Don Pearce wrote:

Geoff Mackenzie wrote:
A few days ago someone posted info on finding the BBC Test Card (sorry,
deleted OP).

Would have been handy a couple of weeks earlier, when I was discussing
with a retailer the fact that my new Toshiba recorder had lousy
definition and distortion. Resolved satisfactorily once I got to an
engineer ("Yeah, software problem, we get loads back") rather than a
salesman ("No, Sir, they never go wrong").

Question - why on earth is it so difficult to find this "hidden" test
card? Much discussion around my learned friends at the Rat and
Gynaecologist (local pub, we thought the original name was silly) came
up with the rather weak possibility that punters with TV sets might be
tempted to fiddle with settings and do damage, thus leaving the BBC open
to lawsuits. Surely not? Any better ideas?

Easy. If everybody could watch it, nobody would bother with any of the
real programmes. For production values, plot, dialogue, action it has
them all well beaten.

Hardly difficult when ''competing' with Eastenders.

Graham