RE: Colour television

["Daniel T. Fahey" <DanFahey@DanSources.com>]

Sounds like a similar arguument with Video Recorders and HDTV..

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
[mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu]On Behalf Of Ed Evanhoe
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:28 AM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
Subject: Re: Colour television


Martin,

IIRC, there were two different, non-compatable, color TV systems under
development so the government put a hold on color TV set production until
the industry could decide which to use.  Had nothing to do with the Korean
War.

Ed

At 11:49 PM 2/11/2002 +1030, you wrote:
>http://www.oldradio.com/current/bc_tv.htm
>
> > 43) When were the first regular Color TV transmissions?
>
> > While CBS pondered the problems, the Korean War shut down all color tv
>production.
>
>I don't understand why this is.
>Can anyone help me with why this engineering problem would be stopped by
>this war?
>
>Martin

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