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 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.
[...] 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.
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