"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message

In article ,

Arny Krueger wrote:
Really and truely the only difference is solid state technology and
other technological changes that it enabled.

The other one is the original VRT - the Ampex 1000. Bays of valves. To
make a colour version using valves would have filled the studio it was
meant to serve...

Yeah, talk to old-timers about the MTBF of the first generation color TV
cameras.