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Does anybody know where i can download a HD test card so i can calibate my television. Hit "All Sizes" and download the Original size, stick it somewhere on your network and you can output it from your xbox or PS3, etc. Can somone please let me know how i would calibate my television using any of the above, or are they no good for my LE32R88BD?
I will use my xbox which is connected by HDMI to play the samples. If possible i like to get hold of the HD video sample so i can follow the instructions in the BBC blog i posted earlier but cant find the video anywhere on the net. I'd suggest that it's much better to calibrate from the source that you're actually going to be watching.
I'm very happy with the results I achieved using the above method. HTH Brian. For those on FreeView follow these steps - untested! I dont have FreeView so i've been unable to test this. I was immediately hooked on Test Card Music for life! I should perhaps say at this stage why I am not including ITA test card music in these articles.
As they used commercially available records it was quite possible to nip down to the local shop and buy them; not so in the case of the BBC tapes. Library music in this context means music recorded outside the country in which it is to be broadcast and NOT available to the general public. Therefore the BBC music was otherwise unobtainable and to me therefore, very special. Almost every style of music imaginable plus some unimaginable!
It has all had a great effect on my career to as a professional musician; the musical arrangements on the whole were absolutely first class and being exposed to this at an early age meant that time was not wasted on the more banal aspects of pop music.
Also featured were many fine classical works such as the Hungarian Dances by Brahms; Symphony no. In fact, the first actual tapes came into service in September Some of these ran for some forty minutes whereas others were only a little over a quarter of a hour.
With the introduction of later tapes in January came the famous BBC signal the musical notes B, B and C every one, two, three or four tracks. In those days each tape began with the BBC signal followed by a 5 second pause before the music began.
Again, what made the trade test music so special was the tremendous variety of material used, from Beethoven's German Dances to Van Heusen's Darn That Dream to a little oddity called Scrub, Brothers, Scrub! Called La Gavroche, I am at a loss to understand what the connection is between a Parisian Urchin and dogs barking! Maybe someone can help?? The other opened with four rather be-boppy numbers by Bobby Gutesha starting with the slightly dissonant Binokel.
This tape featured one of the very few vocals since the tapes were brought into service with a number called Rio Cha Cha Cha. Again we had some lovely classical tapes as well as a good mixture of light and novelty numbers. Add together a slightly out-of-tune violin, a wonky baritone sax and an outrageous sense of fun and you have a real treat. There were two other tracks on this same tape which sounded a bit like the Temperance Seven I know it was not actually them but sadly I do not have any information other than the possibility that the one piece is called Charleston Parisienne and that they arc BOTH a scream!
If you read my last article you will have followed the history of 78 rpm gramophone records through to the first tapes used with Test Card C. Now we pick up the story from Well, I have to confess that we did not acquire a BBC2 set until so my collection of recordings does not feature any early BBC2 music.
Again, all these tapes as well as the ones over on the newly-christened BBC1 were 30 minutes in duration but the opening BBC signal had been dropped. It was also at this time an absolute classic of a tape had its first airing on BBC1 from the great veteran of contributors to test card tapes, the Frenchman Roger Roger. This started with Asia Minor and featured many splendid 20th century style classical compositions by the man himself. The tape was so good, after it had been discontinued the BBC decided to give it another run in !
The test card music saw the introduction of the colour service on BBC2 in and BBC1 in without so much as a murmur, and still going strong. I would dearly love a copy of this. I should give a mention to the part of Trade Test Transmissions which irritated many a potential collector of test card music recordings, the tone.
This was in fact the most useful part from the engineer's point of view sound-wise although it did mean the tapes were very rarely played to the end. The tone would be transmitted for four minutes followed by one minute of silence every twenty five minutes whereas the trade tapes lasted for thirty minutes. You had to catch them in a really good mood if you wanted to record the tapes right to the end.
A change in tape speed at the BBC from 15 i. All in one go! It was quite confusing at first especially as the tone was now being transmitted every fifteen minutes; it was very hard to work out where one tape ended and the next began. Still, all good stuff, plenty of variety! These hour long tapes will be discussed in the final and third part, covering when trade test transmissions were officially discontinued. In the last article we arrived at the stage where a reduction in tape speed at the BBC from 15 i.
Although it was sad to see the end of the half-hour tapes as the format had stood the test of time, the new tapes were certainly very varied and exciting. All of a sudden there was a new system to get the hang of, and loads of lovely new recordings to make. It was decided that as there were colour programmes shown throughout the day on one or other channel the time available for transmission of the test card had been reduced. So, it was agreed with the TV trade that the available time on BBC2 would now be filled with the test card and service information announcements.
These would now be at 4.
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