-=> Quoting Tom Walker to Joe Nicholson <=-

 TW> It didn't really spin that fast. And in those days of 7 Inch
 TW> CRT's it was not really that large. Concidering the size of
 TW> the CAbinet those soemthat large chassis needed to have.
 TW> Of course for a modern 36 Inch direct view TV it would be a problem.

 3-foot CRT = 6-foot color scanner = 9 feet minimum for the TV.

 No, I doubt if CBS really pondered the issue of large-screen
 TV back in the 1940's when it fought RCA for the standard. 

 FWIW, many, if not most, TV shops in the 50's and 60's had a
 flying-spot scanner that scanned an image inserted into it
 and produced a weak signal for a TV.  Those shops often had
 an advertisement displayed on a set in the front window
 overnight until they discovered it "burned" into the CRT.

 Those instruments were great for getting a signal on a TV
 to adjust width, heighth and linearity when there wasn't
 an Indian head signal available from a station.

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