Color television or colour television is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.
An RCA Victor Color TV ad featuring milliner Lilly Daché in 1959.
Hovannes Adamian c. 1900s
This live image of actress Paddy Naismith was used to demonstrate Telechrome, John Logie Baird's first all-electronic color television system, which used two projection CRTs. The two-color image would be similar to the basic Telechrome system.
RCA CT-100 at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention playing Superman. The RCA CT-100 was the first mass-produced color TV set.
Digital television is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. In the 2000s it was represented
Color television
…not standardize on the PAL or SECAM formats until the 1960s. Broadcasters began to upgrade from analog color television technology to higher resolution digital television c. 2006; the transition year varies by country. While the changeover is complete in many countries, analog television still remains in use in some…
Comparison of image quality between ISDB-T (1080i broadcast, top) and NTSC (480i transmission, bottom)