set that still used tubes. We would have to go to the 7-11 to test them when they would go bad on the little standup console that has a bunch of knobs and a thick phonebook sized manual where you would look up the tube number and then dial up the knobs on the tester to verify the tube. They had boxed replacement boxed tubes in the bottom section.
Here in South Africa, we only got colour television and colour broadcast in 1976. The same year that I was born. Growing up, I considered it a first birthday gift to me. 😄
I prefer it when things were just black or white, now we have rainbows everywhere and life is complicated.
@@WOFFY-qc9te Rainbows with severe identity crisis. 😄
🤣
How funny that the blue and green in this film are almost the same color thanks to aging of the film stock.
Yes, I had assumed that the digital color restoration would have improved that.
Indeed some colour correction is needed.
The red still looks brilliant, green is still green, but it seems like the blue is what gets the most lost as this kind of film stock ages.
Yep it's all faded to blue. 😮 wait, are you guys saying it's green? I only see red and 2 shades of blue 🟥🟦🔷️
Holy shit, now I know why we couldn't afford a color tv in 1963 when I was a kid.
Color TVs did not outsell B/W TVs until 1972! (9 years AFTER this was made) It was a rich man's product before then!
@@jamesslick4790 You could still buy small B&W TVs in the 1980s.
This film was made circa 1963, perhaps a year or two later, not 1953. There were no rectangular color picture tubes in 1953. The TV shown at 18:56 is much newer than 1953. The first rectangular color CRT TV's hit the market circa 1965. I enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting.
@lesdabney2144 you are 100% right we will fix this.
Don't get fooled, the tube is still round.
Largest CRT ever SONY 43" 440lbs, I have changed 1 once, ONCE!
Had an XBR9 Studio Grade, only thing I could watch HD was via antenna initially. The Olympic Games were on at the time.
My gawd, poor you! Heck, I thought wrestling 25-inchers was a bear :)
I thought my RCA F38310 had the biggest "jug" ever but it seems there was one even bigger, and more than twice as heavy.
I remember the ads for RCA products during "Walt DIsney Presents" every Sunday night. Also I had RCA records, especially the Heifetz recordings of violin concertos. In the 80's the RCA brand still had value but cd's under that label were made by "BMG", a German music company.
The target audience would be seeing this ad in Black and White 😂
This was likely shown in cinemas.
I must have changed at least 100 CRTs (picture tubes) out of TV sets back in the early 1970s when I spent sometime as a TV technician. Boring work but there was plenty of it. Just a memory now though.
Not so boring when you get “bit” by the fly-back x-former..
Not so boring when you get “bit” by the Fly Back transformer..
I was home the afternoon when our first color TV was delivered and installed. Star Trek was on and the tech said that the show's colors were strange and he had trouble adjusting them.
A primeira gravação teste de um filme à cores que tem aqui no YT é de 1900. O cinema à cores começou a ser impulsionado nos anos 30 e 40. Era questão de tempo para isso parar dentro de um tubo na sala de uma casa.
I can still hear mt grandfather saying, "Why would I spend good money on a color TV set when everything I want to watch is in B&W?" He had a good point (and a Zenith console) and it would be another decade before the family had a new 25" Magnavox Color TV! My other grandparents had RCA, but watched the moon landing on a B&W 19" Panasonic with rabbit ears.
You didn't miss much, as the moon landing was in B&W. They didn't carry colour TV cameras until a couple of landings later.
Well there are some that think that steam locomotives were better than diesel’s. Obviously diesel is better in all levels but steam is just a novelty now and fine for museums.
The "frit" is a mix of powdered glass and lead. Lead is also used in the phosphorus coatings. I worked at a CRT factory in 2000, and for most of the processes shown here, we wore serious hazmat type masks because of the lead exposure risk. These maskless people in the video are being exposed to dangerous levels of lead dust. I shudder to think of what happened to them.
At 8:28 the tube volume tests looked like they pumped a whole lot of mercury up the funnel. At 6 minutes there is a liquid cleaning step that probably wouldn’t pass these days. Really fantastic movie! Thanks for posting.
You younger folks may not believe this but once upon a time, not only did we make these in America, but EVERY part of the raw materials sourcing and supply chain was in America. We had American workers involved in every part of manufacturing. Now it all comes on a ship from China or South Korea...
Where the hell did we go so wrong? 😞
We let the money-men, rather than the people who actually invent, innovate and manufacture, take over and outsource supply and jobs overseas.
Almost every American manufacturer sued in Federal Court over unfair trade practices by the Japanese (dumping.) Every presidential administration from Nixon to Reagan had it thrown out for fear of offending our ally Japan.
And all of us here who are complaining about overseas jobs are using a phone or tablet made in Malaysia.
@@jimmyday9536no choice everything is made overseas now.
People voted for Democrats that implemented stupid regulations that chased the jobs away. Then the union pigs didn’t help matters.
The key was it to be backward compatible with the B&W signal utilizing the 3.58 MHz color burst freq.
Holy Cow! If we still made T.V.'s THIS way they would cost $20,000.00!
Whenever I see stuff like this, I remember that Family Guy episode with old man turning a lamp on and off:
"What? You don't think this is amazing? When I saw this at the 1904 World's fair, I nearly crapped my pants!"
1:57 I really, but really find that hard to believe. I had to listen many times and turned on the captions to hear this, "investment of 130 billion dollars". The inflation calculator says, $130 billion in 1953 would be approximately $1.53 trillion in 2024. 1 I think the narrator misspoke.
