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NEW SERIES VOL. 3, No. 41
TELEVISION DIGEST-9
and can’t be counted on to ease pressures this year. National Video now claims to have solved its major problems, is scheduled to go back into limited production of 23 -in. rectangular tubes for Motorola Oct. 21.
There are only 3 other U.S. picture-tube makers for OEM market. These are GE, Philco (Lansdale) & Westinghouse. None has made any discernible move to enter color production. They can be counted out of market for 2 years, at least. Admiral’s exploration of color tube production (Vol. 3:38 p8) couldn’t possibly bear any fruit until shortage is over, even if there is any serious intent behind its investigation.
RCA says its surveys indicate there will be demand for more than 1. 5 million color tubes next year, but hasn’t stated how many it expects to produce. It’s good bet, however, that RCA will not increase its color tube capacity substantially— in view of fact that with 3 new producers eventually entering field, RCA has no desire to create over -capacity in 1965. RCA, incidentally, has notified its customers that it will supply only 800,000 color yokes next year. With general belief that more than million color sets will be produced, set makers thus are looking for other yoke suppliers. F. W.
Sickles Div. of General Instrument is now making color yokes; Advance Ross designed yoke for Motorola 23 -in. color set, presumably will also make yokes for 21 -in. color sets.
Added to color tube problems is coming changeover to 25 -in. rectangular 90® tube— probably beginning some time next year— which will necessitate shutting down some production capacity for considerable period.
Industry today would be extremely receptive to more color tubes from any source— including Japan. Although Japan has standardized on 16-in. rectangular 90° color tube, there’s little prospect of any substantial quantity becoming available for at least year or 2. Nevertheless, industry would love to get hands on good quantities of these, if prices were right. Toshiba says it has samples of its 16-in.
7QO color tube in U. S. now and is "willing to sell to OEM. ’’ But it hasn’t indicated how many it can make or how soon.
There aren’t many dark horses in race. Sony has repudiated reports that it will begin producing Chromatron tube next spring, insists it doesn’t know yet whether it will make the Paramount -developed color tube at all. Although Sony’s current license precludes U.S. marketing. Paramount TV chief Paul Raibourn says his company would have no objection to licensing Sony to ship tubes or sets into U. S.
Nobody knows exactly how* much worrying to do about next year’s tube supply. It depends not only on RCA’s capacity, but how fast RCA’s 3 competitors swing into production and how high their production rate is. It’s little solace for this year, but National Video Pres. Asher Cole observes, philosophically: "Never in the history of this industry has there been a bottleneck which hasn’t been broken
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For present, however, it’s obvious that there won’t be slightest easing of logjam this year.
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First concrete information on this year’s color tube output came last week from Glass Tempering Assn. , whose members make nearly all external and PPG-type bonded picture tube implosion plates. Assn. Pres. C. BurtKallick said members had supplied 407,316 tempered glass panels for color TV during first 6 months of this year— including both bonded & external types. All color tubes use either one or the other.
TV-RADIO PRODUCTION: EIA statistics for week ended Oct. 4 (40th week of 1963) excluding 11 -in.
I and smaller:
j Sept. 28-Oct. 4 Preceding wk. 1962 wk. ’63 cumulative ’62 cumulative
Black & white TV. . . 163,090 180,777 150,513 5,346,682 5,014,602
Total radio 454,086 458,309 441,844 13,363,526 14,300,249
Auto radio 204, 129 210,609 162, 195 5,715,029 5, 153, 180
(Note: Figures for Sept. 7-13 week, not previously reported: black-& -white TV, 157, 314; total Ij radio, 433,400; auto radio, 193,739. TV 11-in. & smaller excluded. )
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