--- cliff benham <cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last summer, I saw NTSC pictures on a restored, > properly adjusted > CT-100, the very first RCA color set > and the only "TV Set" ever built with an unequal > bandwidth I-Q decoder > and a 15GP22 CRT, the only CRT ever to employ the > original NTSC phosphors. > Next to it was a properly adjusted 12 inch (Sony > Trinitron CRT) > Tektronix 650 color monitor. The source material was > transferred film > and video on DVD. > > The RCA had much darker, richer greens than the TEK, > and produced a > subjectively more pleasing color picture than the > TEK. > The RCA pictures had a very different look than the > TEK and were more > preferable to me. The TEK produced yellowish greens. > If all the decoding and phosphor coordinates are so > close, why did they > look so different? > Well, dear top-poster, I already said why: > >The greens except the original NTSC (and Adobe RGB) > >green are very close. The original NTSC is wildly > >different from all the others (except Adobe RBG), > and > >is wildly inferior. The NTSC green is green, the > >other are a rather sickly yellow green. The greens are close except for the original NTSC one and it's close cousin, Adobe RGB. NOTE: you can have that NTSC green today, if you wish, by buying a Panasonic RP-LCD set. I own one ... it's green is a monochromatic 546 nm ... exactly on the outer edge of the CIE curve. Doug McDonald ===== Doug McDonald my last name at scs dot uiuc dot edu, not here at Yahoo, please __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.