Hailed as a prodigy, color TV is still a retarded child. In the five years since its ballyhooed debut in 1953, only 325,000 sets have been sold, v. 10 million black-and-white sets in the comparable ...

September 28th marks the 60th anniversary of color television hitting the mass market in America, and it's fun to look back to a time when a color screen was a really, really big deal. RCA created ...

TV-set makers have pursued their elusive goal of a color-TV set in every living room with a great hue and cry, but the public at large has not joined in. Now the manufacturers have decided that the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first-to-market advantage is built right into the name: the National Broadcasting Company. NBC was created a century ago amid ...

Is it true that people who lived in an era when black-and-white movies and television were the norm often dreamed in black ...

Seventy-five years ago, RCA demo-ed an “all-electronic” color television system at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

We have often wondered if people dreamed in black and white before the advent of photography. While color pictures eventually became the norm, black and white TV was common for many years. After all, ...