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Snell & Wilcox SW2 and SW4 "Zone Plate" Test Chart (also referred to as Snell & Wilcox Test Pattern) were TV test cards introduced in the 1990s and used with NTSC, PAL and SDTV systems. [1] Popular versions of the test charts were made available on Laserdisc and DVD-Video, allowing home users and professionals to test and calibrate their equipment.
Test cards typically contain a set of patterns to enable television cameras and receivers to be adjusted to show the picture correctly (see SMPTE color bars).Most modern test cards include a set of calibrated color bars which will produce a characteristic pattern of "dot landings" on a vectorscope, allowing chroma and tint to be precisely adjusted between generations of videotape or network feeds.
The content and layout of the original colour circle pattern was designed by Danish engineer Finn Hendil (1939–2011) [1] in the Philips TV & Test Equipment laboratory in Amager (moved to Brøndby Municipality in 1989) near Copenhagen under supervision of chief engineer Erik Helmer Nielsen in 1966–67, largely building on their previous work ...
A precursor to the SMPTE test pattern was conceived by Norbert D. Larky (1927–2018) [5] [6] and David D. Holmes (1926–2006) [7] [8] of RCA Laboratories and first published in RCA Licensee Bulletin LB-819 on February 7, 1951. U.S. patent 2,742,525 Color Test Pattern Generator (now expired) was awarded on April 17, 1956, to Larky and Holmes. [9]
Experimental broadcasts using the first three prototype versions of the UEIT (one of which was a modification of the Hungarian HTV TR.0782 test card; [9] but all were collectively referred to as UEIT-1) began from the Ostankino Tower transmitter in 1970, with results being used to create the current version of the test pattern.
The content and layout of the pattern, as well as the generator, was designed and made by Danish engineer Finn Hendil (1939–2011) at the Philips TV & Test Equipment laboratory in Amager, south of Copenhagen in 1965–66. [4] It has been used in Australia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, [5] Denmark, [6] Israel, [7] Qatar, and the Netherlands.
The RMA 1946 Resolution Chart was transmitted by NTS and NOS in the Netherlands, SRG SSR in Switzerland, [18] VRT and RTBF in Belgium, RTP in Portugal, TVP in Poland, TVB in Hong Kong, [citation needed] Venevisión in Venezuela (525-lines variant; in conjunction with Indian-head test pattern), [citation needed] WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (525-lines variant) [19] and on low-powered ...