Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CBS retorts that definition isn't everything. More important, it claims, is the amount of "information" the picture conveys to the eye. The faithful colors in its system, CBS insists, give so much extra information that the viewer is glad to sacrifice a little definition...
Degradation. Both RCA and CBS are highly skilled at pointing out faults in the other company's system. First, says RCA, the CBS pictures are "degraded." This means that CBS, to increase the number of pictures per second and thereby avoid flicker, has had to reduce the number of scanned lines in each picture from 525 to 405. Thus, the "definition" is reduced and the grain of the picture is made coarser, like a newspaper cut compared to an illustration in a slick-paper magazine...
...compatible" with the present-day black & white system. There have been many attempts to build such a tube, but none has succeeded so far. Many experts believe that color television should be postponed until such a tube, or something equally good, has been developed. To adopt either the CBS or the RCA system in the meantime, they argue, would be to freeze color television at a low level...
Televiewers can have color quickly: the CBS system. But to get such color programs (when & if they are telecast), the owners of existing sets will have to spend something like $100 each for attachments. The pictures will be good, but probably not so good as those supplied by some radical system not yet invented. The public, which ultimately controls FCC, can eat its color-cake now, thus commit itself to eating it from now on. Or it can wait for a better, as well as a less expensive, cake that may be ready five or ten years from...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Jacques Abram...