Why does the permanent timestamp in CCTV footage sometimes change color?

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• _danny@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one gonna mention anything about how that dude is lucky to be alive? Holy shit I thought this was going to be a different kind of video.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You think the dude in the truck is fine?

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• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For contrast so the text remains readable.

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like others have said, for contrast.

  Though, they’re not exactly “permanent.” Depending on the encoding, they’re potentially pretty easy to remove. (If it’s encoded to meta data. It’s just a playback thing. You can turn this on for VHS movies, too,)

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• skbo@lu.skbo.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s done to have a big contrast between the letter and its background, so you can read all the information all the time (except in edge cases, like the seconds in the video you show, the background is mostly 50-50 with black and white, so the text is kept in black, and can be a bit hard to read)

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