Early color required a touch most customers didn't have.

[Findm-Keepm]

So much of a set's setup is subjective - I know several people that have colorblindness - not the usual kind, but a form where their "rods and cones" ain't where they should be. They like the yellow or green picture that most of us would want to adjust away. With the wide variance of how we all perceive color, I imagine that we'd all set them up to a different picture.

I was the kid on service calls that held the mirror - dad would adjust grayscale from the back of the set, so I didn't see how it was done at a young age - I got the skills much later. Dad set them up kinda bluish - I was told I set them up more purplish. The customers would always praise the way dad left the set, and he instructed many a kid on how to set up the color and tint/hue/chromix/fleshtone controls. It seems many of the older customers were technophobes and wanted their kid to be the one making the adjustments.

Convergence and purity setup made so much more difference than gray scale, at least to me. You always had the customer's set with the bad degaussing nickel, with the pinkish patches in the sky. Fix the degaussing, give the nickel a blast of Freez-Mist, and turn the set back on. Customers were amazed at the difference. We had labels made that went on the TV power cord that read something like "if the set is moved to another location and the colors aren't right, give us a call" - Dad would get a service call outta that to reset the purity.

HDTV? Yeah, mine stayed on the default/reset settings for a while, until I read the manual. 13 pages of instruction on how to setup a custom picture and save the profile. Still more about the Movie/Dynamic/Action/Sport features that had to be understood. I wish there was a way to set the mode by channel - two or three channels have color saturation beyond 100%, and I find I have to back off on the color on those channels. I use the dynamic setting for most viewing, and the movie mode for Blurays/DVDs. Probably all wrong, but I like it, so it works for me!

Cheers,