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Uploaded by on Dec 13, 2008

Amazing technique of using patterns on a color TV to retrieve color information from a black and white film. See my post on this here:
http://bazargan.org/391/

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  • Thaks for comment Lyris1. I am slowly getting my head around this. :-)

  • Indeed would be interesting. But I think this was unusual, in that they were making a monochrome copy for overseas. Also, he says the monitor was black and white but I am sure it would have to be a colour monitor to have the chroma dots.

    By the way I am interested how you found this page in the first place! This was uploaded today I think.

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  • I hope this means several early 1970s episodes of Steptoe and Son will get the same treatment!!!!

  • Quite the reverse - a colour monitor would have filtered out the dots. The dots are actually a high-frequency signal laid over the picture information, a wobble from white to black. A colour TV decodes this signal, filters it out of the black and white image and uses the information to lay colour over the top. A black and white monitor doesn't "know" about the signal, so it doesn't get filtered out.

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  • @Kaveh1000 The dot or stripe pattern on a color CRT would obscure the chroma dot pattern. This process uses part of the signal that shows up as a picture defect when a color broadcast is viewed on a black and white TV

  • @emrabt It depends how you're watching the shows. It could just be standard Composite video artefacts.

  • @Kaveh1000 it wouldn't have to be a colour monitor to have the chroma dots. They weren't filtered out of the signal, so they'd appear on the black and white video monitor. You can occasionally see what I think is the same effect on consumer TVs when they're switching between video standards.

  • Or even "The Year of the Sex Olympics"!

  • Most are home tape recordings made by the creators - thus making chroma dots impossible for the majority.

  • i wached that on dad's army night.

  • Apparently the person who designed the colour-recovery technique got the same idea from observing exactly the same phenomenon as you did.

  • is this why, sometimes when watching a black and white bbc show, you can see tiny bits of red / green?

    Am i the only person to notice this?

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