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Originally Posted by miniman82
So here's something I never really understood about the CBS sets: there's the slave an companion, what's the difference? ETF site says the slave has to be connected to a B&W receiver, I presume to rob it's tuner input or something. But does that mean the companion has it's own tuner and stuff, so it can operate by itself?
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Nick,
In essence, To receive color on the tunerless slave set you did require two TV receivers in your living room. If CBS-Columbia had their way one of the TV's would be the slave set to reproduce the color image and the other set would be a CBS-Columbia "Convertible" set that, has electronic outputs, & supplied the tuner if & sound components. The convertible set also had a special output plug on the back to connect it to the slave sets input to receive the video & sound. The slave set had the electronic sync elements fed to the color wheel to convert the inputed info to a color image. Not exactly a success as who needed 2 tv's taking up space to receive the non-compatible color images. The 1951 CBS-Columbia ad further explains: