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Why is black and white TV not a color TV if black and white are color?
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∙ 8y ago
White is all of the colors combined. That's why you can see 7 different colors with a glass prism. Black is no color, because black material absorbs almost all the light that hits it. Black and white TV isn't color TV, because you don't see the blue, green, and red colors separately. Blue, green, and red are the very three colors that combine to make all the other colors that you see with your eyes.
Black and white have intensity but no chroma or hue.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoFor an emerging technology, it was simpler and easier to detect light and shade than to try and use colour.
The technology just was not available to try and attempt to deal with colour pictures.
It was not a deliberate act to invent black and white, it was the only way they could do it.
In the same way you could ask, why Henry Ford didn't make the Mustang before the Model 'T'.
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∙ 14y agoIt is called monochrome because it is one color and not an array of colors. hope that answered you question.
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∙ 13y agoTVs were black and white because they had not invented color yet! ;)
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∙ 12y agoIt was originally developed in black and white because that is technologically simpler than a color television.
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Was Batman on TV in color or black and white?
It was broadcast in Color although if you still had a black and white TV in 1966 to 1968, it was of course in black and white.
If black is a color white is a color then why is a black and white television not known as a color television?
Black and white are colors, but technically both can be the absence of color, or the total combination of colors. B&W television used shades of gray (although that might also qualify as a color). The term "color TV" means a "full spectrum of colors" rather than simply grays.
Black is color white is also a color but black and white is not a color TV. Why?
Neither black or white are actually colours. They aren't primary colours and you can't mix other colours to make them. So it's just a black and white TV. It becomes a colour TV when it, um, has colours.
What was color television first used?
black and white
How could you see Oz in color on a Black and White TV in the 1960's?
You couldn't! The first bit of the film was done when there was only black and white tv and the second when color came out.
How many tv shows went from black and white to color?
Lots
Color tv has three colors--red blue green but how many which colors a black white tv has?
Black is not a color it is the absents of light so different shades of the white would give you grays.
What year did the television go from black and white to color?
Black and white television were broadcast in this manner due to that fact that television sets could not display color versions. By the mid 1970s most television sets were color models and therefore black and white shows were discontinued.
What year did color TV sales overcome black and white TV sales?
1972
Why was the black and white T.V made?
because TV could not be made in color that is why
What causes a color TV to go black and white?
the Ariel or the plug not in properly
What is description of Monochrome Television?
Black And White! The word means "one color".
