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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstration just about eliminated rival CBS as a competitor, even though the FCC approved CBS's whirling disk system 2% years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950 et seq.) before a Government order shelved production of color sets. CBS President Frank Stanton has already indicated that to go ahead with CBS's incompatible system would be "tilting at windmills...
...testify before the House Commerce Committee was CBS President Frank Stanton, a very discouraged man. The CBS "field sequential system" had been approved by the FCC in 1950, he recalled, but TV manufacturers seemed to want none of it, because they were waiting for RCA's long-heralded "compatible" system (whose color broadcasts could be seen in black & white on present sets). CBS, said Stanton, would not push its system: "I think we would be tilting at windmills...
...color competitors were enthusiastic but vague. The TV industry's National Television System Committee reported that it was hard at work defining the standards needed for a compatible system. RCA's Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom said that, once FCC approves the standards, RCA "will immediately put into effect plans to mass-produce color TV receivers and tri-color tubes." Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc., which says it can produce a tube to receive black & white as well as color from either the CBS or the RCA system, complained that the defense order had forced a shutdown of its production...
...breath, both CBS and RCA were making their answers. RCA's David Sarnoff said that his company was doing "everything we know how to advance color TV for the home . . . I don't know to whom Senator Johnson refers . . ." Added CBS, whose noncompatible* system was approved by FCC 2½ years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950): the fault lies with the Government, which restricted production on color TV equipment...
...week's end came word from the National Television System Committee, representing technical groups and most major manufacturers, who banded together to devise a new system that they hoped would make FCC revise its favorable decision on the CBS method. Said N.T.S.C. spokesmen: the committee has designed a compatible system which needs only field tests before it is presented to FCC. The field tests began this week...