RTE TESTCARD MONOCHROME 405-VHF

RTE testcard in monochrome! Those heady old days when co-channel interference blighted a summer evening's television viewing. Flickering screens and bakelite occupied dusty corners of a myriad living rooms. The picture quality may have been a bit lacking but I seem to rememember that the programmes' entertainment values was all the higher. Maby this was because TV itself was in its relative infancy, so that meant that every aspect of the art of broadcasting was fresh by the simple presence the novelty factor. This is a video re-creation of a long lost era. Remember Elephant Boy?...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• RTE
• TESTCARD
• MONOCHROME
• 405
• VHF
• NOSTALGIA
• BLACK
• AND
• WHITE
• IRISH
• BROADCASTING

[millinchip2]

Faker.

You created this video in 2006 using rudimentary video software, and then pass it off as real. It just annoys me having it up here.

[tubedougz]

You should READ the information before being so infcredibly irritable!

Look at the penultimate sentence particularly ...

I will accept a simple "sorry" ...

[tubedougz]

Correct in all respects - except it was set in India and not Africa.

[millinchip2]

It bares no resemblance to anything RTE put out on its 405 line service in the 60s, 70s ot 80s.. Thats why its of no historical value. I beg you, take it down for pitys sake.

[ongchorcool]

damn you!

[TheCaleyman]

@millinchip2 To a UK citizen like myself who's never seen ANY RTE testcard, this will have to suffice until someone somehow comes up with an original. Thank You tubedougs, I had been looking for some old UK testcards when I found this. I was a TV engineer from 1967 until 1990 when I got pissed off with the trade.

[redfire20003]

Good Old Elephant Boy, But my favourite was......................WANDE­RLEY WAGON

[DXTV1]

LOL ... 9 minutes of a testcard :x

This could be part of the german movie "Sun Alley" (Sonnenallee) where two guys from Dresden, Saxony came to Berlin and watched western TV for the very first time ... and they looked at a test card like this above the whole night long...

*rotfl*

[yachttaboo]

Was it Kalanag?

Spelling might no be right but I'm sure that is how he pronounced it.

[anne3362]

Funny! Reception terrible everywhere! I remember Elephant boy too, it really was shown on RTE, thanks for all the funny memories! Anne

[dublinyam]

Crikey! Really feeling my age having stumbled across this somehow. I remember the anticipation as a young lad watching and waiting for something to happen. How things have changed! Thanks for the post