HackerHow Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings
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Adding analog color had to preserve a useful brightness picture for monochrome receivers while supplying color to new sets. The one-color counterexample illustrates how bandwidth and installed equipment jointly constrained the encoding.
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The reason for the fussing about had to do with compatibility.Picking just one color would produce a very unnatural image on the black and white set.