RGB to become RGBCMY

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 16, 2004 @04:47AM from the double-your-spectrum-double-the-fun dept.

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."

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Re:MPC: possibly the next standard? by Elecore · 2004-08-16 04:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

I wouldn't. It's taken so long to get HDTV "standard" that it will take just as long to get this new standard in. If everybody just upgraded to HDTV, they won't want to upgrade to this. These guys were about 5 years too late it seems :(
Sometimes by agraupe · 2004-08-16 04:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

Sometimes the most mundane improvements can be the best. All the people who swear by HDTV will be SOL, because they'll have hi-res, but improperly colored, television/movies.