Bruce Esquibel:

The original premise of VIR is that the TV would be aligned
with a luma/chroma/phase/peak signal sent 60x sec from
the station on a specific scan line.


VIR was not something done in the home, with test patterns
and a camera or sensor mounted to the screen. That is called
calibration.


The key phrase here is: "aligned with the station". Of course,
there could be the option, in this glorious digital age, of user
override of certain adjustments, such as the Backlight on
LCD/OLED TVs, to compensate for specific in-room viewing
conditions, day vs night, etc.


But at the very least, the color, hue, and sharpness would
be locked in automatically.


And it would still be up to the user to locate and disable non-
standard eye-candy such as "auto skin tone". "noise reduction",
or "motion sensitive lighting". Basically, all just effects that add
nothing(useful anyway!) to the image.