Re: QUESTION: VINTAGE COLOR TVs

In article <dp25tq$92g$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
UFO Joe <UFO-Joe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a few Vintage TVs from 70s & early 80s.
> I notice that compared to my newer sets the color on older
> ones gets a kinda funky purple / green thing going on.

Due to the sensitivities of the phosphors in a CRT, the red gun is the
hardest driven so tends to lose output first. The result is a green hue.
Indeed some early Trinitron sets had an external green gain control to
make adjustment easy.

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