[BC] CBS Color...lived on

[PeterH5322]

>Otherwise, the composite output of a color camera already has band-limited 
>the I & Q signals in the chroma subcarrier to essentially what is going to 
>pass through the tx, so color performance won't be greatly different 
>before/after transmission.

It was RCA's strategic decision to place so-called "colorplexers" on the 
output of each and every camera, perhaps to increase the total system 
cost, or, more likely, to allow unified video switching [ * ] .

The cameras themselves were component-level RGB.

[ * ] Incidentally, the switching/cutting and fading and dissolving 
issues with NTSC color are remarkably the same as with film color. Fading 
to black, in both systems, is actually a dissolve to a black signal 
(NTSC, which implicitly incorporates a color "burst") or to an unexposed, 
but developed color negative "slug" (which implicitly incorporates an 
orange "mask").