[mythtv-users] TV color reproduction

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:04:30PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > Regular color TV (actually, regular color _anything_ with the current
> > technologies) must suck if you're tetrachromatic.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
> 
> I don't know about that.  TV couldn't reproduce the whole range of  
> colors a tetrachromat sees, but that doesn't mean it would look  
> wrong.  An extreme example of this is black-and-white TV -- it can't  
> reproduce any color but it doesn't look incorrect, just restricted.   
> Another example would be two-color printing, which produces images  
> that have a restricted color space but that our brains still interpret  
> as reasonably natural.

"Reasonably" being the operative word.  I think the original point was
that it would be harder for a tetrachromat to ignore the restricted
color gamut of NTSC, and the reproduction devices we watch it on, than
it is for us trichromats.

Stuffing it through a digitizing device like the tuners we use with
Myth -- to complete the process of bringing this back on topic :-) --
makes it even worse.

Cheers,
-- jra
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