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What happens when my probably neurospicy mind watches too much @mattstvbarn? I spend way too much time studying and restoring test cards, and use them to explain things like: resizing algorithms, gamma correction, color management, and various trivia from the age of analog television. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:00 What makes a test card 6:59 So, you want the BBC test cards... 11:27 Fine, I'll do it myself 13:39 Recreating the recreations 21:11 Color is complicated 23:44 Brightness is complicated, too 26:11 Recreating the electronic test cards 31:16 What can I do with these? Get my recreated test cards using this repo: https://github.com/kFYatek/bbc-testcards Sources and references: https://youtu.be/0vaM3o4v_2o https://youtu.be/3VldJefUNWY https://youtu.be/3lAd0v6fXn0 https://youtu.be/CDUrpPvU1_4 https://youtu.be/NSg-i_cyJHQ https://youtu.be/O3r-PkWnZHs https://youtu.be/RXGCCNJ7Tis https://youtu.be/XgfvagX5Fwc https://youtu.be/YVTmLeinO_I https://youtu.be/bqOodLWSI5g https://youtu.be/fSy58QhgFfM https://youtu.be/g850bvgheEY https://youtu.be/oaYe1eLFCxw https://youtu.be/qqnTEOviqsQ https://youtu.be/ucVB2dOlDlM https://youtu.be/v8-2h4UQYXk https://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash2.htm https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/adv7170_7171.pdf https://archive.org/details/BBC-Domesday-AIV-LaserDisc-DD86-Disc-Set-1 https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.barney-wol.net/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/qMbd1ZtNRvmY17T6qwh47Q https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/a_christmas_present_from_the_h.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/470cf103-09f3-3946-b250-b7554288f01d https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/classic/testcard.shtml https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00141gd https://bbcbasic.blogspot.com/ https://bbcbasic.co.uk/tccgen/tccgen.html https://colorbase.com/profile-search/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIE_1931_Luminosity.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pal_channel.svg https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=942385&page=4 https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298283 https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=1332 https://www.eizo.be/monitor-test/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_profile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoscope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampling_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_circle_pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Card_F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%E2%80%B2UV https://frank.pocnet.net/other/sos/Philips_PM5544_PM3400_Publication.pdf https://github.com/BritishAmateurTelevisionClub/vidsource/blob/main/tcf720.jpg https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode-testdata https://github.com/inaxeon/PTV_Preservation/blob/main/PM5534/Docs/Manual.pdf https://github.com/inaxeon/TvEquipmentPreservation https://github.com/Jaded-Encoding-Thaumaturgy/vapoursynth-descale https://github.com/KarstenHervoeHansen/PTV/blob/main/PT5230/Back-up_PTV_brandskab/PT5210_5230%20generator%20sw/PT8633/Disk%201/CHAN33.ZIP https://github.com/KarstenHervoeHansen/PTV/blob/main/PT5230/PT8633/video_data/8633vid_dat.zip http://handle.itu.int/11.1004/020.1000/4.277.43.en.1006 http://handle.itu.int/11.1004/020.1000/4.282.43.en.1014 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112107659119 https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/lip-sync-issue.10905/page-4 https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.470-6-199811-S https://www.itu.int/rec/r-rec-bt.601 https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.1701 https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.1886-0-201103-I https://www.lddb.com/ https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/create-and-compare-resizing-interpolation-kernels.html https://www.oldtechnology.net/colour.html https://www.oldtechnology.net/documentation.html https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/ http://www.quinkyart.com/2010/03/evil-test-card-clown.html https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/r103 https://tftcentral.co.uk/icc-profiles-and-monitor-calibration-settings-database https://tvark.org/bbc1-testcard-4 https://tvark.org/branding/bbc/bbc-tv/bbc-tv-1936 https://tvark.org/features/testcards/bbc-testcards http://wiki.opalvoip.org/index.php?n=Main.TestSequences https://zerie.itch.io/tiny-rpg-character-asset-pack Sources and references without links: - Antiques Roadshow: 100 Years of the BBC - BBC One, October 23rd, 2022 - Arena - Slim Gaillard's Civilisation: Everything's OK in the UK, directed by Anthony Wall, BBC 1989 - Avengers: Age of Ultron, dir. Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios 2015 - End of Part One, episode 3, created by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, ITV 1979 Title and background music by myself