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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."
While it sure does sound good, I high doubt that anyone will want to throw away the billions invested in good old RGB tvs and monitors. After all, they're "good enough."
My friends are going to be viridian with envy!
I want to see what it looks like.
Lasers Controlled Games!
oh, wait a minute....
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
Yeah but these guys broke the RGB barrier!!!
A truly revolutionary idea would be to include and project IR and UV in addition to RGB/CMY.
Why didn't I think of that? This is huge! It would mean that us cave-dwelling worms will get tans, skin cancer, and cataracts just like everyone else- just by sitting in front of our monitor. Also, we could use the IR radiation to heat our TV dinners so we wouldn't have to keep going back to the oven or microwave to check if its done yet.
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16 million colors should be enough for anyone.
Oh great, project UV from our TV sets. That would be good.
;)
"So where did you get that sunburn?"
"Too much TV I guess."
Or better yet...
"Oh neat, Jesse James is about to weld something again..." *ZAP!* "...oh fuck, my eyes!"
Happy people make bad consumers.
Isn't that sort of thing bad for the electronics? Not to mention uncomfortable.
I may be 25, but I turn into a 12 year old when someone says something like "stimulating your rods" in a scientific explaination.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
still nothing to watch.
I think the problem is Crayola. My parents only gave me the 8 box set of crayons. My wife's parents gave her the 128 box set of crayons.
Engineering and the Ultimate
Alternative coloUr models habe been around for a while
Yeah, and Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier what, 50 years ago? And where is my supersonic flying car?? Dammit!
Heh. My girlfriend and I are both web designers. This makes it MUCH easier to communicate about color, especially since we each have different definitions for the word "grey".
"Hand me my grey shirt."
"You mean the greyish-blue one or the greenish-grey one?"
*sigh* "70809E, Honey!"
"Ok, thanks!"
-Hentai [in vita non pacem est]
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the human eye only has receptors for R, G, and B
Mantis shrimp have at least eleven different receptors, and lots of birds and fish have four or five. So I guess it's the logical direction to go once the human market for RGB monitors reaches saturation.