Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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RCA Laboratories provides another great achievement in television —the "mirror-backed" Kinescope, or picture tube. Mew "searchlight brilliance" for home television f Now, large screen tele\ision pictures are twice as bright —yes, twice as bright as ever before! You can "count every eyelash" in the close-ups. You'll almost want to shake hands with the people on your tele\ ision screen —so great is the illusion that they are actually in your living room. This new sharpness and brilliance is achieved through the new RCA "mirror- backed" Kinescope, or picture tube, per- fected at RCA Laboratories. It has a metallic film —eight-millionths of an inch thick. This metallic film acts as a reflector, allowing electrons to pass through to the screen but preventing light rays from becoming lost through the i)ack of the tube. Just as the reflector of a searchlight concentrates its beam—so does this metallic film reflector double the bril- liance and clarity of detail in home tele- \ ision receivers. Similar progress-making research at HCA Laboratories is being applied con- stantly to all RCA Victor products —assur- ing you that anything you buy bearing the RCA monogram is one of the finest instru- ments of its kind science has achieved. Radio Corporation of America, RCA Biiihl- in^. Radio City, New York 20. Listen to The RCA Victor Sliow, Si/ii(/«i/.v, 4:30 P.M., East- ern Time, over the NBC Nettcork. RCA \ictor home television re- eeivers will be a\ ailable in two t) pes. One model will have a direct-\ iew- Ing screen about 6 bv 8 inches. The otlier type will be similar to the set shown abo\'e —with a screen about 15 hv 20 inches. Both instnnnents are being readied for the public with all possible speed and should be a\'ailable this Near. RADIO CORPORATION of AMERICA