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The Test Card Gallery

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:43:47 +0000

The BBC and ITV have over the years used a number of tuning signals, test cards and captions either for engineering purposes, or just to fill time in the days before breakfast and daytime TV. This page shows some of them, and some of the captions used in days past.

Tags: #history #tech #tv #video

Doctor When

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:23:41 +0000

DOCTOR WHO is gone. STAR TREK has reached the end of its cycle. The STARGATE reboot was cancelled. The new STAR WARS film did not do well, and I believe they only have one more film in the pipeline. The MCU is not in a great place and the shape of its future will balance on the two new AVENGERS films. SUPERMAN’s takings were soft and SUPERGIRL is tracking at less than half of SUPERMAN’s opening. And the two biggest films of the last month were made for less than a million each by directors in their twenties. One or two swallows don’t make a summer, but right now it looks like old science fiction inflected IP is reaching a hiatus point.

Tags: #doctorwho #media #scifi #startrek #tv

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Mon, 11 May 2026 21:38:27 +0000

This machinery of niceness reaches points of fracture, but only occasionally. The most infamous was back in September 2016, when Fallon hosted Donald Trump. He sat with the then-candidate, not to interrogate or even lampoon him, but to perform a brief, cozy skit culminating in Fallon mussing Trump’s hair. The moment was not just a lapse in judgment; it was the ultimate, logical end point of the show’s ideological structure.

Tags: #fallon #latenight #politics #trump #tv

seven mary three come back – WIL WHEATON dot NET

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:31:30 +0000

But this is really what I wanted to tell you: I had a rough childhood, with a lot of abuse an exploitation. I was sad and scared most of the time. But whenever you were on my TV, I was happy and I was safe. I loved CHiPs so much. You were the adults I wished I’d had in my life. You guys protected people, you stood up to bullies, and the whole cast felt like a group of people who were always there for each other. I desperately wanted that in my life, and watching CHiPs got me as close to it as I could get. So I really just want to say thank you for your work and for the joyful memories you gave me.

Tags: #celebrities #chips #tv #wilwheaton

Post by @did:plc:krowynl7cikgfdjemlv6dh4i — Bluesky

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:46:19 +0000

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Tags: #hbo #madmen #oops #streaming #tv

Hacking a weird TV censoring device - YouTube

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:22:16 +0000

This video details the meticulous process of reverse-engineering a TV Guardian, a device designed to censor offensive language. The creator analyzes the circuit board, identifying key components and their functions. Data extraction from the ROM chip is achieved using an Arduino and careful manipulation of SPI signals.

Tags: #censorship #gadgets #hacks #retro #tv

replicate/cursedsit.com: The one where we delve in. https://cursedsit.com

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:58:45 +0000

In an era of boundless content, cursedsit.com does not resist consumption; it accelerates it. It loops forever, not to entertain, but to expose the rhythm of our own passive viewing—the trance of comfort, the ache of endlessness. Each generated frame gestures toward human creativity while simultaneously erasing it, offering an uncanny parody of meaning. It is both satire and shrine: a monument to the algorithmic sublime and to the banality it mass-produces.

Tags: #ai #genai #tv #video

Building The DVD Logo Screensaver With LEGO | Hackaday

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:20:27 +0000

There’s something extremely calming and pleasing about watching a screensaver that merely bounces some kind of image around, with the DVD logo screensaver of a DVD player being a good example. The logical conclusion is thus that it would be great to replicate this screensaver in Lego, because it’d be fun and easy. That’s where [Grant Davis]’s life got flipped upside-down, as this turned out to be anything but an easy task in his chosen medium.

Tags: #dvd #lego #nifty #tv

Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is an Escalation in Every Way - The Atlantic

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:11:14 +0000

Of course, mocking the sitting president has long been a cornerstone of pretty much any late-night program throughout the medium’s history. Trump has been the butt of countless jokes over the years. What’s happened to Kimmel is an escalation in every way, a chilling precedent that could have further consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone. How Kimmel himself reacts to the situation will be important—he’s a major celebrity, a multi-time emcee of the Academy Awards who’s been hosting TV shows since the 1990s. There’s a chance network television could become even more reticent to broadcast anything remotely provocative, which in turn could also inspire blowback from their audiences.

Tags: #charliekirk #kimmel #speech #trump #tv #uspolitics

Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke | The Verge

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:20:12 +0000

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.

Tags: #charliekirk #latenight #maga #television #tv #uspolitics

HulkOutList

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:40:27 +0000

Kenny writes..."While directing on JAG I was privileged to work with a brilliant Assistant Director named Kevin Koster. He has an amazing memory. He's able to tell you instantly all the details of every single JAG episode. -- Kevin's also a serious Hulk fan, and he gifted me with this list of EVERY reason that Dr. David Banner was driven to Hulk out. It makes very funny reading. Two of my personal faves have always been #20 & #47.

Tags: #comics #funny #hulk #retro #tv

Jerrold Cable TV Boxes - The Retroist

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:39:27 +0000

How a Simple Cable Box and an Innovative Company Shaped Our TV Experience and Revolutionized an Industry

Tags: #cable #retro #tv

5 Years Later, The Most Ambitious Superhero Show Ever Has Never Been Surpassed

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:49:00 +0000

Highlight:A TV show retconning its entire story in its final moments would seem, on paper, like a creatively frustrating move for viewers — one that runs the risk of invalidating the emotions they'd felt watching its previous episodes. And yet Legion's finale does not elicit frustration or disappointment. Instead, there is something — like David suggests — both mad and graceful about how the show wraps up its story because it chooses to earnestly argue that anyone can change, grow, and improve. "This is the end. The beginning. The end." Five years ago, the most experimental, radical, and underrated superhero show in TV history saved its boldest swerve for its finale.

Tags: #imported:raindrop #legion #marvel #superheroes #tv

The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:24:25 +0000

The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist, is a monument to a time before we took the remote for granted. It also just so happened to contain one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history.

Tags: #engineering #hardware #imported:pinboard #technology #tv #zenith

Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV: Be the First to get a Developer Stick ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:15:42 +0000

The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device.

Tags: #firefoxos #hdmi #imported:pinboard #to:twitter #tv