color tv first came out in the us in 1953.
color tv first came out in the us in 1953.
when did color tv first come out in the us?
1953
in 1950, the fcc adopted a standard for color television that had been promoted by cbs, but the effort soon failed, primarily because the color broadcasts could not be received by existing black-and-white sets. as the result of a major research push, rca engineers developed a method of "compatible" color transmissions that, through the use of interlacing, simultaneously broadcast color and black-and-white images, which could be picked up by both color and existing black-and-white sets. in 1953, rca's all-electronic color tv technology was adopted as the standard for american television. at that time, sarnoff predicted annual color tv sales would reach 1.78 million in 1956, but the sets were expensive and difficult to adjust, and there was initially a lack of color programming, so sales lagged badly and the actual 1956 total would only be 120,000. rca's ownership of nbc proved to be a major benefit, as that network was instructed to promote its color programming offerings; even so, it was only in 1968 that color tv sales in the u.s. surpassed black-and-white.
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