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Old 08-05-2009, 11:43 PM
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Thanks for the link. It was very enlightening. Apparently, the process was also used employing a special film in the late 1950's called the "Nagler Process." Makes me wonder if a true white LED could be manipulated to produce the illusion of different colors. Imagine a matrix of LEDs creating images or messages that would be visible only to a certain percentage of viewers. Everyone else would only see white. I'll bet some people could be convinced that they were being hailed by God.

I fully appreciate the last bit in the article pointing out that thousands of viewers telephoned a station asking, "What happened? Did I really see color on my black-and-white receiver? Or am I having hallucinations?"

That's exactly how I remember feeling.

DH

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Originally Posted by Steve McVoy View Post
The experiment with flicker to produce color was done in the 60s. It was limited to a few commercials in a few markets:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/butterfield.html
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