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The Westinghouse H840CK15 was the second consumer all-electronic color television set offered for sale in the United States on February 28, 1954. [1] It used the 15GP22 cathode ray tube. The set was discontinued about six months after its introduction [ 2 ] because of larger and less expensive 19 and 21-inch color sets becoming available in ...
An RCA Victor Color TV ad featuring milliner Lilly Daché in 1959. Color television (American English) or colour television (British English) is a television transmission technology that includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.
A magnetostrictive torsion wire delay line Schematic of circuit connections to the acoustic delay line used in NBS mercury memory (top); block diagram of the mercury memory system (bottom) FUJIC's ultrasonic mercury delay line memory (capacity: 255 words = 8,415 bits) Ultrasonic delay line from a PAL color TV (delay time 64 μs), showing path ...
USS Jimmy Carter in the magnetic silencing facility at Naval Base Kitsap for her first deperming treatment RMS Queen Mary arriving in New York Harbor, 20 June 1945, with thousands of U.S. soldiers – note the prominent degaussing coil running around the hull Control panel of the MES-device ("Magnetischer Eigenschutz" German: magnetic self-protection) in a German submarine Close-wrap deperming ...
Color CRT displays in TV sets and computer monitors often have a built-in degaussing (demagnetizing) coil mounted around the perimeter of the CRT face. Upon power-up of the CRT display, the degaussing circuit produces a brief, alternating current through the coil which fades to zero over a few seconds, producing a decaying alternating magnetic ...
Hoffman Television was a manufacturer of television sets in the 1950s and 1960s.. Hoffman Television was part of the first coast-to-coast color broadcast in the United States when NBC telecasted the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon ...
The TK-40 was used for a color telecast of the opera Carmen on October 31, 1953, apparently on a closed-circuit system (monochrome images were apparently broadcast with the color burst removed). The first commercial telecast was of the Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor on November 22, but the color burst may have again been removed.
Later digital standards use the YCbCr color space. These color spaces are all broadly related, and work based on the principle of adding a color component named chrominance, to a black and white image named luma. In YIQ the Y component represents the luma information, and is the only component used by black-and-white television receivers.