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	Test card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Test patterns used for calibrating or troubleshooting the downstream signal path are nowadays generated by test signal generators, which do not depend on the correct configuration of (and presence of) a camera.
		The most famous British test card is Test Card F which incorporates a colour photograph of Carole Hersee (daughter of BBC engineer George Hersee) playing noughts and crosses with a doll, used on the BBC and ITV from the beginning of colour broadcasts in the late 1960s.
		Test card music became popular in its own right when a group of enthusiasts discovered one another and realised they were not alone in enjoying the music played during the day in the 1950s, 60s and 70s while the test card was broadcast on BBC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_card (1600 words)

	Test Card F - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Test Card F is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture.
		On the updated Test Card J, the 'X' on the noughts-and-crosses board is an indicator for aligning the centre of the screen.
		The card was developed by BBC engineer George Hersee, who died in 2001 at age 76.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_Card_F (351 words)

	Test Card F: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Test card j is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture....
		Test card f was a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture, and due to its use on bbc television for more than...
		Test card w is a test card, an image used to determine the quality of a broadcast television picture....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/test_card_f.htm (1139 words)

	List of BBC test cards - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Test Card B is an early BBC television test card.
		Test Card G was a television test card broadcast occasionally by the BBC.
		Test Card J is an enhanced revision of Test Card F.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/List_of_test_cards (290 words)

	The Test Card FAQ
		Test Card D was the first test card to be produced to an engineering specification in 1964.
		Test Card G still makes an occasional appearance overnight, as can be seen in the Test Card Gallery, and recently an unusual and as yet unidentified test card has appeared on BBC2.
		Test Card F is currently broadcast on BBC2 early on Saturday and Sunday mornings between the end of the Learning Zone and the beginning of programmes.
	www.meldrum.easynet.co.uk /mhp/testcard/faq.html (1144 words)

	Television Test Cards, Tuning Signals, Clocks and Idents
		Of course special test generators were available that could be used to make accurate measurements of the performance of every aspect of the studio and distribution equipment, but again, how useful it would be to have a pattern that could give a rough indication of performance (or lack of it) from camera to screen.
		Test Card W (16:9) that included almost all the features of Test Card F, had the central colour picture digitally remastered from the original colour reversal transparency, and had additional tests required for digital operations.
		The intention was to use Test Card D on 405-lines and Test Card E on 625-lines, but BBC engineers were unhappy with the appearance of the TCE frequency gratings and so this card, which never sported an identification letter, was retained until the start of the colour service in July 1967.
	www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk /Test-Cards#Birth (6822 words)

	A Very Concise History of Test Cards
		Test cards "A" and "B" were only transmitted for a short time during the day, a demonstration film being shown each morning.
		Test Card "C" was more a pattern than a formal specification, and there were a great many versions of it.
		In the early sixties it was recognised that a test card required to be designed and transmitted to a consistent standard, and with the ITA transmitting its version and the BBC transmitting at least three versions, this was not the case.
	tcc.members.beeb.net /tchistory.html (1541 words)

	More than just a pretty face...
		Test Card F has castellations with arrows to enable the dealer to adjust the scan amplitudes and thus ensure that the picture just fills the screen whilst circles remain the correct shape.
		Test Cards D and E are an exception to this, having sinusoidal frequency gratings printed onto the slide.
		Test Card E had a further innovation - instead of a peak white border around the gratings it had one the same brightness as the peak of the sine waves, and each row of gratings started and ended at this brightness level.
	www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk /Test-Cards/Test-Card-Technical.html (12882 words)

	BBC Test Cards
		The replacement for test card E was this, a modified version of Test Card C. It was used on BBC 2 from its birth in 1964 until colour was introduced in 1967 and Test Card F took over.
		This early widescreen Test Card was broadcast by the BBC as part of digital tests on Astra 1D in mid March 1998.
		Test Card J has been broadcast on BBC2, Test Card W was shown on "Have I Got News For You" and on News 24 during the BBC Power Failure on 20th June 2000.
	www.meldrum.co.uk /mhp/testcard/bbc_test.html (1253 words)

	Who was the test card girl? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
		The television test card was a mixture of solid and tinted dots and lines to help television engineers tune a set when a programme was not being broadcast.
		The card featuring a girl is the one that most people would recognise: the smiling face of a youngster, playing noughts and crosses on a flboard with her pink and yellow clown.
		This card is know to aficionados - there are plenty of them - as Test Card F. She was eight-year-old Carol Hersee, whose father George was a BBC engineer.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1088.html (520 words)

