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This was actually a "thing" back in the 1950s. Apparently the results were awful: http://www.earlytelevision.org/color_filter.html http://www.earlytelevision.o

This was actually a "thing" back in the 1950s. Apparently the results were awful: http://www.earlytelevision.org/color_filter.html http://www.earlytelevision.org/color_filter.html

lovelyviking 6y ago
Nice ads :) They claim it gives less eyes strain, is it true?
- airstrike 6y ago
  And if so, should we write a custom .css for HN with a similar effect?
elcomet 6y ago
Funny ads ! And my ad blocker didn't block them :)
tyingq 6y ago
They appear to just be green on the bottom, yellow in the middle, and blue on the top. Such that it might be plausible for outdoor scenery, but useless otherwise.
- jjeaff 6y ago
  Yes, that's how they were. I believe it worked for the occasional western or other outdoor filming.
- sukilot 6y ago
  This is also how automatic digital photo enhancement worked for a while.
jjeaff 6y ago
Thanks for posting that. My grandmother told me about having that type of "color" tv before and I had never been able to find it. I had decided it must have just been some little cereal box kit with stick on color filters or something.
Jyaif 6y ago
The Vectrex video game console had special overlays that matched the games layout, for example: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,154425.msg1620365.html#msg1620365 http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,154425.msg16...