28 Apr
2012
28 Apr
'12
11 p.m.
On 4/27/2012 1:17 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
There was a preoduct sold over here that consisted of
a multi-colour
filter. It was divided into 3 horizontal stripes. The top stripe was
blue, the middle stripe a weak flesh colour and the bottom stripe was green.
The idea was that if you put it over your TV screen you got colour
pictures....
Well, it was OK for most outdoor sceens (blue sky, people in the middle,
grass at the bottom), but less good for anything else. But I am told
people bought them.
(No I am not confusing this with the rotary disk for fliters used in some
sequential colour systemss).
-tony
In my approximately four years of repairing TVs for the public here in
the USA, I saw one of those tricolor screen overlays just once. I think
I managed to get out of the customer's house without laughing out loud.
It was a lot of years ago, but I seem to recall it took me a couple of
minutes to realize the intent of the thing, and to understand that for
certain scenes (outdoors as Tony points out) it actually sort of worked.
--
Later,
Charlie Carothers