Early Color Challenges
On July 4, 2013
- TV History
Early Color Challenges
How do you develop first quality color broadcasts without the ability to properly monitor and calibrate your results? The answer for RCA was with patience and lots of testing. That’s what the Colonial Theater was for. This photo was taken there around 1953 and shows one (one of four) of the prototype models of the brand new RCA TK40 (notice no vents on the VF) shooting a flower arrangement because there were no color test charts yet. There weren’t even precision color monitors yet! Developing color broadcast systems at RCA presented a multitude of challenges.
thinks the flowers deserved their own afternoon show.
It has always been a challenge. And the more you’re aware of the problems, the “worse” it seems to you.