"World's First Color TV"

[Tom Albrecht]

Here's what Toshiba says about their own history on their website: http://us.toshiba.com/history-of-innovation

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We rank high on the list of Firsts

When you spend as much on R & D as Toshiba, you’re bound to set all kinds of records. And so we have. Not to brag, but since our bright beginnings over 135 years ago we’ve brought out innovative new technologies year after year.

Along with the world’s first mass market laptop computer, we also debuted the first color TV with black stripe-type cathode-ray tubes back in 1972. Later came the first wireless laptop to let you expand your computing beyond four walls with email and the Internet, followed by the world’s thinnest widescreen 12.1” laptop with a built-in optical drive to help you travel lighter. We’ve unwrapped many other originals, too—like the first DVD drive and color monitor in a laptop, plus the first 4-in-1 audio video laptop, just to name a few.

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All you have to do to get to CNN's incorrect statement is fail to understand that "the first color TV with black stripe CRT" is not quite the same as "the first color TV." And it would certainly help if you were not yet born in 1972!