Color television (NTSC)
Televisión en color (NTSC) y tubo de máscara de sombra
- Date
- 1953 · confidence high
- Place
- RCA, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- RCA (David Sarnoff) and the NTSC committee; Peter Goldmark's (CBS) rival system
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A colour television system compatible with black-and-white receivers, using a tricolour tube. It turned television into the dominant mass medium of the second half of the 20th century.
What it led to
- Global television culture, mass advertising and televised politics
- The PAL and SECAM standards and the Cold War's technological fragmentation
- Satellite and cable television
Built on
- Cathode ray tube (Braun tube)1897
- Trichromatic field-sequential colour TV system1940
- electronic black-and-white television
Made possible
- Videotape recorder (Ampex) and VHS1956-1976
- satellite television
- home video games