14 Facts About Color television

Color television 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 invention of color television standards was an important part of the history and technology of television.

Color television broadcasting in Europe did not standardize on the PAL or SECAM formats until the 1960s.

Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full-color image.

In 1940 he publicly demonstrated a color television combining a traditional black-and-white display with a rotating colored disk.

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At the time, black-and-white television broadcasting was still in its infancy in the U S, and the FCC started to look at ways of using this newly available bandwidth for color broadcasts.

Since no existing Color television would be able to tune in these stations, they were free to pick an incompatible system and allow the older VHF channels to die off over time.

In July 1938 the shadow mask color television was patented by Werner Flechsig in Germany, and was demonstrated at the International radio exhibition Berlin in 1939.

Cuba in 1958 became the second country in the world to introduce color television broadcasting, with Havana's Channel 12 using standards established by the NTSC Committee of United States Federal Communications Commission in 1940, and American technology patented by the American electronics company RCA, or Radio Corporation of America.

Color television's speech was recorded in color, and a copy of this videotape was given to the Library of Congress for posterity.

The number of color television sets sold in the US did not exceed black-and-white sales until 1972, which was the first year that more than fifty percent of television households in the US had a color set.

Israeli television even erased the color signals using a device called the mehikon.

The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service started television broadcasting in 1963 as a cooperation between the SLBS and commercial interests; coverage was extended to all districts in 1978 when the service was upgraded to color.

Digital Color television broadcasting standards, such as ATSC, DVB-T, DVB-T2, and ISDB, have superseded these analog transmission standards in many countries.