2017-12-15

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Technology Connections

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RCA's attempt at creating a new color television standard that would be compatible with existing black and white TVs initially faced technical challenges. However, it was an obviously great idea from a backward compatibility standpoint, and the National Television Systems Committee latched onto this idea and helped to propel RCA's idea to the real world. This is that story.

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Research for this video revealed many great resources. I've linked many down below for those interested.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/

This website has a tremendous amount of information, pictures, and resources available on the history of color TV. They're definitely worth checking out, and apparently you can visit the museum if you're in their area. From this website, this story about the early color systems is great:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/color_tv_cooper.html

This link also includes fantastic information on the CBS color wheel system:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/cbs_color_system.html

Information on NTSC encoding was supplemented from this overview on color details:

http://nemesis.lonestar.org/reference/internet/web/color/ntsc_primer.html

Basics for many encoding techniques were gathered from everyone's favorite reliable source of knowledge. Some good reads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorburst

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