RCA Color Comes To Japan: 1957
On August 29, 2012
- TV History
Color Comes To Japan: 1957
On Sunday, I had a story about Expo ’58 and the RCA color exhibit at the Brussels’ World’s Fair. In it, I also mentioned that RCA had sent a mobile color unit to Japan in 1957 to give them a first look at color television and here is the other part of that story. The Japanese were impressed and within a year of the visit, these 5 RCA TK41s arrived at Nippon Broadcasting.
There are two(?) TK41s in the NHK Museum in Tokyo. Toshiba, an RCA licensee, made an advanced version of the TK-41 in the mid 60s, described in the SMPTE Journal.
very interesting!
And now they make all of the HD cameras.
No, they just copied it.
Jock, I thought that THEY would’ve invented it!!!