This publication provides the criteria for television picture bulbs and implosion panels. The individual items specified herein are, for the most part, those which are of some commercial interest within the United States at this time. Other television picture bulbs are being produced, new bulbs undoubtedly will be produced after this is issued, and the amount of commercial interest in different bulbs has been known to fluctuate considerably. Therefore, no deductions should be drawn from the inclusion or exclusion of a particular bulb from this document.

This publication was initially intended as a revision of JEDEC Publication 10, Cathode-Ray Tube Bulb Criteria, dated November 19, 1956. However, the Committee on Cathode-Ray Tubes, JT-6, concluded that it would be advantageous to divide the CRT bulb criteria into two unique publications - this one and a subsequent publication restricted to the criteria of bulbs for industrial and military CRT, This publication is therefore a replacement of that part of Publication 10 dealing with television picture bulbs.