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Originally Posted by Chad Hauris
Many of the old sets too had a color temperature control labeled "chromatone", "color fidelity" "chromix" etc.
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Caution - that control on older sets adjusted the lowlights (it was a DC balance adjustment). So it was not truly a color temperature adjustment but more of a mistracking adjustment (sepia or blue-tone). Putting the tracking toward sepia a bit could help maintain fleshtones, but if the manufacturers had gone away from the very blue 9300 Kelvin color temperature, that would have helped a lot more. I have set the B&G drives on my old Magnavox to eyeball-match daylight, and I'd bet the color is better than it ever was out of the factory. It also has a sepia switch, which I turned on once for laughs, but never again.
The more expensive sets these days (HD or HD ready) typically have a color-temperature adjustment of some kind, and in some cases it evens maintains the gray-scale tracking properly when you change color temp. (However, sets also tend to have a variety of presets labeled "film", "sports", etc., and who knows what combinations of contol settings each corresponds to.)