Colour recovery Colour recovery Colour recovery (or colour restoration) is a process which can restore lost colour, specifically to television programmes which were originally transmitted from colour video tape, but for which only black & white copies remain archived. Not to be confused with colourisation, colour recovery is a newer process and is fundamentally different from colourisation for several reasons. Firstly, colour recovery can only be performed if the originally transmitted colour signal can be reconstructed or recovered from some source, whereas this is not usually the case for traditional colourisation. Secondly, colourisation can be used to colourise films and programmes that
Winter of 2009–10 in Europe Ministers denied there was a shortage of grit and salt, insisting there were "very substantial" supplies for Scotland's roads. In its monthly summary "Met Éireann", Ireland's weather service, said December was the coldest month for 28 years for most of the country and the coldest of any month since February 1986 at several stations. Wintry conditions returned to Europe, as much of the northern hemisphere was gripped by intensely cold weather. 13 people died in Poland, bringing the total number of cold-related deaths in Poland to 122. In Switzerland, ten skiers were reported dead or missing in avalanches. The worst