Preliminary Survey of Colour Preferences in Television Pictures

Abstract

This paper describes an investigation carried out in order to determine some of the colour-rendering characteristics that a viewer of colour television would consider to be satisfactory. It is concluded that the colours of a reproduced scene need to be less saturated than the colours of the original scene being televised. This is in line with findings on colour film reproductions. There is evidence to show that it may also be desirable to make the reproduced colours rather more blue than those of the original scene. Although it is important that the home viewer should not have to deal with too many controls, it is suggested that a knob to adjust the red-green ratio of a colour picture may be desirable.