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Three Sequentials. The FCC hearings, which began more than a year ago, took place in the splendid isolation of the large Department of Commerce auditorium in Washington. The busy lawyers and technical experts often outnumbered the spectators-usually a few leg-weary tourists. The testimony of engineers, executives and experts fills 40 volumes and 11,178 pages covering everything from RCA's patent position (which is well-nigh impregnable) to the precise emphasis Frank Stanton placed on "love" when he said he loved compatibility...
...FCC found that the RCA system was unsatisfactory both as to "color fidelity" and "texture." It described RCA color itself as "soft," reported the system to be "exceedingly complex," and noted that a "time error of 1/11,000,000 of a second results in color contamination." As for the CTI system, it was "unduly complex"; it had a "serious line-crawl problem, its picture texture was not satisfactory," and there was "great doubt" of CTI's compatibility...
...FCC held that CBS's picture (see chart) "is most satisfactory from the point of view of texture, color fidelity and contrast" and that "receivers and station equipment are simple to handle." Its most serious limitations: 1) lack of compatibility, and 2) its present limited picture size (12½ inches...
...drawback of picture size might well have a happy ending, thought the FCC. It is caused by the one "mechanical" feature of the CBS apparatus-the spinning, motor-driven color wheel which must be more than twice the size of the TV screen. The FCC saw a way out through the adoption of a tri-color picture tube which would do away with the wheel, all limitations on picture size, and make CBS as fully electronic as any other system. RCA had demonstrated such a tube late in the hearings, but the FCC reported that it was deficient in registration...
...First Report, the FCC had given TV manufacturers a month to indicate that they were willing to start making new sets internally adapted so that they could receive CBS colorcasts in black & white. Most of the manufacturers protested that the time was too short for such a radical changeover. But the FCC wouldn't wait. In October, it handed down a final decision in favor of the CBS system...