Whatever happened to color TV? In 1951, to conserve scarce materials, the Government banned the manufacture of color TV sets. Last week Washington lifted the ban, and the TV industry was, theoretically, free to spurt ahead with color. Actually, it seemed to be just ambling along.
Up to testify before the House Commerce Committee was CBS President Frank Stanton, a very discouraged man. The CBS "field sequential system" had been approved by the FCC in 1950, he recalled, but TV manufacturers seemed to want none of it, because they were waiting for RCA's long-heralded "compatible" system (whose color broadcasts could be seen...
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