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It’s the 54th anniversary of the Commericial Color TV<\/a> — the RCA CT-100.<\/p>\n

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The RCA set had a 15-inch screen and sold for $1,000, which has the buying power of $7,850 today. That’s more than enough to take your pick of 50-to-60-inch plasma screens with up to 16 times the screen area of the 1954 model.<\/p>\n

[…] It was the RCA standard — with its backward compatibility to existing black-and-white broadcasts — that came to define the market. Few families wanted to clutter their living rooms with one box for color and another for black-and-white.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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  It’s the 54th anniversary of the Commericial Color TV — the RCA CT-100.   The RCA set had a 15-inch screen and sold for $1,000, which has the buying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11993,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/17\/in_stereo_stereo.html","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":0},"title":"In Stereo-Stereo!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Dec-07 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Morning after the night before on the new receiver.\u00a0 Some thoughts ... 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