who designed the sets..and how..

[marty59]

cbenham...not to disagree with you completely, but look at it this way. As wonderful as the development of color tv is, it wasn't until the late mid 60's on before there was any real "portability" in color tv. As novel as color was in the early days (and to many people) B&W tv still dominated. Many households had the "color" as the main set but elsewhere were the portable B&W's...And the Old B&W console relegated to the basement.

We had to wait for engineering and the advanvement of technology to give us portable and more affordable color. At least with the RCA color system there was no worry of any broadcast media becoming obsolete. And it is clever to put the color burst information on the "back porch" of the carrier as to not interfere with B&W. Plus, the change-over to broadcast to color was easier to adopt (but costly too).

Could you imagine such a drastic changeover occuring back then like what we've had to deal with going over to digital/HDTV? Our Grandparents would have thought the sky was falling!!

It continues to amaze me to this day of the pioneering spirit and all that has been contributed for our benefit. And at least (with a converter box, etc) we can still watch out B&W's too!!