The technology for TV is related to the technology for Radar, which RCA had been involved in for about 15 years by 1953. With a bit of elastic accounting it probably is around 130 billion. It depends what you include under the heading “TV research”.
100million in 1954
Even back then, we needed that money for UKRAINE!!!
You misheard. The narrator said $130 million, not billion.
I had an RCA 35" in 1993 that thing weighed over 300 pounds!
This film helps me see the "picture "
And within a year, RCA would start the development of the Videodisc (CED)
A product so revolutionary that it would take a mere 17 years for it to be released to the public.
RCA pioneered the color Tv way back. If My memory serves me correctly.
Ah to good old days when the US made quality products before the shipped it off shore to elcheapo China. What were the round picture tubes used for , radar or traffic control. I can't imagine watching a TV program on a round screen..
Ads for color TVs never have been able to beat the one problem they all have: Your new TV may have the greatest colors ever, but how do I tell when I'm watching it on my old crappy screen?
Or if you've already bought the brand being advertised, you now no longer need to see the ad.
This was from an era where people trusted brands, especially American.
It's like seeing Nvidia showing off their 200FPS 8K gaming on YT. All those $$$ spent on commercials no one can see, 🤨
I don’t know if they would’ve broadcast such a long film very often, maybe it was for a venue other than TV. Also remember, that in 1963, there weren’t big box stores. You could probably go to a local department store, or even local small television shops, and see demonstrations of all the new color television sets.
Calibration.
Many families only had B&W tv sets. So the problem was how to make color broadcast signals that B&W tv sets could receive.
RCA engineers found a way to do it and so we could then watch shows broadcast in color on our B&W sets.
Broadcast resolution 330lines max 525 capable. VHS tape 200, DVD480.
I'm skipping the fancy-pants color models. Don't need 'em. Black and white is fine with me. I'm sticking with my black and white TV until the picture tube blows.
Some of those 60 year old B&W tubes are still going strong today. As long as they give good emission and cut off, they will deliver a decent picture, it's mainly the supporting electronics that need restoration. Just watch out for laminated screens with cataracts.
Only rich folks had a Color TV in 1963!
Round tubes are such a waste compared to the rectangle, when in its case there’s overlap and unused area on the round one where the square one uses its whole face.
And you just figured this out? Trying to keep the alignment (RGB) in color tubes was tough and it got harder in the corners. The manufacturers spent decades trying to get those corners 'square'. By the early 1970's the radius of the corners was almost square but i think Sony was the first really square cornered display in the late 1970's. The last advance for CRT display was going bigger than 25 inches which only became a thing in the late 1980's. That required a lot of signal processing because at broadcast resolution the edges of lines were all blurry in broadcast resolution when you went much larger than 25 inches.. The appearance of digital HD TV solved the big screen resolution issue.
I am severely nearsighted enough to know this firsthand...that color tv sets had dots and black & white tv sets had hoizontal lines 👀
Rare!
Ironically, film was the only way to record this, and all the BLUE is almost entirely gone.
The technology behind Color TV might have improved, but the programming certainly hasn't. 😅
The rectangular picture tube production shown here must've been awfully new; I don't think the U.S. rectangular sets were in the market until the '65 model year (autumn '64). That probably explains the (disappointing) absence of much detail about them here.
Too bad - the differences between a roundie and a rectangular were significant (funnel...) and complicated (deflection...)!
Round tubes were easier to produce. Even B&W tubes started out round, but they got rectangular in the early 50s.
@@dougbrowning82 Right, much easier, and not solely because of the glassware; the deflection circuitry was also a different animal. Illuminating a rectangular screen from the same signal that illuminates a round one requires different logic, whether B&W or color ("Like going from algebra to calculus" ~ what was linear in a roundie had to be parabolic in a rectangular).
Still wonder how they blew (spun?) the glass for the rectangular ones. I'll bet there were some clever solutions in place; also, somewhere they were able to merge the two lines for the last few finishing steps.
Now its all about saving money and sending manufacturing to Other countries
first set $1300 about 15k today
Color tv was invented in Mexico by Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
It was secuencial color.
Picture tubes production moved to Malaysia, and around 2006, the engineers abandoned the factories and left the workers to Mickey Mouse picture tubes together. LCD sort of sucks. I like OLED and NTSC, not digital.
Color sets did not outsell black & white sets until 1972!
🌟
RCA went bankrupt spending about a billion dollars on the CED videodisc technology.
Why do they all have a patch on their back?
They're uniforms.
@@AdamBorseti I realize that, but they look like a patch that would normally go on the shoulder or front of a uniform. Generally patches on the back of a coat or jacket or something like that are huge, 9 inches in diameter, 12 inches in diameter, whatever. These look like someone was drunk that day at the uniform factory and sewed them in the wrong spot.
Hang on....rectangular color picture tubes in 1963? I dont think so, the first TVs with those new tubes came out in 1965/66
Press the chroma button for B/W!
Did they really spend over 130 billion dollars for color tv development? Seems a lot for the time
Another comment said he actually said million. It did sound like billion to me also but that couldn't possibly be correct. $130 billion in 1965 is equivalent to roughly $1.3 trillion today.
This film could NOT have been from 1962. The RCA CTC-19 was the first rectangular RCA color television to hit the market in 1965. The RCA CTC-17 the first rectangular 23 (25) inch set was released a year later. It would not be logical to make a marketing video 4 years before the sets were introduced as it would have stifled the market until there release.