Why do weather people still use green screens?

Vicky's answer is great. Cost/Benefit is one of the main reasons. However, there's other more technical aspects that dictate why greenscreens are still in use. First, the weather person is not working in the dark. read more

People still want the weather person standing in front of a map and this is a well-established and cost effective way to do it. The technology behind creating and lighting the backdrop has not changed substantially in decades. It’s also cheap to setup and maintain. read more

If TV stations used an onscreen screen to output the weather map, the final output would be a representation of a screen with lower resolution than what you can achieve with a greenscreen. When using a greenscreen, you are outputting the weather map in lieu of all the pixels that have a green frequency. read more

The camera you use for shooting green screen footage for visual effects and virtual backgrounds does make a difference. Because chromakeying is a digital process, the way your camera creates the image directly affects your ability to pull a clean key. read more