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Originally Posted by magic452
Good lord where did you find that.
I remember watching those test patterns by the hour during the early days of TV. "Our programing has experienced some difficulty. Please stand by."
Magic
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Technically speaking, the Indian head with "please stand by" written on it, was not a test pattern, as the writing covered important details.
Here is a link to a test pattern page:
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/testcard/ It mainly covers European cards, as the Amercians were the first who to broadcast 24/7, here we used them much longer mostly during the night break.
Here are some from the bw era:
http://www.tv-testbild.com/html/bw.htm
and from the color era:
http://www.tv-testbild.com/html/color.htm
Speaking of stand-by cards, these were pretty cool:
(I love test cards
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