Abstract :
Among the technical sessions for the opening day, one of the best attended was that in which color television was considered. “Color Television Today” was the subject of the first conference paper by D. E. Foster, Hazeltine Research, Inc., of California. After explaining how the channel arrangement is like that used for monochrome operation except for the added chrominance subcarrier, the author told how the signal was encoded and then described the receiver with its decoder and the Chromatron picture tube. The prediction was made that color television receivers will be on the market in the near future with 19-inch tubes, but that relatively soon this picture-tube size will be increased by 2 or 3 inches.
