26 Apr
2012
26 Apr
'12
5:19 a.m.
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On April 1, 1962, Swedish Television had an item on the news where a
well-known technical expert explained that the broadcasting company had
just installed new equipment which would allow viewers to see the
programmes in colour, if they cut up a ladies' nylon stocking and fixed
it over the screen. I believe quite a few people actually tried it.
It became one of the best known April Fools jokes in Sweden, at least
with those who were around at the time.
/Jonas
I'll say. The kind that can buy into a
phrase like "Cryogenic
processing renders the Reference-II absolutely grainless."
I read that as "brainless" at first, and I still think that's
what they meant.
There were some classics sold (?) over here.
Like 'carpet earthing clips', of which yuu must always use an odd
number
so that more charge runs away than comes back.
Or electret foils. I have no problem with the existance of electret
foil,
or indeed of its use in audio (microphones). Butsticking an odd
number of
trianges cut from it on your record turntable, pointing in the
direction
of rotation would, IMHO, make no improvement tot the sound.
Or cuttint the corner off your amplifier front panel (appearmetn and
odd
number of corners sounds better).
And we all rememebr the green pen :-)
-tony 
27 Apr
27 Apr
11:17 a.m.
On April 1, 1962, Swedish Television had an item on
the news where a
well-known technical expert explained that the broadcasting company had
just installed new equipment which would allow viewers to see the
programmes in colour, if they cut up a ladies' nylon stocking and fixed
it over the screen. I believe quite a few people actually tried it.
It became one of the best known April Fools jokes in Sweden, at least
with those who were around at the time.
I see...
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
28 Apr
28 Apr
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
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