I kind of miss actual TV static, it was a reflection of the cosmic microwave background radiation and truly random if anything in this universe can be.
Nowadays when people want to imitate static for a visual style, it’s always like a crisp QR pattern of semi repeating pixels.
OTA TV stations used to have an end to their broadcast day, and they’d play the national anthem before going to color bars until morning.
Or just static
I kind of miss actual TV static, it was a reflection of the cosmic microwave background radiation and truly random if anything in this universe can be. Nowadays when people want to imitate static for a visual style, it’s always like a crisp QR pattern of semi repeating pixels.
and I’m like ‘It doesn’t look like that at all!’
I even lived through the end of that period and sometimes wonder if I hallucinated it lol.
Like, a channel can even go off the air? Why?
Now we’d find that kind of thing creepy and call it “analog horror” maybe. XD