RGB to become RGBCMY

elgatozorbas writes "The basic color elements of television have not changed much since 1954; a half-century after RCA introduced the first color set, the RGB (red, green and blue) system used then still prevails. But Israeli company Genoa Color Technologies has broken the RGB barrier by adding one to three primary colors such as yellow, cyan and magenta, thus expanding - from 55 to 95 percent - the coverage of the visible color gamut. The promised result of this multi-primary color (MPC) technology is a television picture that, with its truer, more vibrant color and brighter image, looks more like cinema than video. Also covered in IEEE Spectrum."

Comments

Yellow

[Espectr0]

I wonder why green was chosen instead of yellow all along, since green can be formed combining blue and yellow.

Re:Nice, but still shortsighted

[GigsVT]

Bah, that's bunk, I can clearly see on my screen that everything outside the triangle is the same color!

CIE is foisting this myth of "bigger gamuts" upon the public so people will use their proprietary and patented L*a*b system!!!

Re:New standard still necessary

[Zareste]

Thanks for backing me up with your complete lack of justification for the mindless post he gave.

I think I'm going to start meta moderating. It seems like something's wrong when an informative post get no mod points, and a post sent by someone to whine about his own lack of cognition is modded up by a couple of friends. I should know, I've also sent one or two posts that were absolutely useless but, thanks to not-so-competent mods, got five points.

Maybe this metamodding thing really has some necessity.