BBC Test Card to make a comeback

Would have put this in the BBC RBS thread, but felt it deserved a thread of its own: Clicky or here, or here!

There's also a small bit on the bottom of the front page of the Daily Telegraph

Is that enough sources for you?

This is old news - the HD version of Testcard W (sometimes called erroneously Testcard X) has been going out on BBC HD for quite a while now... Was surprised it took the papers so long to find out...

(For those who care about such things - it isn't a perfect testcard, the levels are deliberately slightly wrong to avoid it being ripped off and sold commercially, as the proper one is now a copyright image for commercial reasons, though the sub-black bits are right which is useful)

Yeah, I thought so too! - Perhaps the newspapers have only just had Sky HD box installed (like I will have by the end of this month!)

A very useful article here as to how to use the BBC HD test card to line up your TV properly.

Much of it will also be relevant for those without HD, and who have found the test card on Freeview.

Though the Freeview test card is an MPEG still I believe (not JPEG) and very poor quality...

This is a more interesting item on the BBC Website. What I liked best was the fact that the guy they got to feature in it is quite passionate about the subject and willing to share his knowledge; it may seem boring to some but he makes it all sound very interesting, even to those who stumbled across it by accident.


It looks OK to me, noggin!

The HD testcard has also been doctored to make it less likely to burn in.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/3113573170_5df64e7e2d_o.jpg
"As a mater of interest, the cross on the Noughts and Crosses game is the centre of the picture!"

A nice touch!

That was fixed when TCJ and TCW were produced, on TCF it was always said to mark the *approximate* centre.

Some Freeview boxes (like my Humax) show it de-interlaced, that might be what you are experiencing.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jKb-PhsaeLc&fmt=22

No - it is the heavy DCT artefacts that annoy me...