BBC1 | closedown, Test Card F and BBC Select handover | 6th October 1992 | Part 2 of 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ธ.ค. 2024
- © BBC TELEVISION 1992
OK, I know this one is currently on TH-cam twice over already, but this is the most complete recording of this. I tried to combine this and the next BBC Select junction into one clip but my editing software would only allow me to do this if there was a sacrifice in quality. So I preferred to keep the quality and upload it as two separate files.
End of Casablanca
BBC1 trailer: Network
BBC1 trailer: Inside Story
BBC1 slide: Wednesday evening
Weather forecast read by announcer David Miles
BBC1 clock (12:58am): closing announcement
BBC1 virtual globe with national anthem
Black and silence
Black and GLITS tone
Test Card F with tone
Black and silence
BBC Select intro (@ 1:15:35) then scrambling starts
Although this is now 31 years ago then of course, it is so nice to see. 10 out of 10 of course too-thank you!
No way, I remember seeing just the scrambled part as a kid!! Thanks again absolutely excellent to see what it was for..😎❤️
I was Technical Manager on this project, so can answer any questions. The technology, for anyone interseted, was an analogue, line shuffling version of videocrypt, based on 6 x 47 line blocks....
I'm looking for a dvd of Testcard F but it's hard to find. I'm restoring three old crt tv sets.
Any interesting/amusing stories from running the Select service? What was the biggest challenge you had with the project?
do you think this could be used today to scramble to the bbc and make it a subscription service?
I think from memory the first hurdle was the getting regulatory approval to encrypt a public service. The encryption unit itself was housed in the Central Apparatus Room on the 3rd floor of television centre and housed in the equipment rack for BBC 1. I think the encryption was on a schedule rather a trigger from Network Control 1 suite.
I wonder 🤔 how much money 💰 Carol Hersee(Testcard Girl) made from her been famous for appearing on the testcard with the clown. 😂
I remember being woken up very late one night as a kid in the dark to my TV playing the loud beeping noise and as I wasn't used to it I wound up being creeped out 😊
In those days, it felt like the whole world was fast asleep except for me
You fu(king snowflake best tune ever
I would have been 17 then and I still find it creepy till this day
The great eerie sound of the BBC testcard beeps...can't beat it! 😆😁
*X marks the centre spot apparently on the testcard. 🤔 😂
When this aired I would have been in bed for 3 hours and getting up at 8am on 6th October 1992 for another day at Comprehensive School. LOL.
I'd just left in the July that year. Started college in the September that year.
Thank you so much-nice to see Test Card F for sure!!
I remember once getting up one and inadvertently putting this on thinking summat was wrong with the telly, I was going to shout my Mum or Dad, but Ch4 & ITV were working fine. 🤭
If you can, please keep hold of the original VHS of this or at least a 1:1 digital copy...
There's data that your VHS could have recorded that can be used to understand and rebuild encoding/decoding functionality for the encryption used on Select, and there is a couple communities out there focused on just that.
You can see the data squashed partially into view at the very top of the image (the static looking stuff) since Select had no choice but to put it in the "overscan" area or cut out Teletext/Ceefax, which wasn't done presumably because it wasn't allowed/decided against!
I never keep VHS tapes unless it’s something particularly special to me. This one wasn’t kept. I do have it as an MP4 file at full 768x576 resolution though the nitrate is probably lower as it’s not professional capturing software. The full resolution files still look much better than the version after TH-cam compresses it.
ABSOLUTE BANGER.
BBC Select tune was class!
The test card tone was a banger lol
This is better than Love Island
It TRULY is
Yes it is
YES IT is
Static would be better than that televisual effluent.
😅🤣
BBC tried to make this as subscription service and failed and they did lose alot of money as no one bought their special decoder....
Yup, that’s John Birt’s running (ruining) of the BBC, for ya!
The test card played for quite a few years. I was in my late teens by this date, and I remember this test card being shown when I was a little girl. That clown thing always used to creep me out 😂😂
The Test Card used to bug me as a kid with the mono tone and I hated that it was used during ceefax pages from time to time if music was played it was a bit more enjoyable and better to watch
You are so right-it was better to watch for sure-thank you!!
@@brucedanton3669 I though so too
it was creep when it used to change from the ceefax pages to the test card
@@SandraLee-mz2yy That was the norm back in those fays
A handover is when the continuity announcer says something like "Well, that's it from BBC1 for tonight. Now it's time for BBC Select." An hour of the Test Card in between hardly counts as a "handover"!
No, a handover is where a channel hands over to another channel, regardless of whether the announcer mentions it or not.
They’re still handing over from BBC1 to BBC Select, even if there is an hour of testcard separating them.
Was it ever mentioned in TV listings? 🤔 If not, then I suppose you could argue it was a ghost programme although, they used to advertise the service in trailers.
I am not sure there though. Test Card F was not mentioned at all ever, from what I can remember; so who knows of course?@@Sheffield_Steve
@@Sheffield_Steve BBC Select was mentioned in the TV listings, as the genome bbc project shows it on Radio times listings. It was also shown on Ceefax, and there was a dedicated page on Ceefax for BBC Select. Not all programmes were scrambled. RCN Nursing update, VCTV, were examples of free to air BBC Select transmissions.
Sone of these comments are so funny
Most of the programmes aired during the BBC Select slot were scrambled.
I sadly can’t play the video
Works fine for me.
Miss this. The world used to make sense.
A key part of the current craziness was hiding in plain sight in that seemingly innocent image. The "Test Card Girl '" is a boy in a wig. There's more. It's explained in a video called Hidden Meaning Of Test Card F
Ah the classic BBC closedown with the national anthem and the famous testcard and it's eerie beeps. 😆 😂
Came to an end 🔚 when the BBC launched it's news 🗞️ 24 channel in the late 90s.
*I wonder 🤔 who won that game 🎯 of noughts and crosses on the testcard?!? 😂
Remember X marks the spot! 😆
IAM SWAPNO
What??
真的假的