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Originally Posted by winston_1
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Originally Posted by Oldmadham
In the leadup to the changeover in Australia, it was common practice to transmit Chroma, but not send colour bursts, so it would appear as B&W on a colour TV.
A few clever lads (maybe lasses as well), found they could produce colour with this signal using a "chroma lock" circuit which locked to the picture chroma.
I don't think we were spectacularly more inventive in Oz, so there is the distinct possibility that someone may have used the same trick in 1966 in the UK.
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Interesting about transmitting colour without the burst. Not heard of that before and I don’t think it was done in the UK, but I could be wrong. |
I can’t speak for GB but this was certainly ‘standard practice’ in Ireland , and I presume elsewhere, prior to commencement of ‘official’ colour service