Television, whoaed, geed and hawed from season to season by the Federal Communications Commission, broke out of its experimental hobbles last week. With a giddap from FCC, it took a few tentative commercial steps. It looked pretty spavined.
To live up to FCC specifications for commercial broadcasting, manufacturers are now altering all the sets now in use. These receivers were built to reproduce an image of 441 lines. Authorized transmitters will broadcast 525 lines and FM sound, so that televisionaries tuning in on NBC broadcasts will probably get murky pictures and fuzzy sound if their sets are not changed over. Nobody will...
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