9 Nov
2012
9 Nov
'12
5:07 p.m.
On 11/09/2012 04:40 PM, ben wrote:
Has the color on modern display devices matched the
color purity of the
early TV's yet?
If you're talking about 1950s RCA/NTSC sets, then the answer is
no--modern displays were much better. I vividly remember one of the
first families on the block to get color TV around 1957. It was an RCA
set--the color was greenish and the reds had a longer persistence than
the other phosphors, so red objects would "smear" badly on a dark
background.
Really, NTSC was terrible when it was new and didn't improve all that much.
--Chuck