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CED in the History of Media Technology

 

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RCA Color Converted TV

1955: RCA Black & White Television Converted to Color

The expense of the initial color TV's prompted some enterprising companies to implement a mechanical conversion of B&W TV to color. Shown here is the COL-R-TEL 630TCS Color Converter attached to an RCA television. A motorized spinning tricolor disc behind the round shield acted in unison with a synchronizing assembly on the back of the TV. During the CED era a similar concept was used on the Vectrex Arcade System to transform B&W into color. In that system, a head-mounted 3-D Imager with a spinning tricolor wheel was used to watch the screen in 3D and color.

 

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