:( For the technically minded : Colour is encoded as two colour difference signals called'Y'and'U'- which is encoded in the phase of the colour carrier signal-which is too high in frequency for a black and white TV to display.
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:: SteveBaker, from what I understand, NTSC color TV mainly uses YIQ, instead of YUV, with the " I " and " Q " in the color subcarrier, and the " Y " ( luminance ) is the only channel used by black and white TVs.
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I picture it working about as well as the first attempts to change black and white TV into color, where they colored the bottom third green and the top third blue, hoping that would be right at least part of the time . talk ) 14 : 24, 9 September 2012 ( UTC)
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Few rituals in the rural South were more familiar than watching Graham preach firebrand on a grainy black and white TV . Those who grew up with the cadence of his voice in the living room, watching a feeble, older relative soothed by what he offered, knew that this man was somebody to respect.
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A selling point to seeing these films theatrically was that they were being shown in color, at a time when most people had only black and white TVs ( and indeed the two first-season episodes that were expanded to feature length, while filmed in color, were only broadcast in black and white ).
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"' Jonathan Benair "'( July 4, 1950 June 28, 1998 ) was an American actor who did the voice of the Black and White TV in the animated film " The Brave Little Toaster " and Jim Bob in " The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue ".
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So, in theory, with the right kind of picture ( such as a test-card ), you could tell the difference between a true monochrome TV signal and a colour TV signal-even on a black and white TV . I guess turning down the colour saturation on a colour signal would produce a similar result.
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Present day 42 inch HDTV sets go for under $ 1000, and are substantially cheaper ( allowing for inflation ) than the 1941 12 inch GE TRK-12 black and white TV set at $ 395 ( marked down from $ 600 ) which would equal $ 5487 in 2006 [ http : / / www . westegg . com / inflation / infl . cgi.
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Sosnowski released his first documentary film, " JesieD { ycia ", in 2006 which was about a retired Polish filmmaker and musician Romuald Wojciech Szpotakowski, a famous production designer of films and television series after WWII, known from a war movies like " Jarzbina Czerwona " ( 1969 ) and very famous Polish black and white TV series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, StanisBaw SzymaDski.
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An excellent analysis of this effect is " Cohen, Jozef and Gordon, D . A . " The Prevost-Fechner-Benham Subjective Colors . " Psychological Bulletin, Volume 46, pages 97-136, 1949 . The 1960's black and white TV show " Thriller " hosted by Boris Karloff had an episode in which a woman wearing a dress with vertical black and white stripes was dancing, and when she spun around, the sequence of black and white movement caused all of us viewing it to see red streaks-on the black and white set.
