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Would you like to see Testcard W anytime you want...?

Well if you've got Freeview you can (January 2008)

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PT
Put The Telly On
Shows update times and region status page..? Is that right?
JB
JasonB
nwtv2003 posted:
Credit to 'ljones' on the PP...

1) Tune to BBCi on 105
2) When BBCi background appears press Yellow, within 30 seconds
3) Tune to another channel
4) Go back to 105
5) When BBCi background appears press Green, within 30 seconds
6) The word secret should appear on the top right and then the Status page should appear.
7) Enter 3, 3, 5, 8, 2, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue
8 ) Wait between 30 seconds and a couple of minutes and TCW should appear

this does work on IDTV's aswell, give it a shot, it only works on newer STB's apparently.


Works over here. Though after pressing green i got some grid where i could "force region" and change it so my DVD recorder will think its from somewhere else in England but after doing that properly Test Card W came up looking very clear.
RD
RDJ
But what difference does it make if you force the Region?

Anything on BBCi thats Regional you have to choose what Region you're in anyway. So how does it change anything?
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Works on my Daewoo setpal box - although on my Bush widescreen TV I don't get the sidebars on the test card - even with the TV and STB in 16:9 mode.

Will try it on the other TVs with Freeview later.

This is a great find, though! just stick it on your TV, stick on a disc of library music or old test card music and you can be in two different eras at once!
:-(
A former member
It will also work in DigiTV software for PCs.

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