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Test cards typically contain a set of patterns to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly (see SMPTE color bars).Most modern test cards include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of "dot landings" on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds.
Indian Head pattern with its elements labeled, describing the use of each element in aligning a black and white analog TV receiver. The Indian-head test pattern was created by RCA at their factory in Harrison, New Jersey .
Patti Page and her The Big Record show for CBS was the first television show broadcast in color for the entire 1957-1958 season. The live broadcast was staged in the now famous Ed Sullivan Theatre and production costs were greater than most movies were at the time not only because of all the stars featured on the hour-long extravaganza but the ...
An RCA Victor Color TV ad featuring milliner Lilly Daché in 1959. Color television (American English) or colour television (Commonwealth 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.
The RCA CT-100 was an early all-electronic consumer color television introduced in April 1954. The color picture tube measured 15 inches diagonally. The viewable picture was just 11½ inches wide. The CT-100 wasn't the world's first color TV, but it was the first to be mass produced, [1] with 4400 having been made. [2]
Pictures of this camera can be found on various websites [24] (it is not a pretty camera!). A production version of this camera, the EMI 2000, contained a similar complement of pick-up tubes, but was never built. Marconi, following their visit to RCA, also promptly set about the development of a new 4-tube camera, similar in concept to the RCA one.
OSDs display graphical information superimposed over the picture, which is done by synchronizing the reading from OSD video memory with the TV signal. Some of the first OSD-equipped televisions were introduced by RCA in the late 1970s, simply displaying the channel number and the time of day at the bottom of the screen. An OSD chip was added to ...
Apollo 7 slow-scan TV, transmitted by the RCA command module TV camera. NASA decided on initial specifications for TV on the Apollo command module (CM) in 1962. [2] [ Note 1] Both analog and digital transmission techniques were studied, but the early digital systems still used more bandwidth than an analog approach: 20 MHz for the digital system, compared to 500 kHz for the analog system. [2]