Re: Beware of fake 3-D

[P3D Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:37 AM 4/12/97 -0500, Bob Weir wrote:
>This kind of reminds me when color tv first came on the market (all you
>young 'uns out there missed this!).  You could go down to the corner
>five and dime (which is now the dollar general store) and buy a device
>which gave you instant color tv, even if you had a black & white tv! Even
>if the station wasn't transmitting in color!
>
>It was a piece of plastic that you stuck onto your tv screen. It was colored
>blue at the top and brown at the bottom. Worked well enough for landscape
>shots in westerns, I guess, but gave Miss Kitty a very strange appearance!

I remember when color TV first came out too, and the picture quality was
not much better than what you would get with one of those plastic filters.

-pd

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