The Test Pattern List, v2.0.4
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Copyright © 1997-2000, Tom Walsh (avs@netport.com) and Steve Mindykowski (rugrats1@ix.netcom.com). All rights reserved. May be copied for personal, nonprofit uses only; for other uses, please contact the authors.
The most recent version of this document is available at http://www.oocities.org/rugratsonline/testpatt/. This copy is the version v2.0.4 of September 24, 2000.
This list documents all websites dedicated to displaying test patterns and provides links to them.
v2.0.0 - 25 Nov 1997 - Added Swedish test pattern site
v2.0.1 - 26 Mar 1998 - Changed the /mb site URL
v2.0.2 - 29 Apr 1998 - Changed the /mb site URL again; fixed a few other
errors
v2.0.3 - 8 Dec 1998 - New address, as Avimall site closed down; added European
style CBC Montreal test pattern to heading and background
v2.0.4 - 24 Sep 2000 - Moved Test Pattern site to Geocities, due to Yahoo's
plans to cap Simplenet's basic webspace at 100MB. Also added a link to Andrew
Wiseman's TV Room.
"WMAQ-TV: 1948-1968" on Rich Samuels'
Broadcasting in Chicago, 1921-1989:
Interesting site on the history of radio and TV broadcasting by a retired
veteran reporter.
http://www.mcs.net/~ri
chsam/nbcmm/1968/fadeup.html - NBC WNBQ original test pattern: 1948
http://www.mcs.net/~r
ichsam/nbcmm/1968/fadeup2.html - First NBC color peacock: 1956
"Stay Tuned":
This site is dedicated to the preservation of European test patterns ("testbild"
in German). Steve calls it a "random" site, a good description. Most patterns
may be seen by entering the testbild museum. The sources of the patterns
are not listed but may be guessed from the titles of the image files.
http://www.ping.at/users/
staytuned/program.html
Satellite TV
Page:
Images and test cards gathered from satellites.
ftp://itre.ncsu.edu/pub/satelli
te/images/
TELE-Satellit:
Images and test cards gathered from satellites.
ftp://itre.ncsu.edu/pub/
satellite/TELE-satellit/
Indian test
pattern:
This is the most famous (besides color bars, of course) American test
pattern.
http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/indian.gif
The Meldrum
Home Page:
"Test cards" from British television, and now from around the world, including
the US. Includes cards for all five terrestrial stations. You need a
table-capable browser to view this site. Click on "The Test Card Gallery".
http://www.meldrum.co.uk/mhp/
Andrew Wiseman's
TV Room:
Has everything about the insides and outs of British television, including idents and a few test cards. http://625.simplenet.com/
BBC ftp
Archive:
The famous "Test Card F" from the BBC available in several sizes and formats. ftp://ftp.bbc.co.uk/pub/video/still s/
Mike Brown's
CD Review Page:
Review of a CD containing British TV test card music; has a few pictures,
too, all found on The Meldrum Home
Page.
http://www.radiolink.net/mb/
(Note: this is yet another new URL for /mb. In the future,
if the link is dead, use this redirection URL:
http://welcome.to/mb)
Testcards from
Thomas Bergstam's Homepage:
A Swedish site; a lot of test patterns, some scanned from books; patterns
displayed in a serve-side map format. Note that I have bypassed his
frame-formatted homepage, which has some interesting non-TV stuff
http://www1.canit.se/~thbe/testca
rd.htm
Displaymate:
SONERA Technologies' commercial site has a few free samples to view and download;
test patterns for video equipment and browsers in gif format.
http://www.displaymate.com/patte
rns.html
Loki's LOK-TV
test pattern:
Apparently part of Loki's ideal sci-fi TV schedule; has big color bars for
your browser.
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~loki/tv/testpatn.html
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