field-sequential color TV
- noun
- Archaic
- Early field-sequential color TV systems struggled with motion artifacts compared to later technologies.
Examples
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The demonstration of a field-sequential color TV amazed the audience with its vivid images.
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Researchers studied field-sequential color TV to understand the challenges in early color broadcasting.
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The field-sequential color TV was revolutionary in its time.
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Many early adopters loved their field-sequential color TVs.
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The demonstration of a field-sequential color TV amazed the audience with its vivid images.
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Researchers studied field-sequential color TV to understand the challenges in early color broadcasting.
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Early field-sequential color TV systems struggled with motion artifacts compared to later technologies.
Synonyms
An early color television that shows pictures by quickly changing red, green, and blue images
A TV method that sends each picture in red, then green, then blue
An old way of showing color television by showing red, green, and blue pictures quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositional: 'field-sequential' literally signals that color information is presented sequentially by fields, and combined with 'color TV' denotes a type of television. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words (field, sequential, color, TV) can therefore infer the basic meaning as a color television that displays color information in sequence, even if the technical specifics remain unfamiliar.
Etymology
Field-sequential color TV comes from how the picture was made: each field showed one color, red, green or blue, sequentially, so your eye 'blended' them into a full-color image. So, the name means an early type of TV that made color by showing the colors 'one after another'.