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Show It's Really Simple Interested in Color Television? Here's Unexpurgated Details By Frederick C. Othmaa WASHINGTON All thia hocus-pocus about television, future of, before th federal communication c o m m 1 Ion waa getting me down. Commiasioner were snarling at radio moguls, and vice versa, about the chance of picture In color. Everybody seemed to be sore at everybody els. Nin different fellow had nin dif-, dif-, ferent systems of bringing tech- nicolor tb th living room. Each-, on said his was better than th next. While a tenth) said none of their sets was worth taking home. And so much yammering yammer-ing In scientific double-talk you never did hear. So I grabbed off th chief engineer engi-neer of one of th biggest television tele-vision outfits in th world, sneaked him Into a sactum where ther was no TV aet, or microphone, either, and told him h waa among friend. Namely, me. Thl was his. chance to tell m honestly, without fear of senator or favor fa-vor of th FCC, what was cooking. Here' the Dope He waa a good Jo. He was delighted. And with no further preamble, here the first understandable un-derstandable explanation of th biggest television fight ' I've heard so far: Th public (h aaid) la demanding de-manding tinted television. As soon aa th FCC make up It mind ss to which system is best (and this shouldn't be long a such thing go) th bov will Th receivers themselve should be considerably smaller than the oversized boxes on th market today. But what' worrying th radio mogul ar these very ete, of which 2.000,-000 2.000,-000 now are In us nd at ieaat 1,000,000 more are In the work. The gentlemen In the buainess ar insisting that the . government govern-ment approve no color aystem, unless it'll continue to work on present set in black and. whit. Frowa on Converter Th boy don't put much stock in converters to make current set into color jobs. Such times will work, but they doubt If anybody'!! want to buy another box to attach to hi present one. Some of th manu-' manu-' facturer had .their finger burned badly when they tried to sell converters to make ' old- , faahioned radios into FM receiver. re-ceiver. Nobody much bought m. Thl thinking would seem to put th kibosh on the color deal which uses a whirling disc to make the tint In the tube. It works fine, but no ordinary tle-vialon tle-vialon set will pick up th Image it's got to hav, except In quadruplicate. And that' that. Now th boy can talk all they want in their formal hearing about dot-dash-interlace systems and pulse-modulation loada. I won't hav to listen to 'em and try to flgur out what they're talking about - Copyright X' nited Feature Syndicate get busy on turning out the machinery. ma-chinery. Color transmitter ar redy now. .Some of th other equipment la little more than a dream In rr engineer's eye, while the receiving sets have got to b built from th ground up. Inside of two year Olsen and Johnson should be availabl in full color, along with their collapsible col-lapsible ducks, on TV screens across th land. Th system most prefered by th radio Industry will not us on gigantic and costly picture tube, as of today. It will hav Instead three little ones about th size of pint milk bottle. Tube to Be Inexpensive On of these will take care of the color red, one will handle green and one blue.. When th beams from these three tube are focused on a ground glass screen, they'll make moving pictures pic-tures In full color. Th undersized tube themselve them-selve are not much more complicated com-plicated to mak than th sealed beam headlight now In us on automobile. These auto lamp now cell for less than 12 each; th specialist figure that when the small tube get Into mass production they couldn't cost much more. |
