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Why are the primary colors used in TVs red, green, and blue?

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Why are the primary colors used in TVs red, green, and blue?
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because our eyes can only detect those three colors of light. Your computer screen works the same way. Manipulating the relative amounts of red, green, and blue light, plus light/dark levels, can create any color imaginable.
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Because they can be combined to give you the illusion of almost any color. Note the 'almost'. You cannot get a good, shiny metallic gold or a flourescent color.
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These are the primary colours (from which ALL other colours are derived).
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