Color TV Today and Tomorrow

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And it is STILL one of my favorite sets too. Since it is in a climate--controlled area--it seems to be holding up well. Last time I had it on--it still worked, though the red gun IS getting pretty weak in the crt. I just love that big chassis with those 3DG4 rects too. Directly across from that set...is a 1964 Zenith 25LC20 combo, that has a good tube--but with bad cataracts.

One thing the article, which I also have the same magazine issue of, did not mention--that has been said to have contributed to color's acceptance in about 1961-63...was Disney and "the wonderful world of color". According to a presentation at the ETF--Disney's 1961 decision did a lot to get stations--and consumers''to go for color". And now...since maybe the mid--to late-80's TV set advertisements do NOT usually say "color tv" since that is a given.

Also--Sony, of course...DID go ahead and take up the "chromatron tube" idea--and turn it into the "Trinitron", still a "mask type" tube, but with a radically different style of gun and HV convergence too. I have read that the amount of R&D required to bring the trinitron set to market by 1968, was a lot or expense for Sony...and had it failed...Sony would have too. Of course...we ALL know how that turned out.