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Old 06-13-2017, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Electronic M View Post
A hilariously cheap gimmick.

What I'd be interested in, is to see is how this performed. http://earlytelevision.org/pdf/pop_elect_10-68.pdf
http://earlytelevision.org/butterfield.html
If the effect is real, with today's cheap electronics it probably would not be hard to demodulate a color signal to RGB, re-matrix to YMC gate which one is shown each frame and re-modulate it as perceptual color 'monochrome' video. If I manage to un-bury myself in repairs, that project is high up on my "I want to build this" list......If it does work and I can build the circuit I'm thinking of, I know which set to test it on...One night about 6 years ago I dreamed my 19" monochrome Zenith Space Command was producing a color picture, unmodified (it'd be neat to see that).
This was actually used by Pepsi or Coke to produce some color sensation on monochrome sets in a TV commercial, if I remember correctly. The problem with doing this with a TV is that you don't get a choice of flash rates (30 Hz or submultiples thereof in the US), so it's very sub-optimum. Plus, some choices of frequency would be banned today because of the possibility of triggering epileptic seizures in some people.
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