Field-sequential Color Television (Noun)
Meaning
An early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The concept of field-sequential color television was pioneered in the 1940s by John Logie Baird.
- Field-sequential color television used a rotating filter wheel to change the color of the light emitted by the camera's CRT.
- Although field-sequential color television was developed in the early days of TV, it never gained widespread acceptance.
- The technique of field-sequential color television relied on the persistence of vision effect to create the illusion of a color image.
- Field-sequential color television was eventually superseded by other color TV systems, such as NTSC and PAL, which used a different approach to encode color information.