Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult
4M views · Mar 31, 2026 · Science & Technology
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@primalspace · 6 months ago · pinned
Feel free to watch the end part like 8 times to undersand it 😅- Thanks to Mr Odoo for making this vid possible: <a href="https://www.odoo.com/r/uOA">https://www.odoo.com/r/uOA</a>
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@Felix-j3d4b · 5 months ago
Pretty insane how complicated everyday technology is, and we just take it for granted.
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@karkinissan · 6 months ago
The math for sending the RGB signal blew my freaking mind. So genius!
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@glitchd4557 · 6 months ago
the french are the most france people ever
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@CosmoVerse33 · 3 months ago
The engineering behind this is absolutely mind-boggling. Squeezing three times the data of a color signal into the exact same 6 MHz bandwidth of a black-and-white signal—without interfering with existing TVs—is pure genius. The way they separated Luma, I, and Q signals phase-shifted by 90 degrees shows how brilliant 20th-century engineers were.
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@carloscobian3989 · 5 months ago
How is it possible that Guillermo González Camarena is not mentioned even once
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@ARBLOGSyt · 6 months ago
The "Made By Humans" text in the video is really reasonable
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@ericweimer948 · 5 months ago
RCA spent so much time, effort, and resources to develop this technology that ended up being the standard for the next 50+ years, all the while making sure to NOT render all black and white TVs from immediately being obsolete. Would huge companies of today do the same thing? Great video!
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@MrRadar · 5 months ago (edited)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyjCmIbRRvs&t=21">0:21</a> That's not quite true. That's the moment color TV broadcasting was inaugurated <b>in Washington DC</b> (and the first live appearance of a sitting US President on color television a bit later in that broadcast), however color transmissions had been ongoing in New York City and other markets since late 1953.
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@angeldlr9205 · 5 months ago
Guillermo González Camarena (Mexico): In 1940, at age 17, he patented the "trichromatic sequential color system," a simple, effective technology for color broadcasting. His system was used for early color broadcasts in Mexico in 1963. His technology was even used by NASA in 1979 for the Voyager 1 mission to send back color images of Jupiter.
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@gbn.117 · 5 months ago
A poor Mexican engineer: Hold my tequila 🥴
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@chri3r · 6 months ago
I still wonder sometimes how the world would look if the blue LED had never been invented.<br>Super good video as always! 😊
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