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Old 10-01-2019, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by trinescope View Post
That 1958 Eisenhower video tape looks really good even today, and probably did so at the time it was broadcast. Also, the tint controls on these old sets we play around with here seem to stay put once set, which leads me to believe the "never twice the same color" problem was more on the transmitter side than in the receiver. I can only try to think of what these sets looked like back when they were new with the broadcasts of the time.
I've read that tint (among other things) varied from station to station and if the viewer was not aware that they would need to adjust color controls of the set between stations, one channel could look great and the next not so much.
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