Early all-electronic consumer color television

Record 038 · Electronics · 1954

50%54.38.E

RCA CT-100 Color Television

RCA

“The first mass-market color TV that didn't make black-and-white sets obsolete.”

NTSC compatible color. $1,000 and unreliable at first; by the late 1960s color was the living-room default and remade advertising and sports.

Color TV later reached nearly every household in rich countries

  • NTSC compatible color
  • Shadow-mask CRT as consumer product

Compatible color.