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mpalmer
In the first 90 seconds, the narration refers to "the insane 19th century electronics that made color possible", but is referring to the 1900s, which were the 20th century.

The video contains no insight at all into "why" color TV was so difficult. It just lists and describes a few key advancements.

Also the "invention" of color TV is very different from the commercialization.

ck2
Before Youtube and Wikipedia there used to be a great website I liked to read about Philo Farnsworth but cannot remember the name of it for the life of me now
grishka
I grew quite an appreciation of color TV recently when I made a software-defined SECAM decoder. It's mind-boggling that they were able to do this with 60s technology, to be honest. But then what do I know, analog electronics is witchcraft to me :D

https://github.com/grishka/miscellaneous/blob/master/AVDecod...

edit: I watched the video. It only took them until the 13th minute of a 15-minute video to show something resembling a real video waveform, lol. That's, uh, not how you explain how TV works.

pavlov
Tintin readers will remember the pains suffered by viewers of early color TV experiments (“The Castafiore Emerald”, 1961).
thunderbong
Thanks for the Tintin reference! I immediately knew what you mentioned as that panel flashed in my mind.

I don't know what it is about the Tintin comics, but for many of the fans, the panels are so strongly memorable even after so many years, is quite amazing.