The Origin of RGB Color Geometry

No matter what device you're watching this on, you're getting the same 16 million colors everyone got in the early 90s. What's up with that?

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TIME CODES

00:00 Intro
00:14 Color Pixels
00:46 Human Color Vision
01:10 RGB Color Space
02:05 Screens vs Vision
02:39 Bits and Bytes
03:26 Moderns Screens
03:46 Why 24-Bit Color?
05:22 Closing Thoughts
06:18 Featured Comment