Color Me Solid-State

Color tv sets are among the most expensive pieces of entertainment technology that most of us will ever buy. Their sophistication parallels their price tags and often the buyer has no idea of what he’s getting for his money. Our own ignorance about color tv technics is compounded by the star trek jargon favored by American and Japanese set manufacturers and the riffs about negative matrix and solid state that pour out of the store salesmen’s mouths.