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I can't think of any cities that do have six and seven. But there just wasn't enough room to put in this wide band system that Peter had developed. So he wanted to go into the microwaves or into the UHF for the color system that he developed, and that meant going way up in the spectrum. And would have destroyed, I guess, is the popular way to put it, would have destroyed the investment of the public in receivers in the low band.

Right.

But of course he came up with his system at a time when there were very few --

Right.

But the longer they waited, it made it more difficult for his system to come to fruition.

But nobody really had any way of knowing that that was true. Right?

Well, we knew it was true.

Oh, you knew it was true.

And Sarnoff knew it was true. And Folsom knew it was true. If they could push enough black and white sets out there --