CBS Chromacoder

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Originally Posted by whsh93a

I still remember tuning into a CBS program in the late 50's (I think it was a movie) and discovering color on my family's B/W Motorola set. It was there, but pretty dim. As a kid, I always wondered if I was seeing things until I read one day years later that they had conducted experiments to fool the brain into seeing colors on standard B/W sets. It only worked for a percentage of people. I guess I was one of them??

Maybe I'm not remembering correctly (old memories can change and fool the rememberer). Anyone know anything about this?
DH

Yes I remember something like that...At about the same time I was living in OH and we got our stations from Cleveland...Anyway IIRC one the the stations ran some tests for color via B/W sets..It was in the mid to late 1950s.

And if my memory serves me...They were experimenting with a "flicker rate" for each scan line...And for certain "flicker rates" the eye would "perceive color"...

Feel free to correct me...It was a long time ago and I was not very old at the time...