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Surely a screen cap of the card would be fair use, eh? Otherwise the 6 billion non-Brits of the world will have only a general idea of what it looks like (the text conjured up an image completely different from what the Beeb article shows). Also, no telling how long the exernal Beeb article will remain available...Stan 03:51, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Is this really a more common test image than the black-and-whiteNative American image that was ubiquitous inAmerican broadcasting?RickK 05:11, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
FWIW, you can see the Native American test pattern athttp://www.rmbwoc.com/vidpage/indian.gifRickK 20:12, 11 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I keep seeing statements like "The 'X' on the noughts-and-crosses board is an indicator for aligning the centre of the screen". How does this work when this X is clearly not in the center of the picture?Phil 10:05, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
Is the Carole Hersee link necessary? The pageCarole Hersee is just a redirect toTest Card F.Oddtoddnm 03:42, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
Nostalgic John Peel fans might just remember a band of this name:[1]Totnesmartin23:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have noticed that on July 2nd (This Monday) will be Test Card F's 40th Birthday. Does anyone know if the BBC or other organizations are doing anything to mark this?
Riatsila08:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm just saying. This article certainly has the potential.--h i ss p a c er e s e a r c h21:02, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Right, now the big Merge between Bubbles the Clown and Test Card F are done, I am going to work hard to get it up to GA status.
Riatsila18:50, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Pity that some of the Bubbles refs have been lost in the merge ......
Zir23:17, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Think that I've now located all lost refs - tho' they ought to be revised to "cite" sometime.
Zir21:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Long time reader, first time editor--I was trying to find information on the book[2]''Test Card F: Television, Mythinformation and Social Control'' and there is no mention of it here. It'd be nice to at least have a disambiguation and a stub.
Ceefax music isn't the same music as what we heard in trade test transmissions as that music dates back to 1997/8 to date and the Test card F music from the 60s - 80's era is long gone, though forgive me if this is incorrect—Precedingunsigned comment added byCooky-cy (talk •contribs)17:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It would be nice to have a caption for the first image of the card, explaining where it was obtained. Is it a picture taken off a TV set, maybe? Right now it has no caption at all, and because the other picture (the "original photographic slide" photo) is virtually identical, it's potentially confusing to readers - for example, me. -DavidWBrooks (talk)17:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've once heard that the girl was left handed and the image was flopped so that that she would appear right handed. Not sure but I think it was on QI. Anyone else heard this? Anyone find a source?
It's a commonly repeated story, but the website which made the claim later retracted it. I can't add it to the article as it'sWP:OR but I have discovered that the photowas flipped butnot because she was left-handed (she is right-handed). Bizarre though it may seem, the tale started because George Hersee said he had flipped it "to make her look right-handed", but it turns out that this was because she reallyis right-handed but (for reasons too complicated to go into) the original photo made her look left-handed.Samatarou (talk)23:23, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There are currently 22 examples of the card, mostly parodies, appearing in TV/film/whatever. That's getting to the point that we should think of condensing it - perhaps something like this:
The problem, of course, is deciding which are notable (as a USA-ian, I'm not in a position to do that) and then keeping an eye on the list because it will undoubtedly start to grow again.
Any reaction to this idea? -DavidWBrooks (talk)21:34, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with@Fram:'s decision that- as they are essentially updated versions of Test Card F- Test Cards J, W and X would be better covered by the same parent article. However, it appears that no attempt to retain or merge the content previously atTest Card J andTest Card W was made; it was simply overwritten by the redirect and hence lost.
No explanation for this was given, so I've merged the content here into subsections. Some of it has been removed as it makes overly specific claims about dates without providing any citation or indicating if the information is still correct (e.g. the "last time" something was seen).
Ubcule (talk)18:27, 4 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
It was a lot earlier than the introduction ofETP-1 in 1979. As I recall, ITV was using colour bars immediately prior to ETP-1 being introduced81.158.209.230 (talk)02:15, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Some of the on-line references to obtaining this from a Freeview set-top box seem to be a little out of date, but since I've done this just now it counts as blatantWP:OR so is not suitable for inclusion in the page, but should anyone want to try:
To leave the screen and return to "normal" operation use the channel/program "up" or "down" buttons; the other colour buttons also seem to provide actions that are related to the indicated texts for them but the "DevTools" one could be hard to escape from.
This sequence worked for me on a somewhat mature "Bush iDPVR801B".SlySven (talk)01:22, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Does not work as of July 6 2020 upon pressing green it opens “Development tools menu (MHEG)”Slender (talk)06:49, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The BBC no longer uses the parody of the test card on the 404 page, instead opting now for the Clangers.SonnikuSan (talk)12:39, 1 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I like having "popular culture" sections in Wikipedia articles because they show how the article subject resonates in society, providing insight into the topic's importance. However, the section on this article has grown out of control, mostly because of all the parodies. It has become a classic pit of useless fancruft, just the sort of mess that makes some editors delete all pop-culture sections on sight.
I plan to remove virtually all of them, leaving only a couple of quick examples to reflect how often, and for how long, it has been parodied. This would be similar to the way sections about cover versions are often handled in song articles when there have been too many cover versions to list them all.
Any objections or thoughts? -DavidWBrooks (talk)16:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
don't quite know how to use the wikipedia talk thing but it was confirmed on the 100th BBC anniversary edition of antiques roadshow that the image was indeed flipped to change to right handed89.242.206.192 (talk)19:38, 1 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
