What is the name of the screen when you don't have cable, it made up of basic colors and looks like a barcode?
What is the name of the screen when you don’t have cable, it made up of basic colors and looks like a barcode?
As I said before it looks like a barcode, it mainly made up of the colors magenta, turquoise, yellow, pink and black. It comes on whenever the channel is out of service or the signal has gone out.
Best answer:
It’s called a test pattern
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2 Comments for What is the name of the screen when you don't have cable, it made up of basic colors and looks like a barcode?
1. billy | February 26th, 2010 at 7:36 am
if its charter its called the we are bankrupt bar code screen of death
2. P | February 26th, 2010 at 8:17 am
it is also sometimes called “color bars” you can read all about it and why its used here – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_bars
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