While most countries have switched to digital broadcasting, and most broadcasts themselves have programming on 24/7 now, it’s hard to remember the ancient times of analog broadcasts that would ...

Before streaming and 24/7 programming, there was a time when TV stations actually signed off for the night. Yeah, unbelievable. You'd be watching a late movie or dozing through infomercials, and then, ...

Are you old enough to remember growing up with no more than three or four TV stations to watch…and something called a test pattern when the stations were not broadcasting? Yes, TV actually signed off ...

The picture on a TV set used to be the combined product of multiple analog systems, and since TVs had no internal diagnostics, the only way to know things were adjusted properly was to see for ...

TV has come a long way since the test-pattern days ONE dark night in 1949 I was rolling slowly along Shepherd Drive, near the Westheimer intersection, when my eye was drawn to a curious sight. A small ...

Ironically the color has faded for this film. The SMPTE Color Television Test (1965) film serves two main purposes: it helps in achieving color balance for color television transmission and allows for ...