Word: tri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 and color fidelity. CBS, Philco...
Baltimore 78, Tri-Cities...
Boston 94, Tri-Cities...
...regarded as ... in accordance with the well-established American principles of free competition and fair play. If this kind of thing goes on in America, the Phillies certainly missed a bet in the last World Series. They should have asked the Yanks for Joe DiMaggio . . Nothing, not even our tri-color tube can remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that off his chest, Folsom went right ahead with his and Pilot Radio Corp.'s suit to stop...
Having made its decision in favor of Columbia Broadcasting System's color television (TIME, Oct. 23), the Federal Communications Commission rubbed salt in the wounds of defeated Radio Corp. of America. It asked RCA to turn over its tri-color tube to its arch-rival so that Ctfb could experiment with...