BBC Test Card

Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

On 6 Jan, 14:29, wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. *Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? *My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

I found this. Hope it helps

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbccouk/with/3113496392/

wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

It's that big Test Card looking thing on http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

You could use a computer with an SVideo or Composite output or a games
machine/media player to display it onscreen but it wouldn't be worth it.
It is really for people with HD displays who can connect a computer by
vga/DVI/HDMI or the few TVs that will display pictures from plug-in devices.

JR wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

It's that big Test Card looking thing on http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

You could use a computer with an SVideo or Composite output or a games
machine/media player to display it onscreen but it wouldn't be worth it.
It is really for people with HD displays who can connect a computer by
vga/DVI/HDMI or the few TVs that will display pictures from plug-in
devices.

Sorry - it appears I was being a little too flippant. A quick scan of
the article would appear to indicate that whilst you can download a not
very high res picture from the link above, the actual test card is
transmitted over the BBC HD service.

JR wrote in :

JR wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I
cannot seem to!

It's that big Test Card looking thing on http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions
of newer sets.

Thanks.

John

You could use a computer with an SVideo or Composite output or a
games machine/media player to display it onscreen but it wouldn't be
worth it. It is really for people with HD displays who can connect a
computer by vga/DVI/HDMI or the few TVs that will display pictures
from plug-in devices.

Sorry - it appears I was being a little too flippant. A quick scan of
the article would appear to indicate that whilst you can download a
not very high res picture from the link above, the actual test card is
transmitted over the BBC HD service.


A full quality image of Test Card W is available at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/16x9.zip

You can open the PSD file in "The Gimp" or PhotoShop and remove the
extraneous layers if you want the test card.

There is a 14x9 version at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tvbranding/14x9.zip

The page which gives a lot of detail on Picture Size is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/t...turesize.shtml

regards
Peter

I think this is where we came in..
It was interesting to hear on LBC the other night, people waxing lyrical
about the test cards of the past. You know, I preferred test card c or d.
Test card F of course apparently scared some people, who were worried by
clowns.

Today surely, a test sequence is what would be needed to test things like
what happens on fast moving objects and near black levels on lcds etc.
Besides, can you imagine the shop left on the test card on a plasma for a
couple of weeks, then finding the image burnt in?

Brian

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JR wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

It's that big Test Card looking thing on http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

You could use a computer with an SVideo or Composite output or a games
machine/media player to display it onscreen but it wouldn't be worth it.
It is really for people with HD displays who can connect a computer by
vga/DVI/HDMI or the few TVs that will display pictures from plug-in
devices.

Sorry - it appears I was being a little too flippant. A quick scan of the
article would appear to indicate that whilst you can download a not very
high res picture from the link above, the actual test card is transmitted
over the BBC HD service.

"JR" wrote in message
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JR wrote:
wrote:
Hi All,

I read in a newspaper yesterday that the BBC was making its famous
Carol Hershee test card available for download for people to set up
their new HD TVs. Can anyone find it on the BBC website, as I cannot
seem to!

It's that big Test Card looking thing on http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Incidentally, having downloaded it, say to a USB portable storage
device, how would it then be put on the screen? My TV (CRT) is five
or more years old, so I do not know the capabilities and functions of
newer sets.

Thanks.

John

You could use a computer with an SVideo or Composite output or a games
machine/media player to display it onscreen but it wouldn't be worth it.
It is really for people with HD displays who can connect a computer by
vga/DVI/HDMI or the few TVs that will display pictures from plug-in
devices.

Sorry - it appears I was being a little too flippant. A quick scan of the
article would appear to indicate that whilst you can download a not very
high res picture from the link above, the actual test card is transmitted
over the BBC HD service.


I have at last managed to record a copy of this test card on my PC, and it
would appear to display well, using Dbviewer.
If I view the same file with VLC I get artefacts.

What amuses me about the BBC HD preview is that it also includes a display
where you can check the sound syncronization. Don't recall much need for
that it the past!

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Michael Chare

Michael Chare wrote:

What amuses me about the BBC HD preview is that it also includes a
display where you can check the sound syncronization. Don't recall much
need for that it the past!

Maintaining Audio/Video synchronisation has over the last 10-15 years become
an increasing complex process within broadcasters' studio centres etc, so it's
only fair that some of that grief is given to the home consumer to solve :-)


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Some of my friends have this sound vision problem when they convert one
format to another on a computer. I of course these days have no such worries
so there is always a plus side to anything.
Brian

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Michael Chare wrote:

What amuses me about the BBC HD preview is that it also includes a
display where you can check the sound syncronization. Don't recall much
need for that it the past!

Maintaining Audio/Video synchronisation has over the last 10-15 years
become an increasing complex process within broadcasters' studio centres
etc, so it's only fair that some of that grief is given to the home
consumer to solve :-)


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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Michael Chare wrote:

What amuses me about the BBC HD preview is that it also includes a
display where you can check the sound syncronization. Don't recall much
need for that it the past!

Maintaining Audio/Video synchronisation has over the last 10-15 years
become an increasing complex process within broadcasters' studio centres
etc, so it's only fair that some of that grief is given to the home
consumer to solve :-)

Interesting blog by the person in charge of the project I was looking at
last night.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...rom_the_h.html
about a quarter of the way through heading "Audio and video sync"

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Graham.

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