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He ini Radio News Service
12/19/45
RCA GIVES EDITORS RINGSIDE TV SEAT; CBS QUICKLY COUNTERS
In a surprise move the Radio Corporation of America assembled the radio editors of New York and Washington at the RCA Laboratories at Princeton, N.J., and shot the works on what the RCA had accomplished in television since the beginning of the war. The demonstration included both black-and-white and color pictures.
More later about the big rise the color part of it got out of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
For the RCA black and white display the visitors seated in a small theatre were able to see the same picture at the same time (a) on a pre-war set, about 6x8 inches, (b) on a console, about the same size, (c) on a table model x 6 inches and ( d) on an enlarged screen, almost the size of a newspaper page. Thus the observer could make an instant comparison between the pictures all of which were being transmitted by radio from WNBT, the National Broadcasting Company's station atop the Empire State Building in New York a distance of 47 miles.
The outstanding difference between the prewar and present pictures were their brightness. In fact, the prewar picture which we thought was so wonderful at the time looked like an old faded photographic print in comparison.
Then the RCA showed some color pictures broadcast from RCA Laboratories to the Princeton Inn, two and a half miles away. These, however, they damned with faint praise and that was what got the quick comeback from the Columbia Broadcasting System which has been majoring in color. Also it was said Columbia wasn’t any too happy about RCA springing a television show at this particular time as CBS had planned a little surprise along those lines themselves.
It was stated by Gen. David Sarnoff, of RCA, that no pro¬ gress had been made in color since before the war, that no real progress would be made until the mechanical methods now in use could be supplanted by an electronic system and finally that it would be at least five years before anything could be expected along this line. Paul Kesten, CBS Executive Vice-President, countered by say¬ ing that that was a safe estimate inasmuch as it was about three or four more years than Columbia thought it would take.
Although tiie pictures reproduced by the mecnanical color system show promise, RCA engineers pointed out that color television is still distinctly in the laboratory stage of development, with obvious shortcomings. There is much technical development, they said, that needs to be completed before a practical color television system will be ready for the home service to the public. They esti¬ mated that this will require about five years.
On the other hand, the demonstra tion of the RCA black-andwhite all-electronic television system, they said, clearly showed that it is now ready for the home. They presented sharp pictures on a screen as large as a newspaper page, with brilliancy, definition
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