Color Television Brightness-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Abstract

In the beginning the world of color television was dark, and the customer was fearful, but the salesman flipped the switch and said, "Let there be light." And there was light -well almost light -and it was colored and the customer saw it was good...so he bought it. When he got it home, however, the customer realized his color set was almost dark compared to his monochrome set, so he didn't buy as many color sets as the salesman had. The salesman pondered the question and said to the engineer, "Why can't there be more light so I can sell more color television sets?" And the engineer looked puzzled and said, "I don't know how to do it, but since the color television system -including cathode ray tube, broadcast standards, circuitry and what have you are all impossible anyway -I might as well try to give you more light." So he did.