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Originally Posted by Electronic M
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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Yes, absolutely true. And just about the time the networks got their acts together on this problem, analog cable came in, with the chance for individual burst and chroma errors on each of dozens of channels, plus the multiplicative degradations of cascaded analog amplifiers before the signal got to your house.
When color TV market penetration was still ramping up, people who knew I worked on it would ask me "Do you think they'll ever perfect color TV?" I'd reply "I hope not- that's my job!"
