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Old 03-10-2005, 04:16 AM
domfjbrown domfjbrown is offline
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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
On another note, there is a classic paper from the NTSC color development days on why a tint control is needed even when there is no variation in phase (to compensate for the particular red/green color mixing characteristics of the viewer's color vision). The variation of red/green ratio to make flesh tones is actually considerably larger than the smallest noticeable difference, even among "normal" viewers that would not be considered to have a color deficiency.
AHA! So this could explain everything in my case - I'm partially colour blind between red, brown and green! The nystagmus I suffer from is the reason I'm so susceptible to flicker, but maybe this colour problem is why I don't get on with NTSC

I thought it was just me who saw the colour banding problem on plasmas (my eyes do weird things all the time!). Thank GOD it's not!

BTW - when in my old house share, we had Sky Digital (digital satellite). ON things like Futurama, colour banding was all over the shop - truly awful. Combine that with 100hz processing AND plasma, and you can have some of the worst colour pictures ever devised!
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