[78-L] Dragnet Xmas Album (Was: Re: Rochester)

[David Lennick]

And in other corporate benevolence, that sonofabitch Sarnoff was trying to 
screw Farnsworth out of everything, or at least wait till his patents expired.

dl

On 5/26/2012 3:43 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>
>   From: J. E. Knox<rojoknox at metroeast.org>
>
>
>> Hmmm. My understanding of this is that David Sarnoff of RCA was
>> behind efforts to "declare color TV a war materiel product" -- in
>> order to stymie the sequential system and stick it to CBS. Not sure
>> where I read this though.
>
> RCA did have an interest in delaying the adoption of the
> CBS system so that they could develop their all-electronic
> system.  They certainly welcomed CBS' withdrawal from the
> market, but CBS found itself with a white elephant with
> their color system.  Consumers were still buying their first
> monochrome TV sets, and few manufacturers wanted to produce
> more expensive dual-format sets because there was little
> demand for them when there was almost nothing being broadcast
> in color.  And with the licensing freeze in effect, the only
> station in the world broadcasting the CBS system was the CBS
> station in New York, which was broadcasting a few hours a week
> with now viewers. On top of that, DuMont was agitating for an HD
> system (~800 lines) with the argument that B&W TV should be
> "perfected" before there was talk of color.  DuMont didn't
> have any color patents of their own, but they did have some
> HDTV patents.  Everybody was jockeying for a patent advantage.
>
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