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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical (spectrum.ieee.org)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It still is.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yep, DLP still uses a mechanical color wheel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_light_processing?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Much to the chagrin of those of us who can see and are bothered by the colour flicker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Had a color wheel in a DLP TV explode on me. Fairly easy to replace but it was a pain to clean out all the glass.