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| | This Week With My Coleco ADAM 9611.18 |
 | | Color television must transmit full RGB triplets for each screen pixel, but do it in such a way that (a) there is a luminance signal for bandw sets, and (b) the color signals aren't detected by a bandw set. |
 | | Rather than transmit (R,G,B) as three separate signals, a means was devised mathematically to encode the information in only one signal, called "chrominance", and the encoded signal was shoehorned into unused bandwidth in the existing bandw television signal in such a way that bandw sets couldn't detect it. |
 | | A luminance signal was generated by combining the (R,G,B) signals in proportions which reflect the sensitivity of the red, green, and blue photoreceptors of the human eye. |
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