	Images of test cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A test card is an image, broadcast to ensure a correct television signal.
		The proposed antenna is a straight F in shape printed on a FR4 substrate together with the rest of the circuit components, providing a low-cost antenna solution.
		The straight F antenna resembles a printed inverted F antenna, but the inductive tuning arm is in the same side of the capacitive arm, resulting in further reduced overall antenna area.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Images_of_test_cards.html (2069 words)

	Test Pass, drug screening, drug cleansing, drug screening tests
		They either use a test card right then for immediate results or send it away to a lab to get tested through a sophisticated gas analyzer.
		Hair testing is quite accurate and can go back 6 months, showing all of the toxins you used in a sort of timeline.
		The first test usually occurs at the point of care facility where the sample is taken.
	www.test-pass.com /Testing_Info.asp (3909 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Test card special
		Test Card F - an eye-baffling arrangement of lines and coloured bars with the photo of Carole Hersee mid-game at its centre - has graced British TV screens since 1967.
		Test Card F has travelled around the world - with some foreign broadcasters choosing to replace Carole with a local child.
		Though Test Card F has been adapted for use in the digital, widescreen age, it is slowly disappearing from our screens thanks to our evolving 24-hour culture and the video recorder.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1282160.stm (1188 words)

	Test Card F: Television, Mythinformation And Social Control by Anonymous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Test Card F is a graphic demolition derby through the culture of a factory farmed and show-shocked society, a society whose sell-by date has long since expired.
		Test Card F joyrides in front of the surveillance cameras, amidst the rubble of a junkyard nation, and heaves television's burnt-out carcass through the plate glass shop window of 'independent' video and 'community access' broadcasting.
		It transcends post modern and situationist analysis in its positive refusal of the concept of Truth Test Card F has no named authors; it originates in the pirate transmissions of the unruly squatters of cyberspace when scheduled programming closes down for the night.
	www.bookcounter.com /big/1-873176-91-0 (300 words)

	On Site Opiate Test Card
		This test is capable of detecting opiates at a cutoff level of 300 ng/ml or higher.
		A study was conducted using morphine-related compounds to determine the cross-reactivity of the test.
		Compounds tested and found not to interfere with the results of the test at 0, or 300 ng/ml morphine in urine.
	www.sdrl.com /services/onsiteopiate.html (1299 words)

	R.T.Russell: Colour Test Card Generator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Colour Test Card Generator is a self-contained hardware unit which stores a test card image (or any still picture) plus four fastext teletext pages, and outputs them as a 625-line baseband PAL composite video signal.
		It is supplied pre-programmed with a colour test card image and informative text pages, but a software program is included (compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000 or XP) which allows the user to reprogram the generator with any image and text pages of his choosing.
		Test Card F is the Copyright © 1967 of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Office of Communications (formerly the Independent Television Commission) and Intellect (formerly the British Radio Equipment Manufacturers' Association).
	www.cix.co.uk /~rrussell/products/tccgen/manual/tcgen0.html (764 words)

	Testcard 'M' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Test Card 'M' is a growing library of DVB, DTG-compliant bitstreams designed to exercise various elements of an MPEG system both individually and simultaneously.
		Derived from an agreed set of requirements from a representative collaboration under the DTG, Test Card 'M' is to be used as the common standard reference to DVB compliant MPEG systems.
		The range of test available with Test Card 'M' is designed to test all elements of a transport stream, including data, audio and video as well as multiplex parameters.
	homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz /julian/ref/web/products/htmlbroc/tesmdesc.html (152 words)

	The Markets: Greeting Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Once you find a card line that appeals to you, write to the company and request its market list, catalog or submission guidelines (usually available for a SASE or a small fee).
		Keep in mind that many companies (especially the large ones) will not review your writing samples until you've signed and returned their disclosure contract or submission agreement, assuring them that your material is original and has not been submitted elsewhere.
		Some companies prefer to test a card first and will pay a small fee for a test card idea.
	www.writersmarket.com /content/greeting_cards2.asp (493 words)

