Static (according to a digital television tuner)

[MindCaged]

Uhm interesting I guess. I wonder if you might be able to help me. I have trouble with the "no signal" screen on a LCD tv, my dad has a large collection of old video tapes, but when playing the tape if there is /any/ significant amount of static or jumpyness to the picture, it cuts to a black "no signal" screen. Which also makes it impossible to adjust the tracking or anything except blindly. I was thinking maybe dub them to DVD, but it might just record the static and have the same problem.

[lucasxp321]

INCRÍVEL.

[NeoAmsterdam]

That is correct: there is no sound.

Audio noise generated in any audio editor will pass for the real thing, but video noise does not. That is why I uploaded this video without audio.

[KakaffStudios]

Reason with the black screen saying "no signal" is probably to not wear out the pixels as much.

[MOXWELLDIAMOND]

Can't convert this to MP4, only comes out as .FLV.....dammit.

[genocidepv]

this is too heavy almost 360 MB O__o

but thanks :)

[RobloxiaVideos]

Perfect i can use these for my bloopers! Thanks!

[JanieMayhem]

could I use this in one of my videos?

[NeoAmsterdam]

Go right ahead. Attribution would be nice, but it's not required.

[JanieMayhem]

thanks

[dralban96]

i cant download it!

[Plomomedia]

this is really cool. can I use it as a layer and credit you?

[NeoAmsterdam]

Go right ahead.

[Sidepocket2600]

Very interesting! I'll bring this up at the next meeting.

[themediashow]

This is *incredibly* wonky, Neo, and brilliant. You just have to be an insatiable cuss to want to do something like this.

Is it really "digital" though if it's an analog channel? Enlighten mah ignorant self.

[NeoAmsterdam]

[EDITED]

First off, ignorant you are not for the ignorant do not question !-)

As to your question, I would say that the answer is "yes". Here is why I think so: All of the radio spectrum (including the channels set aside for television) suffer from interference, be it from natural sources (background radiation) or artificial (jamming). Since old channel 37 is a no-man's land, the interference is guaranteed to be natural in origin.

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[NeoAmsterdam]

Now, if it should happen that this naturally-random (oxymoron?) signal is intelligible enough for a digital tuner to understand, then it is indeed a digital signal by virtue of the tuner's own stringent (elecromechanical? algorithmic?) definition of what a valid digital signal is.

That's how I cam to the conclusion that it's a bona fide digital signal transmitted over an analog channel.

[RobTFirefly]

This is frankly awesome. Nicely done!