File 001 · Category Openers
Record 038 · Electronics · 1954
54.38.ERCA CT-100 Color Television
RCA
“The first mass-market color TV that didn't make black-and-white sets obsolete.”
Compatible color.
NTSC compatible color. $1,000 and unreliable at first; by the late 1960s color was the living-room default and remade advertising and sports.
Filed notes
- NTSC compatible color
- Shadow-mask CRT as consumer product
Units. Color TV later reached nearly every household in rich countries
SIC
3651
Household Audio and Video Equipment
NAICS
334310
Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing
