Color T. V.

@badradger said
good one rusty

@badradger said
first computer ZX80 a gift
ZX81 bought
Spectrum x3
Commodor & a Plus
3Acer mainfraims
3 Acer laptops
1HP (crap)

@badradger said
first computer ZX80 a gift
ZX81 bought
Spectrum x3
Commodor & a Plus
3Acer mainfraims
3 Acer laptops
1HP (crap)

@Gambrel
I remember that era well. Color sets at first were based on a spinning color wheel, like slices of pizza but different color filters, so that spinning in front of a black and white camera, then the TV set had this huge covered wheel sticking out of the side of the set and that wheel had the exact set of color filters as the camera.
So now both wheels had to spin in exact snyc so when the black and white screen made some image, the color filter would be there shooting out say, red.
and so forth and I must admit, to an 8 yo looking at it, the colors were amazingly real and full. The tiny detail though was the fact the color wheel would lose sync with the transmitted signal and the whole image would go to hell in a hand basket.
That tech didn't last long🙂

It was an awkward looking beast also, a big box, I think the TV screen was a whopping 12 inches or so and so the color wheel had to be twice that of the screen so the whole bit of the wheel would be in front of the screen, looked weird with that 3 foot disk hanging out one side..

@sonhouse said
@Gambrel
I remember that era well. sets at first were based on a spinning Icolor wheel, like slices of pizza but different color filters, so that spinning in front of a black and white camera, then the TV set had this huge covered wheel sticking out of the side of the set and that wheel had the exact set of color filters as the camera.
So now both wheels had to spin in ex ...[text shortened]... the wheel would be in front of the screen, looked weird with that 3 foot disk hanging out one side..