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I do remember that, when I first started watching color TV (December 1969, on a new RCA CTC-38), the color was usually quite reliable, but it was not unusual to see a color program with a lack of color or a hue phase error, usually only as a program started, or came back from a station break. It was, however, usually fixed in less than a minute, or, the famous "technical difficulties - do not adjust receiver" disclaimer would pop up when fixing it took longer than a minute.
As the 70s went on, this became less and less frequent, until the point that it completely stopped without me noticing it was gone.
Recent personal experiences are a Beta VCR (now completely broken :-( ) and a low power analog TV station, both of which had a steady phase error of about -30°, requiring that I adjust hue to get the oranges and indigoes back to the natural reds and blues - and back to the old settings when I wanted to watch anything else!.
Last edited by Robert Grant; 01-15-2011 at 05:10 PM.
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