Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for April 07, 2022

With digital TVs these days after analogue TVs having gone obsolete, what’s a “test pattern”?

Boy, is this one anachronistic. I remember test patterns…

Linus is insane.

I used to watch test patterns as a toddler when I couldn’t sleep after midnight. Usually worked. Later as a grade schooler (when I’d have a transistor radio tucked under my pillow), it would be test tones from stations that had signed off at midnight. White noise in both cases.

Now that I’m an adult, it’s the Drone Zone ambient music channel on SomaFM.com.

When I was young, about midnight or so the programs would end, the Star Spangled Banner would play, and then a test pattern would come on and stay on until programs began about 6 AM. Opinion: Do not think infomercials are any better! Actually annoying!

“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Test Patterns — But Were Afraid to Ask”

https://youtu.be/pppSyVgf0LM

They’re nowhere as testy as his elder sister!

If you enjoy test patterns, you might like this site: http://www.tv-signoffs.com/

I remember that show! Not often though. Parents usually put me to bed before then.

I remember our test pattern. It was an Indian Chief.

And the test patterns were actually used to set up TVs

Is that Ed Sullivan?

You couldn’t use a test pattern these days on an OLED TV. It’d burn in the image. Ah technology!

Ah, the good old days. Does anyone remember when AM radio stations had to reduce power at sunset? (It was because of atmospheric skip causing interference at distant locations)

Very smart kid. Most intelligent thing on TV…..

That constant sound was enough to drive a person nuts.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article260125495.html

I understood that reference.