	Not In Production: What's in a test card?
		There are plenty of sites out there with lots of pictures of television test cards.
		While some people have long thought that George Hersee's classic Test Card F was about as perfect a test signal as it was possible to produce using a bunch of lines, some colours and a girl playing noughts and crosses, the digital revolution has changed this.
		The author worked with the BBC R&D department to update F for the digital age, and his detailed account of the pitfalls and problems encountered in creating both a standard 4:3 version (Test Card J) and, more complicatedly, a widescreen version (Test Card W) makes very interesting reading.
	uffish.net /archives/000064.html (330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Any other card number produces a general failure with a "live card used on test system" error message (if the host supports relaying of processor messages).
		The card security code (CSC, also called CVV2 by some processors) is a 3- or 4-digit number that is not part of the credit card number.
		The number appears only on the card itself (not on receipts or statements), and thus provides some assurance that the physical card is in the possession of the buyer.
	www.verisign.com /support/payflow/pro/pfptestprocess.html#test_csc (881 words)

	The Test Pattern List, v2.0.4
		This is the most famous (besides color bars, of course) American test pattern.
		The famous "Test Card F" from the BBC available in several sizes and formats.
		Review of a CD containing British TV test card music; has a few pictures, too, all found on The Meldrum Home Page.
	www.geocities.com /rugratsonline/testpatt (470 words)

	The Test Card Gallery
		Used from the beginning of the BBC until the early seventies, the tuning signal was primarily for viewers to warm up their television sets and adjust the numerous controls until they could see an acceptable picture.
		The Test Cards were for testing of equipment throughout the full chain of transmission.
		From 1955 the ITA, and its successor the IBA used numerous test cards and tuning signals, some were variants of those used by the BBC, others like the classic "Picasso" tuning signal were entirely original.This section shows a selection of them.
	www.meldrum.co.uk /mhp/testcard (402 words)

	Have you seen this girl? \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		There are other test cards used in Scandinavia sans little girls and clowns but I distinctly remember seeing Carol or a girl much like her in Sweden in the early 80s.
		Since Test Card F was used in over 30 countries (according to the sites that reference it) one would assume you did see her in Sweden, dabitch.
		The test card with the Native American I know from the game Fallout (or Fallout 2, or both, can't remember which one has it as one of it's flash screens).
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/39090 (770 words)

	Computer hardware & software pc diagnostics testing & repair tools for pc testing & troubleshooting.
		The card is quite expensive, but if you're testing a lot of ram, or you're a technician troubleshooting systems, this card is well worth the money.
		The tests were run in one of our qualification ovens at exactly 68 degrees F ambient temperature.
		The testing is quite rigorous and, after running at least 5 loops, will identify problems down to the chip and sectors within the chip.
	www.uxd.com /reviews.html (2721 words)

	Works by Young
		The test card is a more inscrutable subject than is a target or a map, but shares similar qualities where form and function seem the same.
		The big difference is that a test pattern is a picture which is a tool that technicians use to make sure the TV is tuned in and set properly.
		You can read more about the BBC's Test Card F at the BBC site, and you can find loads of weird and wonderful information about test patterns, teletext and vintage television at the Meldrum site.
	brennan.young.net /Arts/Arts.html (627 words)

	Datacard® SP55 Card Printer
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		Smart card, magnetic stripe, bar code and proximity options make it easy to create multi-technology IDs that provide authorized users with secure access to facilities, networks and other privileges.
		The design of the Datacard SP55 card printer is based on more than 10 years of market experience, and it anticipates the emerging needs of your card program.
	www.datacard.com /products/products.jhtml?contentId=25708nQwYz5ZF (462 words)

	BBC Test Patterns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The BBC has used a series of test cards identified by letter code (Test Card A, Test Card B, etc).
		Test Card F (First used 1967, this version 1997)
		Test Card G (The BBC's first electronically generated test card)
	www.mediacollege.com /video/test-patterns/television/bbc.html (71 words)

	The Test Pattern & TV Presentation List, v3.0.4
		This is due to the fact that Yahoo's Geocities service has severe bandwidth restrictions (which blocks many sites with no rhyme or reason), plus, of course, the annoying X10 camera ads that may pop up from time-to-time.
		The famous "Test Card F", plus other slides and interstitials from the BBC's past, can be had here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/tv/testcards/index.shtml
		Has everything about the insides and outs of British television, including idents and a few test cards, including the new Testcards J and W. Also, check out the Flash versions of the British TV idents.
	www.rugratonline.com /testpatt (840 words)

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