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Old June 15th 10, 12:53 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Bill R[_4_]
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Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

Bill R


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Old June 15th 10, 01:19 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Andy Burns[_7_]
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Bill R wrote:

Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.


You can download "the" testcard in photoshop format from some deeply
buried part of the BBC commissioning website, but you need to extract it
from within the layers and adjust the colour levels and burn it DVD
yourself.

You didn't mention HD, so if SD is ok, this is useful
http://merifon.altervista.org/TestDVD.html

For more individual test patterns
http://www.w6rz.net/

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Old June 15th 10, 01:37 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Paul D.Smith[_2_]
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"Bill R" wrote in message
...
Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.

Thanks.

Bill R


Some DVDs such as "Toy Story" have set up sections in the "extras" including
test cards etc. Also, it is possible to display a Freeview test card using
a cryptic set of keys on your Freeview remote (see link below).

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/forums/25...-testcard.html

This is only SD of course.

Paul DS

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Old June 15th 10, 01:46 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Andy Burns[_7_]
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Paul D.Smith wrote:

it is possible to display a Freeview
test card using a cryptic set of keys on your Freeview remote

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/forums/25...-testcard.html


But that is a compressed to hell image, which is not displayed
full-frame, but embedded within an MHEG page, so is not guaranteed to
display like a proper in-video test card.

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Old June 15th 10, 04:11 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
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"Bill R" wrote in message
...
Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.


Have you a THX DVD such as Star Wars there are set ups within the extra
features.
Hard to find , click on the THX logo I seem to think that will bring them
up.
Regards
David

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Old June 15th 10, 07:04 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
tony sayer
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In article , David
scribeth thus


"Bill R" wrote in message
...
Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.


Have you a THX DVD such as Star Wars there are set ups within the extra
features.
Hard to find , click on the THX logo I seem to think that will bring them
up.
Regards
David



Haven't this lot got a spare one;?.....

http://www.testcardcircle.org.uk/
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Tony Sayer

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Old June 15th 10, 09:37 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Grimly Curmudgeon
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Bill R"
saying something like:

Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.


Easy to make your own and lob it on disc:
http://www.oodletuz.fsnet.co.uk/soft/tcmaker.htm

Here's some ready made ones:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f...d8eb 2fe32c8a
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Old June 16th 10, 04:20 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Adrian C
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On 15/06/2010 18:04, tony sayer wrote:

Haven't this lot got a spare one;?.....

http://www.testcardcircle.org.uk/


OT just found some test card music on Spotify ...

http://open.spotify.com/artist/0czqZjAUdehMUOg6xIZ3vL

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Old June 16th 10, 04:49 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Andy Burns[_7_]
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Adrian C wrote:

OT just found some test card music on Spotify ...

http://open.spotify.com/artist/0czqZjAUdehMUOg6xIZ3vL


You may as well just post a spotify: URL rather than a http: URL that
redirects, that way anyone who has got spotify can still play it, anyone
without won't waste their time ...

spotify:artist:0czqZjAUdehMUOg6xIZ3vL

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Old June 19th 10, 06:56 PM posted to uk.tech.digital-tv
Kennedy McEwen
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In article , Bill R
writes
Is it possible to download a test card to copy onto a DVD and show if the
television is set up correctly? If so a link to the source would be
appreciated.

What is wrong with the standard Freeview one?
Tune to a BBCi on Ch.105 & wait for all the text to load.
Press "yellow", then tune to any other BBC channel, eg. BBC-1.
Go back to BBCi on Ch.105 & wait for all text to load again.
Press "green": the page should respond with "Secret" on the top right.
Wait for the screen to update with the status page, then press "green"
as instructed at the bottom of the page.
Slightly modified BBC Test Card W should appear within 30sec.
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