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On 2/1/25 2:47 PM, Lars Poulsen wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:08:17 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>>     It was common for US stations to start/end/both with the national
>>>>     anthem or something similar. A test pic of an eagle or something
>>>>     'patriotic' on the screen. The practice kinda faded in the latter 60s
>>>>     once we had been told to be self-loathing.
> 
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>> The test patterns were dropped as color TV became more popular. Color TV
>>> drove my uncle crazy. You had to be a little artistic to adjust the RGB
>>> balance so everyone didn't look like a corpse and he was a techie, not an
>>> artist.
>>
> On 2025-02-01, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> I remember a "color" (which was really 'saturation') knob, and a "tint"
>> knob, but don't remember any sets with external knobs to adjust R, G
>> and B colors (other than maybe in the "no user servicable parts inside"
>> area...).
>>
>> But yes, getting color and tint just right so things looked half normal
>> instead of corpse or nauseated was a real challenge.
> 
> The old National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) was sometimes
> referred to by the alternative expansion "Never Twice the Same Color".
> The "tint" part of the encoding was a phase adjustment on the color
> subcarrier. The transmitters tended to have some phase drift.


   Hey, it was all analog ... slightest change in
   temperature, or a beer can next to the works ...


> The French version of color TV encoding was called SECAM, often
> translated as "Supreme Effort Contre les AMericains". The Germans came
> up with a simpler solution: They reversed the phase every other line,
> whereby it became self-correcting. PAL - Phase Alternating Line.

   Clever !

> Everyone else picked up the German system, except for the Soviet allies,
> who adopted the French system, so that the West German broadcasts would
> be displayed in Black and White only.

   Doubt there were TOO many color TVs in the
   old eastern bloc. In any case, making the
   opponent's stuff look worse is good propaganda.