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Early Color Television

15 Inch Sets and Monitors (1953-54)

NTSC field test sets

Some of these sets were either sold to the public, or have characteristics that made it clear that the manufacturer had developed them to the point where they could be sold. Others were only prototypes.

Who Sold the First NTSC Color Set to the Public?

Receivers

Andrea	Admiral C1617A	Arvin   Courtesy of Pete Deksnis
CBS-Columbia RX-89 prototype	CBS-Columbia RX-90 prototype	Douglas 15" prototype (LA Times Jan 1, 1954. Courtesy of Steve Dichter)
DuMont prototype	1953 Emerson 15" prototype. From November 1953 issue of Radio & TV News  Courtesy of John Folsom	Emerson C-501 prototype  Courtesy of John Folsom
1954 Emerson prototype	Fada - Mockup or Prototype	General Electric 15CL100
1953 G.E. prototype with metal cone CRT Courtesy of Chuck Azzalina	Hoffman 15M1300U Colorcaster prototype Courtesy of John Folsom	Motorola 16CK1
Pacific Mercury prototype	Philco prototype Courtesy of John Folsom	Philco 1955 prototype with Apple CRT
Philharmonic (AMC)	Pye experimental 405 line NTSC set (Britain)	Raytheon
RCA Model 5 prototype	RCA CT-100	Sears-Silvertone 4160 prototype Courtesy of John Folsom
Scott prototype	Sentinel 806-CM	Sparton (photo of rear and engineering manual) prototype Courtesy of John Folsom
Sparton 16A211	Stromberg Carlson K-1 Courtesy of Ed Reitan	Sylvania 451  Courtesy of John Folsom
Westinghouse H840CK15 Westinghouse 15" prototype	Zenith 43M20" Courtesy of Dave Johnson	Unknown
Zenith 21" rectangular prototype (1954)

Monitors

Dage 650 Monitor	DuMont 15 inch Monitor Courtesy of John Folsom Specification Sheet	General Electric 4TM-15 Monitor
RCA TM-10 Monitor	Polarad M-200 15" monitor  Courtesy of George Lemaster
Wickes color monitor ad from IRE Proceedings, June 1954. Wickes ran ads for color encoder, vectorscope, bar generator, stairstep generator, etc. about every month in the IRE in 1954. KOAM-TV Pittsburg/Joplin MO about 1963. You'll see a Wickes color monitor near the back. Courtesy of George Lemaster

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