re: Why most uniforms look blue? But some purple…

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But even like the shin guards are blue, some players jackets are blue but other players oven mitts purple, some cleats purple. I cannot imagine it is a TV thing

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It’s a lighting/TV thing

we have all seen these jerseys in person and we know they aren’t blue.

It’s a combination of lighting, cameras, and TV.

If you see the uniforms in person, in daylight, they’ll all look the same shade of purple.

At night or indoors, the CRI (color rendering index) of the stadium/arena lighting affects how the uniforms look in person. Different types of lighting produce different spectrums, which can sometimes cause the uniforms to start looking “off.”

Then you get into the cameras/broadcast, where the production causes a little more color shift. I think ESPN often over-saturates their broadcasts a bit to make things look more vivid (although I can’t confirm this with certainty) which would lead to color inaccuracies.

Then there’s your TV, which probably isn’t well-calibrated. Worse, the default settings for many TV’s are also oversaturated (so they look better in a showroom) which leads to more color inaccuracy.

It’s super noticeable with purple because purple is one of the harder colors to reproduce. Your TV doesn’t actually produce purple light. It produces red and blue light, which tricks your brain into thinking it sees purple because of the way your cone cells work. It’s really more complicated than that because many shades of purple, even when viewed naturally, don’t actually exist on the spectrum.

Anyhow, I’ve noticed that the affect on TV seems to be magnified for “shinier” fabrics, which have become more common in recent years with Dri-Fit and similar materials. I suspect that the reflected light from these shiner fabrics is tricking the cameras to some extent, and that affect then gets magnified by the rest of the color inaccuracies along the line.

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The dress is black.

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You dumb. Cause it was either Blue or Gold

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What does that even mean?

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You must be old. If you don't know

Lighting and TV processing quality is my guess.

When in the bright natural sunlight, Purple pops big time.

Artificial lighting, processed differently. Full artificial spectrum is unlike natural sunlight spectrum.

TV processing quality also makes a big difference.

So do you see the difference today with the natural light? Do you think everyone changed hats since last night?