Early TV / Color TV magazine articles

[old_tv_nut]

I have added a number of newly scanned early TV articles to my web site.

Go to www.bretl.com and click on
Early TV/Color TV Articles

[newhallone]

I have a few articles I have been meaning to scan and put online as well. Hopefully I will get a little break from work soon to get a couple projects done before the snow flies. Cool articles!

[firenzeprima]

thanks for the many interesting articles.

[newhallone]

I found a site that has some more old articles. A little bit of everything here.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/covers

[newhallone]

I found a site that has some more old articles. A little bit of everything here.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/covers

[John Folsom]

Thanks Wayne for the great articles. I very much enjoyed the articles on the CBS drum field sequential set, and the great article on G-Y/R-Y demodulation.

[old_tv_nut]

That article on G-Y is mostly nonsense. While it's true that the G-Y demodulator needs only low gain to recover the G-Y signal, the G-Y and R-Y still contain only small proportions of B-Y and have to be amplified to the equivalant extent of a B-Y demodulator before matrixing to form the B-Y. Therefore, there is no net noise advantage. One real reason for G-Y demodulation was to try to avoid some patents on R-Y and B-Y demoduation circuits.

The way the demodulation and matrixing works is this:
R-Y is equivalent to a lot of negative G-Y and a little negative B-Y. G-Y is equivalent to a lot of negative R-Y and a little negative B-Y. Therefore, add a lot of negative R-Y to a lot of negative G-Y (in the right proportions), you cancel out a really large R-Y and/or G-Y component and leave a normal B-Y.

Edit: This could actually be a disadvantage, because the accuracy of the B-Y is now dependent on the matrix resistor values canceling the large R-Y and G-Y components.

[bozey45]

Loved the article on the "World's largest TV Studio" that being 8-H at NBC in N.Y. On the part where they show the diagram of the studio, I notice Arturo Toscannini had his own dressing room; guess the conductor of the NBC Symphony had a lot of pull back then.

[old_tv_nut]

one pager from Popular Mechanics 50th Anniversary issue , January 1952

[old_tv_nut]

added Jan 1950 Popular Mechanix and 1964 Fall/Winter Sears catalog pages to web site:

http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/pm0152/pm0152.htm

http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/sears64fw/sears64fw.htm

[old_tv_nut]

Added to my web site: an article from June 1946 Popular Science, "Television Reaches Out"
http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/tvarticles.htm

[wkand]

Who was making the Sears color sets in 1964? Was Warwick part of the equation yet? Were these RCS clones like so many others?

[bgadow]

They were definately RCA clones; I am pretty certain they were Warwick.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Go to www.bretl.com and click on
Early TV/Color TV Articles

In the 1946 article, at the end they comment on B&W will not be obsoleted any more than standard band broadcasting (AM radio) was obsoleted by FM. SOunds like NTSC and ATSC DTV...

[old_tv_nut]

Posted some TV Guide articles, some of which were posted to Audiokarma before. New is complete TV Guide for the Chicago/Milwaukee/Southbend area, 28 April 1956 (2 weeks after WNBQ had announced all-color local live production)

http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/tvarticles.htm