A 2015 16x9 HDTV enhanced version for those who like it big and wide. Ripping apart the standard NTSC analog color bar signal. The NTSC color bar reference signal is distorted by attacking ... See full summary
Color Bar Experience (2015) Online
A 2015 16x9 HDTV enhanced version for those who like it big and wide. Ripping apart the standard NTSC analog color bar signal. The NTSC color bar reference signal is distorted by attacking the horizontal and vertical blanking sync timing signals using a time base corrector. The resulting color bar chaos was rephotographed off a monitor since the video itself was too unstable to record directly to tape. This short video art piece was inspired by the 'color tuning guide channel' that American Cablevision included in its channel lineup in the 1980s. The odd thing about the 'color tuning guide', which was the typical NTSC color bar display, was that the average cable subscriber was not likely to know how the reference colors were supposed to look. Were any of them television broadcast engineers? So how would they know if the color display they saw at home on their sets was correct? How useless! So here is my Color Bars, which is my version of 'your color tuning guide cable channel'. ...